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Rhyme at Circle Time

For Teachers Pre-K
Students demonstrate proper hand washing techniques. In this personal hygiene lesson, students listen to included rhymes about cleanliness and identify the rhyming words. Students share situations where hand washing is essential.
Unit Plan
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Teaching Phonics Through Poetry

For Teachers 1st
Students understand rhythm and rhyming words in poetry. In this poetry lesson, students listen to poetry and are able to find the ABAB pattern. Students recognize the "ow" sound. Students complete various activities to practice the...
Worksheet
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Grade 1 English: I Can Rhyme 1

For Students 5th
In this grade 1 English worksheet, 5th graders write down all the rhymes that they can make for the words hat, boy, sun, and look. They fill the blank lines with as many words as they can think of.
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Grade 1 English: I Can Rhyme 2

For Students 1st
For this grade 1 English worksheet, 1st graders write down all the rhymes they can make for the words big, pet, neck, and leg. They fill in as many of the blank lines as they can.
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How to Write a “Roses are Red” Valentine’s Day Poem

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Compose a Valentine's Day poem! Practicing their rhyming skills, scholars follow the traditional format to create a happy poem for a friend or family member. 
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Hooray For Diffendoofer Day!

For Teachers K - 6th Standards
Eleven engaging activities make up a story guide that accompanies Dr. Seuss' Hooray For Diffendoofer Day! Scholars design a fictional classroom setting including scary face tests, writing job descriptions, adapting the book...
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Every Thing On It Lessons and Activities

For Students 1st - 3rd Standards
Honor the great poet, Shel Silverstein with eighteen activities and lessons showcasing his collection of poems from the book, Every Thing On It. Activities challenge scholars to rhyme words, make inferences, recite a poem, and...
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Guided Reading Activities with Pizzazz

For Teachers 1st - 4th Standards
Get the most out of your guided reading lessons with this collection of literacy materials. Offering a system for using color-coded tags to mark pages while reading books, as well as an assortment of comprehension and grammar...
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More Spelling Patterns

For Students 2nd - 3rd Standards
Pass the time...creating rhymes! Writers connect rhyming words  with -ough in them, writing them as rhyming pairs. Next, they put their poetic skills to the test by applying the words in rhyming couplets. There is an example...
Lesson Plan
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Can You Rhyme?

For Teachers 1st
First graders combine locomotive skills and rhyming skills to learn about rhyming pairs. They actively participate in the learning process.
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We're Going On A Leaf Hunt

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students read the story We're Going on a Leaf Hunt and read companion stories, make leaves, work with rhyming and word families, and more. For this reading lesson plan, students take 5 days to read the book.
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Rocket Rhymes and Songs

For Teachers K - 1st
Students use rhymes, chants, songs, and creative movement about rockets to demonstrate words that rhyme. They place sentence strips in order, and identify words that rhyme.
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Word Wall Words

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students use the basic required 200 words by sight in sentences of three to six words, use the words to play bingo and rhyming word activity.
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Dr. Seuss

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Learners read books by the same author and compare what they find.  In this Dr. Seuss instructional activity, students learn about Dr. Seuss' writing style, listen for the rhyme scheme in his stories, and create a KWL chart on Dr....
Worksheet
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Rhymes

For Students K - 2nd
In this rhymes worksheet, students read a short poem about a zebra. Students fill in the missing words so they rhyme. Students then write the next two lines of the rhyming poem.
Interactive
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Rhymes - 1

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this on-line language arts worksheet, students complete 10 multiple choice questions where they choose the word that rhymes with the bold word. Students can check their answers at the end of the worksheet.
Worksheet
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Groundhog Draw/ Erase A Rhyme

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this Groundhog Day instructional activity, students fill in 8 missing words in a poem about Punxsutawney Phil seeing his shadow. There is a word bank.
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Making Words

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders spell words and define homophone.  In this making words lesson, 3rd graders decipher words from letter strips in an effort to identify the "secret word". Students use a set of letters to spell different words. 
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Who's in the Shed?

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders examine the cover of the book, WHO'S IN THE SHED? and talk about the animals portrayed and the noises they make. They then read the book as a class, looking through the peepholes and making predictions.
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Match the Rhymes

For Students Pre-K - K Standards
Explore CVC words with the vowel sound a to give pre-readers a grasp of rhyme. They draw lines from a van to surrounding pictures that rhyme (man, pan, fan, can). Then, leaners get printing practice by tracing the words van...
Activity
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Inspire a Life of Reading

For Teachers Pre-K - 12th
Making letters out of goop, sight word bingo, tic-tac-toe vowels. Download this packet loaded with activities designed to engage beginning readers. Although designed for adults, many of the activities are appropriate for any...
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Word Wall Words

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students practice recognizing sights words. In this literacy lesson, students recognize and read 200 sight words, use combinations of words to make sentences, use words to fill in basic sentences, successfully pass spelling tests with...
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Where is the Pet?

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students identify rhyming words and explore the usage of spatial words. In this Where Is The Pet lesson, students listen to a poem, repeat the rhymes within the poem, list various of additional rhyming words that can replace the words in...
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The Clever Monkey Rides Again

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
How very clever. No need to monkey around with this resource. Rob Cleveland's version of the West African tale, "The Clever Monkey Rides Again," is used as the basis for multiple of cross-curricular activities including exercises...