Curated OER
Mice are Nice 80
Students complete a variety of mouse-themed activities. They listen to stories, recite poetry, identify rhyming words, write sentences, create art projects, take a survey and design an original mousetrap.
Curated OER
Eensy Weensy Spider Lesson Plan
Students create their own versions of The Eensy-Weensy Spider. In this creative writing lesson, students read The Eensy-Weensy Spider and imagine what else the spider could do. Students then draw a picture depicting the spider engaged...
Curated OER
Teaching Science with a Smile
Learners study science concepts as they are presented in poetic form. They write and present their own science poems to parents during Open House.
Curated OER
Art About Me- The Skin You Live In
Students read the text The Skin You Live In by Michael Tyler. For this literacy lesson, students discuss the characters in the text and the various shades of skin they observed on each page. Students read the beautiful descriptions of...
Curated OER
Alligator Craft Paper Bag Puppet
Students make paper bag puppets. They use the puppets as a story teller and reader. Students use the puppets to ask questions during and after reading. They assemble their own puppet. Students use the puppets to introduce new themes,...
Curated OER
African Animals A-Z
African animals A-Z are on parade in this activity, which provides teachers with a year's worth of coloring and spelling sheets for little writers. Popular animals, such as dolphins and elephants, have their own coloring pages, as well...
Curated OER
Alliteration
In this alliteration worksheet, 4th graders write alliterations with their first names, find rhyming patterns in poems, and more. Students complete 4 activities.
Curated OER
Tongue Twisters
Second graders read the poem, "Betty Botter" and give their opinion of it. They discover what a tongue twister is and read the poem out loud together. Then as a class they read "Peter Piper" and discuss the similarities of the two poems.
Curated OER
Poetry
Students reflect on a news report through poetry. Students write a poem based on this week's news events. Students share poems with each other. Students reflect on a poem of their choosing.
Curated OER
Forms of Poetry
Learners identify distinguishing features of poetry. They identify and use literary terminology including symbol, theme, simile, and alliteration. They recognize the effects of language.
Curated OER
Reading Recall
Second graders review the vowe-consonant-e pattern in association with reading fluently. After identifying the changes made to a phoneme when the letter e is added at the end of the word, 2nd graders practice reading a phonetically...
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: The House That Jack Built and Other Nursery Rhymes
A scanned copy of the 1895 publication of The House that Jack Built and Other Nursery Rhymes, a book of poems and stories for children.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: The House That Jack Built
A scanned copy of the 1880 publication of The House that Jack Built, a nursery rhyme book for children.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: The House That Jack Built by Randolph Caldecott
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book The House that Jack Built by Randolph Caldecott (1890), a picture book of the nursery rhyme.
Just Books Read Aloud
Just Books Read Aloud: Little Red Riding Hood From Revolting Rhymes
A video of the book "Little Red Riding Hood from Revolting Rhymes", written by Robert Dahl, and illustrated by Quentin Blake. Just Books Read Aloud is a site that includes children's books read aloud by normal (but enthusiastic) readers.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: How Jessie Was Lost
A scanned copy of the 1880 publication of The House that Jack Built, a nursery rhyme book for children.
University of Michigan
The Mother Goose Pages: Nursery Rhymes
An outstanding resource to get all your favorite Mother Goose nursery rhymes. Activities included are suggestions on reading and teaching nursery rhymes to children at varying ages. Has a list of recommended resources that go along with...
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Family Reading Activities
This site features family reading activities that will guide parents with their children's reading development.