Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Words in Context: If the Word Fits
A lesson plan in which students work with a partner to choose the meaning of the underlined word in each sentence. Materials are included.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Name Bingo
Students will gain a sense of community during this instructional activity. Students will play School Bingo, engage in the shared reading of Chrysanthemum, and then play Name Bingo with the students' names featured on the Bingo cards.
Yale University
Yale New Haven Teachers Institute: Poetry for the Elementary Classroom
Site contains a narrative and three lesson plans. These plans are designed to assist students with various aspects of poetry. This site discusses strategies which enable students to effectively, memorize, recite, and correctly pronounce...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Read Well Letter Chant Podcast
This lesson guides students through creating a Podcast that provides video and audio of the Read Well Letter Chant. Students take pictures of the cards and record the chant to go along with the cards.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Make a Picture Dictionary
Children will create a picture dictionary to encourage the development of letter-sound recognition and fine-motor and creative-thinking skills, and increase their awareness about informational text.
A to Z Teacher Stuff
A to Z Teacher Stuff: Sheep in a Jeep Activities
This online lesson focuses on Nancy E. Shaw's "Sheep in a Jeep." There are several creative activities that help students to determine what words rhyme with each other.
Los Angeles County Office of Education
Teams: Distance Learning: Recognizing Rhyme
This site from the TEAMS Distance Learning provides a K-1 activity: "Quick test you can give your students to see if they can tell when words rhyme and when they do not."