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Unit Plan
Curated OER

Using Songs

For Teachers 6th - 12th
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...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Ugly Bug/Snuggly Bug

For Teachers K
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.
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Unit Plan
Scholastic

Scholastic: Writing Riddle Rhymes With Jean Marzollo

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Children's author Jean Marzollo will teach you how to write "I Spy Riddle Rhymes"! There is a teacher's guide included.
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Lesson Plan
Free Reading

Free Reading: Identifying and Generating Rhyming Words: A Story About Fred

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
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.
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Activity
Free Reading

Free Reading: Craft Stick Game: Identifying and Generating Rhyming Words

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
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.
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Lesson Plan
Free Reading

Free Reading: Bingo: Identifying and Generating Rhyming Words

For Teachers K - 1st
A version of Bingo! that teaches students to differentiate between words that rhyme. The site includes links to bingo boards and rhyming pictures.
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Interactive
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Super Why! Wonder Red Rhyme Time Bingo

For Students Pre-K - 1st
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.
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Interactive
PBS

Pbs Kids: Wonder Red's Freeze Dance Rhyming

For Students K - 1st
Dance with Word Red while identifying rhyming words. When you correctly click the rhyming word, she will freeze and do an awesome dance move!
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Interactive
Sesame Street

Sesame Street: Games: Rhyme Time

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Come aboard the Rhyme Time Express and learn about rhyming words!
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Interactive
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Rhyme Time

For Students Pre-K - 1st
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.
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Lesson Plan
Hopelink

Hopelink: Writing Lesson Idea: Poetry Writing

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Many simple forms, such as cinquain and haiku, that follow set formats, are included in this poetry lesson plan.
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Interactive
PBS

Pbs Kids: Sesame Street: Games: Grover's Rhyme Time

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Help Grover pick up train cars by choosing rhyming words; then fill the cars by catching the falling items.
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Interactive
Quia

Quia: Rhyme Time Match Up

For Students 1st - 3rd Standards
These interactive games ask students to "Find matches of rhyming words," Games come in three formats: "Matching, Flashcards (Java / non-Java), Concentration."
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: A Hunting We Will Go Teaching Rhyming Through Musical Verse

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
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...
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Activity
PBS

Pbs Kids: Super Why: A L L Rhyming Words Worksheet [Pdf]

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
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.]
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Unit Plan
Los Angeles County Office of Education

Teams: Phonemic Awareness Activities

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
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...
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Interactive
Quia

Quia: Rhyme Time Picture Match Up

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
"Click on the pictures of words that rhyme (i.e., dog-frog; hat-cat)." Games come in four formats: "Matching, Flashcards, Concentration, Word Search."
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Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: Identify and Create Rhyming Words

For Teachers K Standards
In this lesson plan students will listen to poetry or rhyming books and recognize rhyming words.
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Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: 1st Grade Act. 07: Seven Fat Cats

For Teachers 1st
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.)
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Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: 1st Grade Act. 05: Chrysanthemum Sound Boards

For Teachers 1st
This lesson plan involves having students listen to sounds and match sounds. Students will match rhyming sounds, beginning sounds, ending sounds or vowel sounds.
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Interactive
Roy the Zebra

Roy the Zebra: Words That Rhyme With Bug

For Students Pre-K - 1st
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.
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Word Families: Ig and Ip

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This technology-based lesson plan 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.
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Professional Doc
Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center

Wisconsin Rt I Center: Word Families Letter Combinations [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
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...
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Lesson Plan
Free Reading

Free Reading: Beach Ball Word Families

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
A great fun activity to use with students to practice fluency and word families.