Students participate in a game called "Rhyme Charades." The teacher thinks of a word to begin the charades game giving the clue "my word rhymes with ...". The students who have a guess stand in the middle of the circle and pantomine...

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...

Students develop literacy skills by exploring street signs, cereal boxes, and billboards. In this writing with environmental print instructional activity, students build word recognition in every day print. Students decode words and...

Students explore the alphabet by completing an on-line letter identification activity. In this phonetics lesson, students utilize the website www.literarycenter.net and listen to word sounds as they identify the spelling of the...

Students follow a power point presentation to practice the sounds each letter of the alphabet make. In this 'what's my sound' lesson, students apply word recognition strategies and demonstrate listening and comprehension skills to build...

Pay special attention to onsets and rimes and initial consonants with this packet of activities designed to provide additional support to youngsters just learning to read and write.

Second graders write a poem using words from a list and practice poetic forms. In this lesson on writing a peace poem, 2nd graders brainstorm words or phrases associated with "peace." Students choose a poetic form to express their...

Learners follow five steps to compose an alliteration poem. They choose one consonant and brainstorm as many nouns, verbs, and adjectives they can think of to create rhyming sentences that come together in a poetic fashion. 

Introduce your pre-readers to rhyming using this matching exercise! They examine two sets of images, connecting rhyming pictures with a line. All 10 words use the vowel sound i. Note that some of these images may be difficult for...

As your pre-readers begin to understand phonemes and rhyming, give them this practice worksheet which has them matching rhyming pictures. For each of six images, they identify the corresponding image which has the same vowel sound (or...

Practice r-controlled vowel sounds and words with a series of phonics activities. Ranging from straightforward instruction sheets to a fun rhyming story about video games, the exercises will interest all of your learners, regardless of...

Do your students suffer from metrophobia? Assuage their fears by asking them to craft an acrostic, a form poem that begins with a single word. The first in a series of ten poetry writing exercises.

This festive winter poem incorporates rhyming using the oa sound. Readers examine the words to find examples that use that sound. This is good phonics exposure to words that have the same sound but are spelled differently....

Pre-readers benefit from visual context clues like the ones in this rhyme learning exercise. There are two sets of objects here, and scholars connect objects on the left with their rhyming counterparts on the right. Each word has the...

First grade is a great time to build strong reading skills. Here are three short rhyming poems or common nursery rhymes that are intended to help boost reading fluency. Because most children know these rhymes, they will have an easier...

If your budding readers are new to rhyme, this is a visual way to give them practice. They examine familiar sets of objects, matching them to their rhyming partners by drawing a connecting line. Practice left to right skills by asking...

What happens to the four little penguins sitting on the ice? Find out with a mini book that includes eight pages of illustrations and rhyming lines. Sure to delight the penguin lovers in your class!

A reading of Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss and a nonfiction book of your choice begins a reading adventure pack comprised of three hands-on activities. Following the reading, scholars craft a food mobile made of colorful fruit and...

Students read a story and then sing a song while focusing upon the vocabulary. The words are identified as rhyming when singing is done and words are filled in the appropriate blanks. Reading comprehension is increased with the repeating...

In this rhyming groups worksheet, learners study the pictures and then match them to the correct word. Students then separate the words into their rhyming groups by writing them into the correct category.

In this alphabetizing worksheet, students put 12 words in alphabetical order; all have the "--oat" rhyming pattern. Some words begin with the same letter.

For this flower themed "op" rhyming pattern worksheet, students study a large drawing of a flower with the letters "op" in the center. Students write one word that rhymes in each of 8 petals.

In this spelling skills worksheet, students respond to 4 questions in which they correct misspelled words, identify word families, and rhyme words.

Second graders are read a book of rhymes. They identify words that can rhyme with ones they heard in the book. They sing songs with rhyming words and repeat it using different rhyming words.