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Free Reading

Free Reading: Memory Game: Identifying and Generating Rhming Words

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
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.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Rhyme Around Baseball Activity

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
An exciting version of baseball to build fluency in creating rhyming words. The classroom is divided into two teams; when one team is up to bat the first student is given a word family such as -at. They must create a rhyming word and...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Using Poetry to Teach Reading & Writing

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Lesson plan makes use of weekly poems for students 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...
Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Generating Rhymes for Analogy Based Phonics

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This online lesson introduces students to many different approaches toward learning about rhyme and other similarities in words, such as shared/guided reading and small group instruction. A good tool for increasing students' phonological...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Reach

For Students Pre-K - 1st
REACH is a self-paced interactive reading program to engage parents and children as at-home reading partners. Designed by classroom reading specialists and aligned with kindergarten through third grade standards, these self-paced...
Interactive
Roy the Zebra

Roy the Zebra: Words That Rhyme With Cat

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Help Belinda the Chicken collect her fruit by clicking on the apples, finding the ones that rhyme with cat, and dragging them to her house. Links to lesson plans and printable materials are available.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Chants and Street Rhymes [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 8th Standards
Four pages of with chants and street rhymes. Three of the pages are reproducible examples and information useful to students, and one page gives lesson ideas for teachers.
Interactive
Roy the Zebra

Roy the Zebra: Words That Rhyme With Top

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Help the bees collect words that rhyme with top by clicking on the bees, finding the words that rhyme with top, and dragging them to the nest. Links to lesson plans and materials are available.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Developing Phonemic Awareness

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This online lesson stresses the importance of emergent readers' understanding of rhyming patterns in language. Through this, learners will learn and apply the concepts of rhyme through exercises and interactive activities. A great...
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Other

The Virtual Vine: Nursery Rhyme Unit

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
You will find a thorough, cross-curricular nursery rhymes unit here. It is written by a fellow teacher, and is very creative.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Celebrating Seuss!

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
In honor of Dr. Seuss's birthday students 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...
Website
University of Virginia

Webbing Into Literacy: A Rhyme a Week: Nursery Rhymes for Early Literacy

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This site offers a ready-to-use rhyme a week program for early literacy; the program offers dated units for weekly download to use throughout the entire year. It provides four different types of downloadable items each week for use with...
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University of Oregon

Pizzaz, Creative Writing & Storytelling: Tongue Twisters

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This PIZZAZ (People Interested in Zippy and ZAny Zcribbling) lesson plan will engage students in writing tongue twisters. Examples of tongue twisters are provided. A template is also included as a graphic organizing support for students.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Word Families: Ig and Ip

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This technology-based lesson will help students develop their phonemic awareness by teaching students to hear the sounds in the -ig and -ip word families. It also leads students to apply what they have learned.
Professional Doc
Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: By Car, Train, or Bus! The Sounds of Language on the Go

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
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...
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Short Vowel Rhymes

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson helps students work on short vowel rhymes.
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Can Teach

Can Teach: Writing a Bio Poem

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
This site describes how a Bio poem can be used to teach young scholars to focus on the characteristics of a person or an animal, anything or anyone really. It requires the student to put themselves in the subject's shoes. Lesson plan...
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Braingle

Braingle: Language Brain Teasers

For Students 9th - 10th
"Manipulate words and letters" with these "language brain teasers" that ask you to think about letters, anagrams, syllables, consonants, rhymes, and other topics that you talk about in English class. Try the brain teasers presented here,...
Activity
Scholastic

Scholastic: Max's Math Adventures: Max's Fantastical Zoo

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Use this rhyming description of Max's Fantastical Zoo to make some amazing animals from geometric shapes. There is a teacher's guide for easy lesson planning.
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Other

Craft of Poetry: Couplet

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Well detailed discussion of the use of the couplet in poetry. A number of different kinds of couplets are defined and explained (short couplet, split couplet, heroic couplet, Alexandrine couplet, Qasida), and a "How To" section suggests...
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Poetry Writing With Karla Kuskin

For Teachers 4th - 8th Standards
With the aid of Karla Kuskin, this site from Scholastic explores the world of poetry. Here you can find tips for poetry writing, ideas for revising, and even a place to post your completed poem online! A fully developed teacher's guide...

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