This site offers phonemic awareness activities that will extend the concepts and skills associated with this reading skill. Activities include rhyming words, segmenting syllables, substituting beginning sounds, isolating sounds, and...

A game in which students are given a word and must hunt around the classroom for a word that rhymes with it.

A fun classroom game that helps students come up with words that rhyme with a word given to them by the teacher. Students sit in a circle, the instructor gives them a sentence and asks what word rhymes with the last word. Students raise...

This instructional activity will help students reinforce reading readiness skills (rhyming) with a chant and activities. After reading the story,Who Took The Cookies From The Cookie Jar, the students will recite the word that rhymes with...

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."

[Free Registration/Login Required] This April calendar is packed with activities: Calendar, rhyming, graphing, seasons sort and assessment. "Th", "ch", "wh," and "sh" sort and assessment, tally marks, addition, and counting Easter eggs.

A simple matching game which allows elementary students to match words that rhyme. After completing a set, another one begins. Game is complete with sounds and interaction.

A game of "Memory" where the students flip over two cards at a time to try and match rhyming words. This site includes links to Rhyming Pictures to use to make the Memory cards.

In "Red Beard the Pirate," Tucker loses his beloved Lil' Squeakie after the friends spend the day burying treasures in the sand. Clifford and Emily Elizabeth make it their mission to find Tucker's treasured toy before bedtime, however,...

A reader's theater script for Margaret Wise Brown's early childhood book, Goodnight Moon, is provided on these pages. Four character roles are needed in this activity.

A reader's theater script for Shel Silverstein's narrative poem, The Giving Tree, is provided on these pages. Thirteen character roles are needed in this activity.

You will find a thorough, cross-curricular nursery rhymes unit here. It is written by a fellow teacher, and is very creative.

Work on math and reading skills with these rhyming word problems. Organized by skill type and difficulty level, these problems let students input answers to instantly check if they are correct.

In honor of Dr. Seuss's birthday learners will explore and develop a love of the literature of Dr. Seuss through read-alouds and activities such as a birthday party, rhyming word matching, and graphing. Several Internet links are...

Lesson plan makes use of weekly poems for learners to read, discuss, and study. Students compile a poetry portfolio to use for further learning in reading and writing, as well as engaging in interactive activities such as creative poetry...

This online lesson plan stresses the importance of emergent readers' understanding of rhyming patterns in language. Through this, young scholars will learn and apply the concepts of rhyme through exercises and interactive activities. A...

Contains plans for short, daily minilessons that use nursery rhymes to teach basic reading skills. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as well as assessment and...

Here teachers and students will find many useful extension activities for the book "Ereth's Birthday."

A great fun activity to use with learners to practice fluency and word families.

Come and check out this awesome pre-reading resource. This site offers examples of simple word games you can play with kids to increase their ability to recognize and use letters and sounds. Try these games the next time you're in the...

Many simple forms, such as cinquain and haiku, that follow set formats, are included in this poetry lesson plan.

You can brush up on your "I Spy" riddles and rhymes when you explore this site. Jean Marzollo guides you through the process of creating your very own poetry.

These interactive matching games for elementary age students combine visuals of familiar objects and rhyming riddles to create brain-teasing puzzles.

Contains a number of games appropriate for preschool through grade one that focus on developing vocabulary and spelling skills. Includes games that ask students to match rhyming words, match from memory, match pictures to words, and more.