Curated OER
Using Songs
Students explore songs in a variety of ways to practice the English language. They work in groups to build songs and sing them to the class. They prepare an oral presentation of a singer, group, or musical genre. They contrast two...
Curated OER
Ugly Bug/Snuggly Bug
Students demonstrate an understanding of rhyming words by creating buggy pictures and a sentence containing rhyming words. They listen to the story, 'Creepy Beetles,' then engage in an activity where they identify the rhyming words.
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: Identifying and Generating Rhyming Words: A Story About Fred
A fun poem about "Fred" that the teacher reads to the class and students guess what the missing words are. When they guess correctly, they are able to draw the character.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Craft Stick Game: Identifying and Generating Rhyming Words
A fun game where students draw/colr and happy face on one end of a craft stick and a sad face on the other end. Then they hold up these sticks to identify whether or two words that their instructor says rhyme.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Bingo: Identifying and Generating Rhyming Words
A version of Bingo! that teaches students to differentiate between words that rhyme. The site includes links to bingo boards and rhyming pictures.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Super Why! Wonder Red Rhyme Time Bingo
In this interactive game, the character Wonder Red reads aloud a word to prompt the player to find another word that rhymes with it. The process is repeated until the entire BINGO card reveals a printable picture.
PBS
Pbs Kids: Wonder Red's Freeze Dance Rhyming
Dance with Word Red while identifying rhyming words. When you correctly click the rhyming word, she will freeze and do an awesome dance move!
Sesame Street
Sesame Street: Games: Rhyme Time
Come aboard the Rhyme Time Express and learn about rhyming words!
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Rhyme Time
Learn all about rhyming with Grover in this fun train game! Conductor Grover leads the way as you drive the train and pick which words rhyme.
Hopelink
Hopelink: Writing Lesson Idea: Poetry Writing
Many simple forms, such as cinquain and haiku, that follow set formats, are included in this poetry lesson plan.
PBS
Pbs Kids: Sesame Street: Games: Grover's Rhyme Time
Help Grover pick up train cars by choosing rhyming words; then fill the cars by catching the falling items.
Quia
Quia: Rhyme Time Match Up
These interactive games ask students to "Find matches of rhyming words," Games come in three formats: "Matching, Flashcards (Java / non-Java), Concentration."
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: A Hunting We Will Go Teaching Rhyming Through Musical Verse
Contains plans for two lessons that teach about rhyming words using the song "A-Hunting We Will Go." In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as well as assessment and...
PBS
Pbs Kids: Super Why: A L L Rhyming Words Worksheet [Pdf]
Print this worksheet for your students while teaching a rhyming/spelling unit. Student will fill in the beginning sound using picture clues to make a word ending in A-L-L. [Requires Adobe Reader.]
Los Angeles County Office of Education
Teams: Phonemic Awareness Activities
This site offers phonemic awareness activities that will extend the concepts and skills associated with this reading skill. Activities include rhyming words, segmenting syllables, substituting beginning sounds, isolating sounds, and...
Quia
Quia: Rhyme Time Picture Match Up
"Click on the pictures of words that rhyme (i.e., dog-frog; hat-cat)." Games come in four formats: "Matching, Flashcards, Concentration, Word Search."
Utah Education Network
Uen: Identify and Create Rhyming Words
In this lesson students will listen to poetry or rhyming books and recognize rhyming words.
Utah Education Network
Uen: 1st Grade Act. 07: Seven Fat Cats
With the aid of Joy Cowley's Seven Fat Cats as a shared text, 1st graders will listen and match the sounds (rhyming, beginning, ending, and vowel.)
Utah Education Network
Uen: 1st Grade Act. 05: Chrysanthemum Sound Boards
This lesson plan involves having students listen to sounds and match sounds. Students will match rhyming sounds, beginning sounds, ending sounds or vowel sounds.
Roy the Zebra
Roy the Zebra: Words That Rhyme With Bug
Help the bees collect words that rhyme with "bug" by clicking on the bees to see the words and drag the rhyming words into the nests.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Word Families: Ig and Ip
This technology-based lesson will help students develop their phonemic awareness by teaching students to hear the sounds in the -ig and -ip word families. It also leads students to apply what they have learned.
Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center
Wisconsin Rt I Center: Word Families Letter Combinations [Pdf]
Classroom teachers will learn about teaching phonics through word families and letter combinations. Teachers will learn how to implement the use of word families and letter combinations, understand how to measure progress with word...
Free Reading
Free Reading: Beach Ball Word Families
A great fun activity to use with students to practice fluency and word families.