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Teaching Phonics Through Poetry

For Teachers 1st
Students understand rhythm and rhyming words in poetry. In this poetry lesson, students listen to poetry and are able to find the ABAB pattern. Students recognize the "ow" sound. Students complete various activities to practice the...
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Rhyming Words

For Students 1st - 2nd
For this recognizing words that have rhyming patterns worksheet, students observe nine illustrated words and write three words that rhyme with each of them. Students write 27 answers.
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Lesson Plan
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Spring is Here

For Teachers Pre-K - 4th
Learners analyze changes between winter and spring. In this seasonal changes lesson plan, students read the story "Spring is Here." They record changes between winter and spring on a large chart paper. Learners compare and contrast the...
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Starfall

Zac the Rat

For Students K - 2nd
In this language arts activity, students investigate the short vowel sound /a/. Learners rhyme and write words corresponding to a picture.
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Starfall

Surfer Girl

For Students K - 2nd
For this language arts learning exercise, students complete words using the /ir/ digraph and locate two rhyming words.
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Starfall

Mox's Shop

For Students K - 2nd
In this short vowel /o/instructional activity, learners complete four picture clues with a word that rhymes with fog.
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Poetry Book-- Small Creatures

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this reading instructional activity, learners create a book of poems about small creatures of the garden by stapling 20 pages. Students read each short poem and color the pictures.
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Configuration Station- #20 One And Two Letter Words

For Students K - 2nd
In this reading worksheet, students examine 8 short words in a word bank and participate in a variety of activities: sentence writing, alphabetizing, word puzzles and rhyming.
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Configuration Station #10

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this vocabulary activity, students study 6 words in a word bank and complete 30 activities such as alphabetizing, rhyming, sentence writing, and illustrating.
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configuration station #18

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this vocabulary worksheet, students analyze 5 words in a word bank and complete 30 questions. Although it is not clear what these words have in common, all are high frequency words which students will encounter in their daily reading...
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The Sonnet Challenge

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers are given information about two popular sonnet forms-English and Italian. They are given the rules for writing a sonnet. Students are asked what type of sonnet they would use. They are each given a sheet of paper and...
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It's Time to Rhyme

For Teachers K - 3rd
Learners listen to rhyming book, identify rhyming pairs, guess what rhyme words mean, and create list of rhyming pairs on chart paper. They then discuss Fifty States Quarters Program, identify objects on backs of state coins, and...
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Word Families

For Teachers 1st
First graders listen as they are read a book containing exmaples of word families, they listen for rhyming words. They focus on word families, words that have rhyming sounds and share the same spelling patterns. Pupils work in small...
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Write Your Own Rap

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders create a rap using basic AB form composition. Evaluation of performances are based on rubric formed during the first lesson by all students. This three to four day lesson culminates in student performances and evaluation.
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Silhouettes and Interiors

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students create a multimedia piece that integrates drawing and collage. Students learn about metacognition and the discovering of self through genres of art and literature by using these steps: inspiration, brainstorm, application,...
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Show You Care

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students construct a four-line poem to be used on the inside of a Valentine's Day card. They use a digital camera to show themselves to their "buddies" (local nursing home patients) who receive the cards on Valentine's Day.
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Shakespeare Analysis

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders focus on the Shakespearian sonnet as a form and analyze the sonnet in terms of structure, the particular rhyme scheme of the quatrains and the rhyming couplet, the rhythm of iambic pentameter, as well as any figurative...
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PPT
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Rhyming Words

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This resource is composed of a single slide, which contains twelve images. Learners say the name of the images then determine which of the other pictures is its rhyming partner.
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PPT
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Katalina Matalina

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Chant along to this odd rhyming game. Each slide requires students to recite the words Katlina Matalina Upsadina Walkadina Hoca Poca Loca. After each slide progresses another attribute is added to an image which will finally reveal an...
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Patterns in Poetry: Part 2 -- Sound

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Students understand a variety of poems listening for sound letter correspondence, rhyme scheme, assonance, and alliteration. In this language arts lesson, students practice listening and reading skills to complete patterns in poetry. ...
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Do They Rhyme?

For Teachers K
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.
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Dr. Seuss Rhyming

For Teachers K
Students complete activities with the book Green Eggs and Ham. In this rhyming lesson, students read the book and focus on the rhyming words. They try teacher made green eggs and ham and write a rhyme describing where they would or would...
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Interactive
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Alphabet Family

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this songs worksheet, students fill in the blanks, complete rhyming activities, and more having to do with the song Alphabet Family. Students complete 3 activities total.
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English Skill Sheet 3

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this spelling skills worksheet, students correct misspelled words, identify word families, and put words into alphabetical order.