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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Listening Walk

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students play instruments that reflect sounds in the story: hoots, toots, creaking, shrieks, clacking, crunching, whooshing, etc. They make vocal sounds from the story: whispered, sniffled, sigh, giggled, croaked, laughed. The...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Vocal Awareness

For Teachers K - 1st
Students explore the human voice through teacher-directed exercises and experiments in the Kindergarten or 1st grade general music classroom. Textbook references are mentioned and an assessment pattern is given.
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Lesson Planet Article
Curated OER

Valentine's Day Poems

For Teachers K - 6th
Roses are red, violets are blue, poems are sweet, and educational too.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Jack Sprat Could Eat No Fat

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners listen to a view a "Jack Sprat Could Eat No Fat" poster and vocabulary. They sing the "Jack Sprat" song, review vocabulary and vocabulary applications. Afterward, they chant the nursery rhyme as well as sing it.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Learning Rhymes

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore rhymes and reading.
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Unit Plan
Curated OER

Oh! The Stories Behind Nursery Rhymes

For Teachers K
Students investigate the games that children used to play to nursery rhymes. They explore the role of illustrators and illustrate their own book of rhymes in this unit.
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Activity
Los Angeles County Office of Education

Teams: Distance Learning: Rhyming Words Activities

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A K-1 lesson plan from TEAMS Distance Learning. "Students will practice rhyming words and also be able to identify words that rhyme. These lessons will have them active."
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Unit Plan
Free Reading

Free Reading: Rhyme Rally Game: Identifying and Generating Rhyming Words

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
A teacher-led activity teaching students to identify whether it contains rhyming words. This site also contains links to Rhyming Books.
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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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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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Unit Plan
Free Reading

Free Reading: The Ship Is Loaded With: A Game Identifying and Generating Rhyming Words

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
A fun classroom game that helps students come up with words that rhyme with a word given to them by the teacher. Students sit in a circle, the instructor gives them a sentence and asks what word rhymes with the last word. Students raise...
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Unit Plan
Free Reading

Free Reading: Find the Rhyme: Identifying and Generating Rhyming Words

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
A game in which students are given a word and must hunt around the classroom for a word that rhymes with it.
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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
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Phonological Awareness/rhyming

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
During this lesson students will be introduced to rhyme in a variety of ways. Students will use picture cards, practice rhyming on the Internet, and listen to a book with rhyme. At the end of the lesson, student should be able to...
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Unit Plan
Free Reading

Free Reading: Make a Big Book of Rhymes: Identifying and Generating Rhyming Words

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this teacher-led activity on this site, students work together in the classroom creating a book full of rhymes.
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Unit Plan
Free Reading

Free Reading: Memory Game: Identifying and Generating Rhming Words

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
A game of "Memory" where the students flip over two cards at a time to try and match rhyming words. This site includes links to Rhyming Pictures to use to make the Memory cards.
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Explicit Phonics Lesson for "Sh"

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This lesson plan covers phonemic awareness, decoding, blending, spelling patterns, and dictation. It can be used as an introduction or a follow-up lesson plan.
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Interactive
Roy the Zebra

Roy the Zebra: Words That Rhyme With Cat

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Help Belinda the Chicken collect her fruit by clicking on the apples, finding the ones that rhyme with cat, and dragging them to her house. Links to lesson plans and printable materials are available.
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Professional Doc
Auburn University

Auburn University: Teaching Blending

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
How do you teach your students to develop a blending ability through phonics instruction? This site features information to help get you started in your quest for this goal. According to this article you can begin with rhyming. Come and...
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Unit Plan
Free Reading

Free Reading: Rhyme Around Baseball Activity

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
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...
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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
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Cookies and Rhyme

For Teachers K
This lesson will help students reinforce reading readiness skills (rhyming) with a chant and activities. After reading the story,Who Took The Cookies From The Cookie Jar, the students will recite the word that rhymes with a word from the...
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Professional Doc
Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: By Car, Train, or Bus! The Sounds of Language on the Go

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Come and check out this awesome pre-reading resource. This site offers examples of simple word games you can play with kids to increase their ability to recognize and use letters and sounds. Try these games the next time you're in the...
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Lesson Plan
Los Angeles County Office of Education

Teams: Distance Learning: Recognizing Rhyme

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This site from the TEAMS Distance Learning provides a K-1 activity: "Quick test you can give your students to see if they can tell when words rhyme and when they do not."