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

Beneficial for beginning readers, struggling readers, and those in need of review, a set of language arts activities is a great addition to any foundational reading unit. Focusing on phonological awareness, fluency, instructional...

Funny poems don't have to rhyme—but it helps! Learn how to use rhyming words to add humor to funny, clever, or just plain silly poems.

Students explore English by completing an interactive language history activity. In this word recognition lesson, students discuss word formations and the phonetic relationship between letters. Students identify the origin of individual...

First graders explore homophones. In 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...

Students have the opportunity to practice their rhyming skills in this activity, in which they are given a picture at the top of the page (a bear and a bag), and asked to circle the picture below that rhymes. The pictures are a little...

In this rhyming words worksheet, 1st graders use the word bank to spell a word that rhymes with the picture. Students write five words.

In this --at word family worksheet, students add the ending "at" to six beginning consonants to make rhyming words. All words are inside a cat shape.

Learners download from a website to learn about digraphs. In this digraphs lesson, students download a digraphs game to practice digraphs. 

Have your class play a motivating word game to practice reading skills. Learners take a look at a group of letters and use them to form words. The words all end in the -ay sound. A teacher could use this resource to practice reading,...

Chunking words can help students with rhyming, fluency, and spelling. Here are six vocabulary words with definitions that are color chunked by syllables. There are two additional slides that have sentences. However, the purpose of these...

For this vocabulary worksheet, students study the "-ank" rhyming pattern by finding 12 words in a word search puzzle. There is a word bank provided.

In this Language Arts activity, students read and form four words ending in -et. Students also write a sentence using one of the words.

In this language arts activity, students form four words ending in -an. Students also write a sentence using one of the words and draw a picture.

Students study rhythm and rhyme. In this rhyming lesson, students read Scrambled Eggs Super! by Dr. Seuss. Students explore the rhythm of rhyming words found in the book. The students decorate eggs and place rhyming words inside to use...

First graders read The Cleverest Thief and participate in various activities across the curriculum areas. In this story lesson, 1st graders arrange an anagram of the word monastery.  Students complete worksheets to alphabetize and...

Students practice number sense with the book Cool Cats Counting by Sherry Shahan.  In this number lesson plan, students listen to the book and count from 1-10 in English and Spanish. They practice their alphabet, rhyming words,...

In this rhyming worksheet, students circle pictures that rhyme with the word "like." A reference web site is given for additional activities.

Over the course of five periods, scholars create a poetry portfolio. They begin with a reading of the poem, Firefly. With a focus on vocabulary, learners reread the poem then look for sight words and other skills. 

Put to use the old saying, "When two vowels go a walking, the first one does the talking." Scholars focus on the /ee/ and /ie/ sounds and spelling patterns that create them. First, they label four pictures with the ea...

Mr. Snowman wants to help emerging readers understand compound words, so he segments some familiar words to help them see that they are made of two distinct words. Learners repeat the words, both segmented and blended, and observe them...

What does it begin with? In this engaging phonics game, small groups study onset and rime using picture cards. Groups take turns as one player draws three cards from an overturned pile, placing them face-up on the table. They silently...

Through the use of stories, artwork, and the KidPix program, youngsters explore the color word red, and engage in activities around the word. Teaching kindergartners about the color words can be so much fun. This could be adapted for any...

Students identify rhyming word pairs, apply generalizations about the principle of onsets and "rimes," and create and classify multiple lists of words, both real and nonsense, based on given rhymes.