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Flour of England, Fruit of Spain

For Teachers K - 3rd
Pupils are shown an "Old Mother Twitchett" poster, and they review the riddle. They are introduced to "Flour of England" by viewing a poster. Students are asked if they have ever watched someone in their families bake a pie or cake. They...
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Jack And Jill

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students engage in a lesson that is concerned with the reading of "Jack and Jill" with the help of a poster to set the context for class activities like discussion. They read the story and fill in the blanks for the words that are...
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Jack Be Nimble

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Learners are introduced to "Jack Be Nimble" poster. They are asked what the boy, whose name is Jack, is doing. Students are told that jumping over a lighted candle was a game that used to be played in a country called England.
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Higglety, Pigglety, Pop

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students engage in a lesson that is about the concept of reading comprehension while practicing the reading with the help of the teacher. They read the story focusing upon the rhyming words that could be used for vocabulary.
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Hickory Dickory Dock

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Studentsa introduced to a new rhyme, "Hickory Dickory Dock," they view a poster. They fockus on the picture on the top of the page, students are asked how many of them have seen a grandfather clock before? Students are told that...
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There Was an Owl Lived in an Oak

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Learners are introduced to ""There Was an Owl" poster. They are asked to tell who or what the owl in the tree is looking at. Students look at the man in the corner. They are asked what they would call someone who goes to hunt.
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Rhyme In Time

For Teachers All
Students engage in a lesson that is concerned with the concept of rhyming and recognize them in different pieces of literature that includes songs, speech, and poetry. They also listen to music to make an auditory connection to the concept.
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Teaching Poetic Devices

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners identify and analyze the poetic devices of alliteration, metaphors, onomatopoeia, personification, rhyme, and similes. They identify examples of each poetic device in songs, complete a worksheet, and teach the devices to a...
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Create a Poem

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students write three simple rhyming poems and read them aloud with rhythm. Students select two adjectives that are opposites and two rhyming verbs to create rhyming lines of the same length with an adjective-noun-verb pattern.
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"Quack Said the Billy-goat"

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders read the poem together, "Quack Said the Billy-goat" and discuss what makes the poem funny and which words rhyme. They observe the teacher writing a new first verse, changing some of the text, but leaving the original rhyme...
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Phonological Awareness and Rhyming

For Teachers K
Students listen to a story and chime whenever they hear rhyming word pairs. Students generate other rhyming words that rhyme with each pair from the story. Students draw and/or paint illustrations to go along with a rhyming song given....
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Marriage of Visual and Thematic Aspects of Herbert's Poetry

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders describe the relationship between the visual aspects of "Easter Wings" and the poem's subject, and theorize about the poet George Herbert's motivations in constructing the poem this way. They demonstrate their ability to...
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Queen Anna Banana's Fruit Group

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders participate in activities focusing on the fruit group and rhyming words.
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Geo Jammin' - Day 2, Lesson 6: Rhyme and Reason

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students listen to the poem "Shapes" by Shel Silverstein in order to accurately and specifically describe shapes' rules/traits in their journals. They illustrate the poem and take turns reading during a creative shared reading session.
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Final Phoneme CK

For Teachers K - 1st
Students discuss types of rhyme and identify the words in a poem that end in ck. They write their own stories about a mouse and his amazing adventure.
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Rhythm and Rhyme

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students listen to and identify the similar rhyme pattern of two rhymes and apply those concepts to a group creation of a new rhyme. They discover that the given rhyme comes from India by learning a little background information on India.
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Rhythm and Rhyme

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Learners compare the given rhyme to another rhyme that they already know (I Know An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Fly). Students listen and identify the similar rhyme pattern of the two rhymes and apply those concepts to a group creation of...
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Telling the Stories the Past Tells Us

For Teachers 4th - 9th
Students create historical stories based on factual evidence. For this Telling the Stories the Past Tells Us lesson, students write historical stories using strategies such as characters, plot, setting, and voice. Students analyze...
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Rhyming Reading

For Students K - 1st
In this rhyming pictures worksheet, students study the pictures and say them aloud. Students then circle the picture in each column whose name rhymes with the first picture.
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Rhyme Time

For Students 3rd - 4th
For this rhyming worksheet, students find the pairs of words that rhyme. Students then write the rhyming words into the sentences. Students write their own sentences with the second set of rhyming words.
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Snowflake Fun

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
In this snowflakes fun worksheet, students identify and read about 5 different snowflakes illustrated on the sheet. First, they cut out each of the snowflakes on the rectangles where indicated to make finger puppets. Then, students use...
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I Can Rhyme

For Students 1st
In this language arts worksheet, 1st graders think of words that rhyme with each underlined word. Then they write as many as they can on the lines provide for each of the four words.
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Write a Story or Poem in Rhyme

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this hat shaped rhyming worksheet, students write a story or poem in rhyme. They realize that Dr. Seuss books are written in rhyme before attempting the writing on their own.
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Sing, Sing, What Shall I Sing?

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students view "Baby and I Were Baked in a Pie" and "Rain, Rain, Go Away" posters on the board. They also view "Sing, Sing, What Shall I sing?" poster, students are shown the cat playing with the ball of string. Students are asked if...