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Alliteration

For Teachers 4th
In this alliteration worksheet, 4th graders write alliterations with their first names, find rhyming patterns in poems, and more. Students complete 4 activities.
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Knick Knack Paddywhack

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students search for hidden patterns and rhymes.  In this pattern and rhyming instructional activity, students search for hidden patterns and rhymes within the song "Knick-knack Paddywhack."  Students discuss what they find or...
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Writing Limericks

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders compose or create works of communication for specific audiences and purposes. They locate, access, and select relevant information from a variety of sources. They revise and edit their work to improve content, organization...
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Lesson One: Rock N Rhythm & Rhyme (Part One)

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders listen to poetry to find rhyme and rhythm. In this poetry instructional activity, 2nd graders listen to different types of poetry and find how they are alike. They look for rhyming words and create their own rhymes. 
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Lesson Two: Rock N Rhythm & Rhyme (Part Two)

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders find rhythm and rhyme in poetry. In this poetry lesson, 2nd graders listen to different poems to find the rhyming words. They play a memory game and try to find two words that rhyme. 
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Writing Poetry About the Meadow

For Students 4th - 6th
In this writing poetry about the meadow worksheet, learners, after completing a lesson on meadow habitats, read the poem "Over in the Meadow" and then write additional stanzas using rhyming words and facts from the habitat lesson.
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Fish Pond Rhymes

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students explore the concept of rhyming words. In this rhyme lesson, students match pairs of fish card words that rhyme with one another.
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Introduce Word Families

For Teachers 1st
First graders study words. In this word families lesson, 1st graders discover words that rhyme with the endings -est and -ill. They work as a group to determine which ending various words have and to put them in the proper category based...
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Introduce word families

For Teachers 1st
First graders play a matching game to find words that rhyme with each other with word endings est and ill. In this word family lesson plan, 1st graders match up the words in small groups by using word cards.
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Rock Around the Clock Math

For Teachers K - 2nd
An engaging and fun lesson on telling time is here for you. In it, young time-tellers listen to the song, "Rock Around the Clock," then use Judy Clocks to practice telling time to the hour and half hour. Finally, using paper plates, each...
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Fun with Phonemic Awareness

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
The phonemic awareness activities in this packet are designed to help kids develop skills in rhyming, syllabication, blending onsets and rimes, and beginning and ending sounds. Well worth a place in your curriculum library.
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“THE LORAX” by Dr. Seuss

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
Few children's books convey the message of conservation as well as Dr. Seuss' The Lorax. Read the story aloud, emphasizing the interconnectedness of plants and animals in an ecosystem and discussing different ways people can help...
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How to Write a Clerihew

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Writing funny poems is the best part about learning poetic forms! Young poets learn all about clerihews—humorous four-line poems about people—with an explanatory lesson.
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Show You Care

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students construct a four-line poem to be used on the inside of a Valentine's Day card. They use a digital camera to show themselves to their "buddies" (local nursing home patients) who receive the cards on Valentine's Day.
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Phonemic Awareness through Music

For Teachers K
Students listen to a song and identify the rhyming words. After listening to the song, Down By the Bay by Raffi, students identify at least 5 rhyming sets of words
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Rhyme Time

For Teachers K
Students discover rhyming words. In this rhyming lesson, students read A Giraffe and a Half. Students examine rhyming words from the story. Working in small groups, students create rhymes in response to a prompt from the teacher.
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Homophones and Rhyming Words

For Teachers 1st
First graders explore homophones. For this spelling pattern lesson, 1st graders are led through a discussion on homophones and words that rhyme with homophones. The teacher leads the class in sorting these rhyming words based upon their...
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Shakespeare Analysis

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders focus on the Shakespearian sonnet as a form and analyze the sonnet in terms of structure, the particular rhyme scheme of the quatrains and the rhyming couplet, the rhythm of iambic pentameter, as well as any figurative...
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Musical Change

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Young learners record observations about different coin denominations and create a song about coins to the traditional song, "The Wheels on the Bus." This lesson plan is based on the Tennessee Quarter Reverse, and has all sorts of...
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Sorting Words

For Teachers K
Students investigate rhyming words. In this word study lesson, students are introduced to rhyming words and then sort out the words that rhyme and group them. A worksheet is provided.
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'P' Is for Poetry

For Teachers K - 12th
Students write rhymes for each letter of the alphabet. In this rhyming lesson plan, students come up with various words that could rhyme for each letter. Once they come up with rhymes for each, they publish them in a book along with...
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Ugly Bug/Snuggly Bug

For Teachers K
Students demonstrate an understanding of rhyming words by creating buggy pictures and a sentence containing rhyming words. They listen to the story, 'Creepy Beetles,' then engage in an activity where they identify the rhyming words.
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Somewhere

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders write their own version of the book "Somewhere" in this lesson. They listen to the book and locate the rhyming words within the text. They find the number of syllables per word in the text, and compare the number of...
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How Many Words Can You Say that Rhyme With Rice?

For Teachers 1st
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...

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