Scholastic
Scholastic: Writing Riddle Rhymes With Jean Marzollo
Children's author Jean Marzollo will teach you how to write "I Spy Riddle Rhymes"! There is a teacher's guide included.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Rhyme Around Baseball Activity
An exciting version of baseball to build fluency in creating rhyming words. The classroom is divided into two teams; when one team is up to bat the first student is given a word family such as -at. They must create a rhyming word and...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Using Poetry to Teach Reading & Writing
Lesson plan makes use of weekly poems for students to read, discuss, and study. Students compile a poetry portfolio to use for further learning in reading and writing, as well as engaging in interactive activities such as creative poetry...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Generating Rhymes for Analogy Based Phonics
This online lesson introduces students to many different approaches toward learning about rhyme and other similarities in words, such as shared/guided reading and small group instruction. A good tool for increasing students' phonological...
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: Sti Lesson 33: 8 Rap
Rap music and hip-hop were the pop music of the nineties. Students of all ages liked to mimic the rappers they listened to on CD's, tapes, and the radio. This lesson builds on students' interest in rap music as well as their enjoyment of...
Arizona State University
Alberto Rios, Arizona State U.: Glossary of Rhymes
This is a very extensive list of rhymes that "Occur frequently in discussions of poetry and critical writing, but not with absolute consistency." All have definitions, and many have examples. They are organized into five categories:...
Can Teach
Can Teach: Writing a Bio Poem
This site describes how a Bio poem can be used to teach young scholars to focus on the characteristics of a person or an animal, anything or anyone really. It requires the student to put themselves in the subject's shoes. Lesson plan...
Other
Rhyme Zone Rhyme Finder
Enter a word and get a list of rhyming words, synonyms, antonyms, definitions, homophones and related words. Also available on this page, the texts of Shakespeare's plays, quotes by notable authors, games and quizzes, texts of famous...