Students practice blending letters and vowel sounds so that they run together smoothly, view clown poster, blend letters on balloons to form words with different letters, and read aloud story, A Cat Nap, to practice pronunciation.

In this alphabetizing worksheet, learners examine 12 words, each ending with the "--air" pattern. Students put these words in alphabetical order. Some words begin with the same letter.

In this vocabulary worksheet, students study 10 "--ew" ending words and fit them into a configuration puzzle. The words are 3-5 letters long.

In this rhyme instructional activity, learners read a nursery rhyme about a cat. Students also color in an illustration and cut out rhyming words from the story.

In this rhyming word puzzles worksheet, students read 12 clues and find two words that rhyme that have the same meaning. Example: kitty cap= cat hat.

Explore poetry by reading the poem "The Walloping Window Blind" by Charles E. Carryl, and completing an analysis with your class. The instructional activity provides the entire poem, a graphic organizer to help with summarizing and...

Just because it's summertime, doesn't mean that learning has to stop. Support children with continuing to develop their reading fluency with this extensive collection of literacy activities.

Celebrate poetry month all of April with a guide that uses six of Shel Silverstein's most famous books as a basis for the lessons. Discussion questions and writing activities are provided for each of Silverstein's books.

Ready to take your poetry writing to the next level? Use an independent lesson to iron out all those forced rhymes, wrenched rhymes, and near rhymes from first-draft poems.

Students listen to poems and rhymes, clap out syllables, and sing along with familiar tunes. They use puppets and crafts to help recall and retell favorite poems, and craft their own poems.

Students listen to the story The Contest between the Sun and the Wind.  In this Sun and Wind story students answer comprehension questions and retell the story through role playing with character puppets.  Students create paper...

Here is a simple, yet effective lesson on consonant blends. Young readers watch as the teacher demonstrates voiced phonic sounds, unvoiced phonic sounds, and voiced vowel sounds. They practice rhyming consonant blends and trigraphs.

In this St. Patrick's Day worksheet, 2nd graders read a rhyming poem about a leprechaun. They say the word that rhymes at the end of each couplet. They see and possibly color a black line picture of a leprechaun on the second page.

Students practice spelling words with the long e sounds using ee or ea. For this ee or ea lesson plan, students complete words using the ee or ea pattern, identify rhyming words, and write a rhyming poem using ee words. Using word and...

Students complete rhyming word activities. In this rhyming words lesson, students play an online game for rhyming words and recite a well known nursery rhyme as a class. Students pick out words from the poem that rhyme and brainstorm...

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.

Third graders create a rap using basic AB form composition. Evaluation of performances are based on rubric formed during the first lesson by all students. This three to four day lesson culminates in student performances and evaluation.

In this short vowel /o/worksheet, learners complete four picture clues with a word that rhymes with fog.

It's rhyme time! After reading a short article about poems that rhyme, kids take the time answer questions about the message of the passage.

There are multiple objectives to be met in this phonics worksheet. Each of these six CVC words is missing a first letter: can your scholars figure out what it is? Spellers complete the word along with its rhyming partner, drawing a...

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.

Learners explore gingerbread stories. In this poetry lesson, students read the folk tale "The Gingerbread Man" as well as Gingerbread Baby by Jan Brett and identify rhyming words. Learners also make art projects, dramatize the stories,...

If your students made a list of their favorite things, would writing poetry be on it? After this poetry writing lesson, it might! Young writers make a list of what they like—or what they don't like—before crafting the list into...

Second graders listen to poetry to find rhyme and rhythm. In this poetry lesson, 2nd graders listen to different types of poetry and find how they are alike. They look for rhyming words and create their own rhymes.