Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Identify and Create Rhyming Words

For Teachers K
Students discuss rhyming word families and read stories that present those families in rhyme. They generate rhyming words, manipulate sentence strips to pair rhymes and sort pictures of rhyming words.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Identifying Sounds of Poetry

For Students 5th - 8th
In this poetry worksheet, learners read different poetry and identify the type of poetry that is being used based on the sound. Students complete 10 short answer questions.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Fifty States In Rhyme

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Students perform "Fifty States in Rhyme" with correct posture, correct rhythms, and accurate pitches. They also identify and perform such musical terms as tone color, tempo, dynamics, phrases, and accents. Emphasis is placed on the...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Rock N Rhythm & Rhyme (Part One)

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students make flip books of rhyming words and match words together that are on cards. In this rhyming lesson plan, students read books and read individual words to identify rhyming words.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Time to Rhyme

For Teachers K - 1st
Pupils use phonograms to create pairs of rhyming words. After a discussion of nursery rhymes, students listen to an oral reading of "The Cat In The Hat." Through matching activities, they identify rhyming pairs and create their own...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Subtraction Rhyme

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students study a rhyme for subtracting with regrouping from 10's to 1's.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Teaching Poetic Devices

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers 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...
Worksheet
Curated OER

Rhyme Time - Ending-ary

For Students 4th - 8th
In this grammar worksheet, students identify and locate vocabulary terms ending in the /ary/ sound and/or spelling. There are 54 words located in the word search.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Metric Rhyme

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Young scholars identify various units of measurement. In this measurement lesson, students learn several chants that combine metric vocabulary words and actions to reinforce the concepts learned.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Word Family Jamboree

For Teachers K
Students explore rhyming words, beginning and ending sounds. For this word family lesson, students identify beginning and ending sounds. Students draw pictures of words and use phonetic spellings to write stories. Students use Dr. Seuss...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Scrambled Eggs Super!

For Teachers K - 1st
Students study rhythm and rhyme. In this rhyming lesson, students read Scrambled Eggs Super! by Dr. Seuss. Students explore the rhythm of rhyming words found in the book. The students decorate eggs and place rhyming words inside to use...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Low and High with Ives

For Teachers 1st
First graders read the Poem "The Elephant" by Shel Silverstein and create a descriptive web in the shape of an animal. In this cross curricular music lesson plan, 1st graders recite a poem with rhythm, then listen to the song...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Lesson Plan for Granny Will Your Dog Bite and Other Mountain Rhymes

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders practice choral reading of poetry.  In this creative literature instructional activity, 6th graders incorporate elements of performing arts into their choral readings of various poems.  They discuss musical...
Lesson Plan
2
2
Curated OER

The Poetics of Hip Hop

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
The Bard, Nikki Giovanni, Mos Def? “Sonnet 18,” Ego Tripping,” and “Black on Both Sides”? Sure! It’s the poetics. Class members compare the lyrics, rhythm, and rhyme in classic poetry to hip-hop in a richly detailed resource that...
Lesson Plan
1
1
Curated OER

Mouse Mess

For Teachers K
Scholars practice rhyming and phonemic awareness using trade books and poetry. They will listen to the book Mouse Mess several times throughout the week, identifying rhyming words, and matching words that begin with the same sound. Then...
Activity
1
1
Kelly's Kindergarten

June Daily Activities

For Students K - 1st Standards
This is an absolute must-have resource for early elementary teachers! Here you'll find a collection of activities and worksheets for each day of the month of June, with topics ranging from ordering numbers on a calendar or identifying...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Scrambled Eggs Super!

For Teachers K - 1st
Students explore the concept of rhyming words.  In this rhyming word activity, students decorate eggs and place words inside the eggs.  Students use the eggs to play a rhyming word concentration game. 
Worksheet
Curated OER

Valentine, Valentine

For Students K - 2nd
In this rhyming worksheet, students listen sentences about Valentine's Day. Using their listening and language skills, students identify the rhyming words that belong in 9 blanks. Students may also color the hearts on the coloring sheet.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

How To Identify Figurative Language

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students investigate writing techniques by analyzing a chart. In this figurative language lesson, students define similes, metaphors and identify the difference between them and personification. Students demonstrate their understanding...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Musical Poetry

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners analyze lyrics of their favorite songs as examples of alliteration, metaphor, Onomatopoeia, personification, rhyme, and simile to determine the purpose of these devices in poetry. They use their analysis to create a presentation...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Using the Sounds of Words Reading Task

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young readers demonstrate phonemic awareness in words and blends, and recognize 100 high-frequency words. Use a nursery rhyme to point out rhyming words, and change the words by putting a new letter at the beginning. Each learner will...
Lesson Plan
BBC

The Cream Cake Mystery - Seeing Patterns

For Teachers K - 6th
A great language arts lesson designed for emerging readers awaits your class. Rhyming words are the focus. Learners play an interactive learning game on the computer that helps them to understand words that rhyme. As with all of these...
Worksheet
Curated OER

Rhyming Words: Spoon and Moon

For Students Pre-K - K Standards
One of these things is not like the other, one of these things does not belong. It's true! Little learners will say each of the four words in each of four rows, to determine which one does not rhyme with the others. After that, they...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

All About Me Books

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Learners examine literature of emergent readers, categorize books into types of literature common for primary readers (wordless, pattern, alphabet, number, rhyme, etc.), and write a book about themselves to give as gifts to their new...