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Hey Diddle Diddle
In this rhyme worksheet, students read a nursery rhyme about the cat and the fiddle. Students also color in an illustration and cut out rhyming words from the story.
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Little Jack Horner
In this rhyme worksheet, students read a nursery rhyme about Little Jack Horner. Students also color in an illustration and cut out rhyming words from the story.
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Mary Had a Little Lamb
In this rhyme worksheet, students read a nursery rhyme about Mary and her lamb. Students also color in an illustration and cut out rhyming words from the story.
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Sequencing Pocket Chart
Cut it out! Beginning readers practice sequencing skills at home or at school with a variety of activities that require cutting out multiple sets of picture cards and putting them in the correct order.
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What's in a Sentence? Getting to Know the Parts of Speech
What a kick! After examining the definitions and looking at examples of the different parts of speech, partners work together on a retelling of a famous nursery rhyme. For each sentence, they must select a word that matches the part of...
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The Tabloid Ballad
What do the theme song from Gilligan's Island, the nursery rhyme "The Owl and the Pussy-Cat," and the poem "The Shooting of Dan McGrew" all have in common? Why, they're ballads of course! Challenge your young balladeers to compose their...
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Time to Rhyme
Young scholars use phonograms to create pairs of rhyming words. After a discussion of nursery rhymes, students listen to an oral reading of "The Cat In The Hat." Through matching activities, they identify rhyming pairs and create their...
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Water Safety: Grades 6-8
Taking care of younger children is often the first job for many middle schoolers. Learning how to keep themselves and their young charges safe, especially around water, is essential. Two activities teach teens, and tweens water safety...
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How Characters Get What They Want
Sixth graders analyze the primary force that drives a character's actions in a character analysis lesson. In this character analysis lesson, 6th graders analyze how characters present their actions and participate in a group activity...
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Literature
Students develop new vocabulary through listening. They listen to comprehend and to obtain information.
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Introduce Vocabulary: The Itsy Bitsy Spider
Students explore language arts by reading a children's book in class. In this story vocabulary lesson, students read the book The Itsy Bitsy Spider and identify the use of specific vocabulary words. Students define the selected vocab...
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Mary Had a Little Lamb
Learners examine the story Mary Had a Little Lamb. In this language arts lesson, students discuss the story and read companion poems. Learners identify the rhyming words in the story. Students discuss lambs and sheep.
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Fiction and Poetry
Young scholars explore fictional text and poetry. They explore the story structures used in the types of texts and examine the language patterns used. Students practice tracking text in the correct manner.
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Oh Dear What Can the Matter Be
For this language arts worksheet, learners learn rhyme pattern and repetition in a poem by singing or reading a poem called "Oh Dear What Can the Matter Be." There is a link to a site which has the instrumental accompaniment.
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Hickory Dickory Dock Webquest
Pupils listen to and read nursery rhymes. They discuss rhyming words. Students play a variety of computer games with rhymes, numbers and telling time. They retell the story through dramatic play, speech, and comprehension questions.
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One, Two, Three, Four
Fourth graders view a poster of One, Two, Three, Four," they are told that the woman is named Mary. They are asked if they have ever seen a door like the one in the picture, where the top opens and the bottom stays closed? Students are...
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Hey Diddle Diddle
Students discuss their needs to grow and be healthy. They listen as the teacher explains the definition of "organisms" and "nonliving" Students identify organisms in the classroom. They listen to and view a poster illustrating the "Hey...
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Jack Sprat Could Eat No Fat
Students listen to a view a "Jack Sprat Could Eat No Fat" poster and vocabulary. They sing the "Jack Sprat" song, review vocabulary and vocabulary applications. Afterward, they chant the nursery rhyme as well as sing it.
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Pussy Cat, Pussy Cat
In this rhyme worksheet, learners read a nursery rhyme about a cat. Students also color in an illustration and cut out rhyming words from the story.
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Higglety, Pigglety, Pop
Students engage in a lesson that is about the concept of reading comprehension while practicing the reading with the help of the teacher. They read the story focusing upon the rhyming words that could be used for vocabulary.
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Hickory Dickory Dock
Young scholarsa introduced to a new rhyme, "Hickory Dickory Dock," they view a poster. They fockus on the picture on the top of the page, students are asked how many of them have seen a grandfather clock before? Young scholars are told...
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Jack And Jill
Students engage in a lesson that is concerned with the reading of "Jack and Jill" with the help of a poster to set the context for class activities like discussion. They read the story and fill in the blanks for the words that are...
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Queen Anna Banana's Fruit Group
Second graders participate in activities focusing on the fruit group and rhyming words.