As budding readers learn about the ocean, they'll get practice with the alphabet and new vocabulary words (cling, nab, prey, slumber, and thrive) in context. Read Deborah Rose's book Into the A, B, Sea, which includes a...

Kindergarteners are presented with three types of materials: real straw, sticks, and a real brick and make prior knowledge connections as it relates to the story of The Three Little Pigs. They listen to the story and work together to...

When two vowels go walking, who does the talking? Learners explore this question with several activities featuring words with OA, AI, and EA. The activity includes many fun pictures and requires different skills sets such as context...

Identifying the tone in a piece of writing can be tricky. Readers don't have the advantage of studying the images and colors used in a painting or the instruments and sounds of a song. The second lesson in this poetry unit teaches tweens...

Students read a story. In this rhyming lesson, students define the word rhyme and brainstorm words that rhyme with hat. Students read The Great Pancake Escape and practice reciting each of the verses. Students are given a list of 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.

In this writing worksheet, students write a poem that uses -ay- words. They write 4 words that rhyme with play, match -ay- words, and use the -ay- words to complete sentences. They write a poem using one or more of the -ay- words on the...

In this rhyming words activity, students draw a line through the three words that rhyme in each tic-tac-toe puzzle. Students then write the rhyming words on the lines for the 4 puzzles.

Students watch as the teacher makes sounds with her hands. They think of a word to describe the sound. Students discuss the way the word sounds like the sound. They complete the "The Sound Monster Activity." Students are told that...

In this rhyming words worksheet, students read 15 words and place a rhyming word in a crossword puzzle. There are no rhyming words listed to choose from; students will need to decide on a word that will fit in the crossword.

In this rhyming words practice worksheet, students examine the first picture in each of 4 rows. Students color the picture in each row that rhymes with the first picture.

In this rhyming words practice activity, students examine the first picture in each of 4 rows. Students color the picture in each row that rhymes with the first picture.

Students participate in various activities through the school week involving the high-frequency words on their word wall in order to increase familiarity with reading and spelling the selected words. In this word wall lesson, students...

Students pick out words that rhyme. For this lesson on rhyme, students listen to the teacher read the poem "My Robot Does My Homework" by Kenn Nesbitt and pick out words that rhyme.

In this wring a poem activity, students find words that rhyme with ones given and use these rhyming pairs of words to create sentences and two line poems that rhyme. Students write twenty answers.

In this rhyming words worksheet, students listen to the song, "This Old Man", and then draw a line from the number to the object that rhymes with it.

In this rhyme creation activity, students learn to make a rhyme. Students point to each word and say it aloud. Students then say a word that rhymes and write it on the line. Parents or guardians must sign the activity.

In this rhyme worksheet, students read the sentences and underline the words that rhyme. Students draw a picture to go with the sentences.

Students experiment with sounds of words. In this word comparison lesson, students complete a series of games to assist them in hearing and sounding out the letters in the word rice.  Students use this information to find or think...

In these rhyming chart worksheets, learners complete 6 pages of rhyming word charts by circling the words that rhyme or finding the word that doesn't rhyme.

Students read a story.  In this rhyming words instructional activity, students learn what rhyme is, read Gwendolyn the Library Fairy and identify rhyming words.

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

Partners choose, research, and analyze fictional or historical characters and design character life boxes to represent them. They also compose a rhyme royal, which they understand inductively by deconstructing examples. Based largely on...

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...