Partners choose, research, and analyze fictional or historical characters and design character life boxes to represent them. They also compose a rhyme royal, which they understand inductively by deconstructing examples. Based largely on...

What a skillful way to incorporate Shel Silverstein, a wonderful author, into the classroom. Composed of three tasks, children are led through a series of text-dependent questions that force them to unveil the meaning of Silverstein's...

Learners explore short vowel sounds as they cut out these seventy word cards. The cards may be used in a variety of classroom activities. Make games out of word recognition such as grouping together the rhyming words, trying to toss the...

Learners explore botany by participating in a language arts activity. For this garden poetry lesson, students read the classic poem "Mary, Mary Quite Contrary" and discuss the imagery and rhyming methods used. Learners examine their own...

A reading of Dr. Seuss's My Many Colored Days provides a great intro for a discussion of colors and how they can represent emotions and moods. Kids share the feelings they associate with various colors

First graders practice their language art capabilities by rhyming words.  In this vocabulary lesson, 1st graders examine words that rhyme with rice and create rhyming sentences using the same sound.  Students complete a quick...

Students read a Dr. Seuss book and complete activities for short vowel sound words. In this short vowels lesson, students read Hop on Pop and analyze the rhyming words in the text. Students complete rhyming activities and practice...

In this spelling worksheet, students use a code given at the top of the worksheet and decode spelling words, then finish sets of rhyming words.

Young scholars explore technology by participating in a word structure activity. For this grammar lesson, students utilize the Writing Center computer software to practice keyboarding while identifying word formations in class. Young...

Students sing along to a hello song. They develop skills of phonemic awareness, literacy and social awareness. They think of words that rhyme with their names to add to the song.

Third graders, while working in groups, identify five sets of words that rhyme in order to write and illustrate a storybook using rhyming words through a journal entry. They assess proper grammar, spelling, and punctuation in their...

Students practice counting, measuring, and predicting. In this early childhood lesson plan, students identify numbers 1-101, rhyming words, and repetitive words using Long Train by Sam Williams. Students build their recall skills by...

Second graders study short and long vowel sounds. They hear each word or picture by clicking on it to hear each rhyme. There is also the option of letting some students type their own rhyming sentence in this program. They complete a...

In this science related activity, students complete a wide variety of interactive activities associated with earthworms and their inhabitants.

Students will have fun learning about the letter "L" with the activities in this lesson plan. The author suggests reading "Lightning Bug" from the McGraw-Hill reading book. However, you may find other poems that are fitting for this...

Students use an Inspiration template to brainstorm and record as many rhyming words as possible in designated amount of time. Then, students compare their results scoring points for unique responses. This activity could be easily adapted...

Second graders write rhyming poems. In this poetry writing lesson, 2nd graders discuss the meaning of the word "funny." They use word tiles to create a rhyming poem which they transpose into their writing journals. They listen to...

Students see that the sense of hearing helps us learn from each other through communication. Also, students explain that sound can produce patterns. They engage in a wide variety of activities that focus on the sense of hearing.

Students read the book, I Love Spiders by John Parker. Then students enjoy different activities creating spiders and making a spider web room. Great for Halloween.

Students identify parts of the brain and what each part does. In this brain anatomy lesson, students participate in activities that focus on the job of each part of the brain co connect the task to the brain section. Students make a...

Students identify two- and three-dimensional figures and associate them with real-world objects.  In this geometry activity, students are read The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle and complete several activities including a...

Students participate in phonemic awareness and phonics activities and develop a list of vegetable vocabulary words. They break up words into beginnings and endings, and trace and write the letter s. Students then create a Vegetable...

Learners, in groups, create a student book for an assigned group of immigrants to the Colonial United States (Huguenots, Scots, Irish, Africans.) They create drawings for the book and rhyming text that depicts three struggles that...

Learners consider the idea of earning and spending money. In this money management lesson plan, students discuss the concept of saving and spending money through the reading of a story and by completing several activities that involve...