Kelly's Kindergarten
June Daily Activities
This is an absolute must-have resource for early elementary teachers! Here you'll find a collection of activities and worksheets for each day of the month of June, with topics ranging from ordering numbers on a calendar or identifying...
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Let Us Rhyme With Madeline
Listen to the book Madeline, and identify rhyming words with learners as they hear them in the book. Learners will engage in a class discussion about rhyming words. After listening to Madeline, they will circle pictures of words that...
Florida Center for Reading Research
Phonological Awareness: Rhyme, Rhyme Closed Sort
A rhyming activity challenges scholars to sort picture cards according to their rhyme. Four picture cards line up across the top of a pocket chart. Learners take turns choosing from a face-down stack of picture cards and sort them...
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Rhyming Objects
Students explore language arts by reading Dr. Seuss stories in class. In this word play lesson, students identify the rhymes in both Dr. Seuss and Nursery Rhyme stories. Students utilize flash cards with rhymes written on them to play a...
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Make a Word: Long U by Starfall
Students explore language arts by participating an on-line grammar activity. In this letter U lesson, students discuss the uses for the letter U in the English language and the different sounds that can be made from the vowel. Students...
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How to Write a “Roses are Red” Valentine’s Day Poem
Compose a Valentine's Day poem! Practicing their rhyming skills, scholars follow the traditional format to create a happy poem for a friend or family member.
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Animated Alphabet
Learners explore English by completing an interactive language history activity. In this word recognition activity, students discuss word formations and the phonetic relationship between letters. Learners identify the origin of...
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Say and Spell Consonant Digraph Board Game
Students download from a website to learn about digraphs. In this digraphs lesson, students download a digraphs game to practice digraphs.
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Sound Blending Lesson Plan
Mr. Snowman wants to help emerging readers understand compound words, so he segments some familiar words to help them see that they are made of two distinct words. Learners repeat the words, both segmented and blended, and observe them...
Core Task Project
Whatif by Shel Silverstein
What a skillful way to incorporate Shel Silverstein, a wonderful author, into the classroom. Composed of three tasks, children are led through a series of text-dependent questions that force them to unveil the meaning of Silverstein's...
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Web-Based Practice
Learners explore technology by participating in a word structure activity. In this grammar lesson, students utilize the Writing Center computer software to practice keyboarding while identifying word formations in class. Learners...
Pennsylvania Department of Education
What's My Sound?
Students follow a power point presentation to practice the sounds each letter of the alphabet make. In this 'what's my sound' lesson plan, students apply word recognition strategies and demonstrate listening and comprehension skills to...
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Letter Recognition Flash Games for Kids
Students explore the alphabet by completing an on-line letter identification activity. In this phonetics lesson, students utilize the website www.literarycenter.net and listen to word sounds as they identify the spelling of the...
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Learn-to-Read Pumpkin Patch
Students practice identifying and pronouncing the short letter "u" sound. In this phonetic awareness instructional activity, students access the Starfall.com website and follow the directions on the screen to reinforce the short "u"...
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T'was the Night Before Christmas (Poem)
Young scholars read the poem T'was the Night Before Christmas, and then partner with another student to complete a poem of their own based on the original. The new poem has missing words and students fill in the missing parts of speech...
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Vowels Short And Long: Farmer Pete
Second graders study short and long vowel sounds. They hear each word or picture by clicking on it to hear each rhyme. There is also the option of letting some students type their own rhyming sentence in this program. They complete a...
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Memory and Learning
Learners identify parts of the brain and what each part does. In this brain anatomy lesson, students participate in activities that focus on the job of each part of the brain co connect the task to the brain section. Learners make a...
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Picture Hunt: R Control O
Pupils use the r controlled o sound to sound out words and identify items and people in a picture. In this r controlled o lesson plan, students use the internet to complete their activity.
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Number Recognition Games
Students explore number sense by participating in a math recognition activity. In this number identification lesson, students practice pronouncing names of numbers and matching the number with an amount of objects. Students practice...
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Shape Recognition Games
Students explore shapes. In this math activity, students identify basic geometric shapes. Students complete activities in which they identify shapes, symbols and letters. Students draw geometric shapes.
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Color Recognition Game
Students study color words. In this math lesson, students complete a variety of activities on the computer in which they identify colors and color words.
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Patterns in Poetry: Part 2 -- Sound
Young scholars understand a variety of poems listening for sound letter correspondence, rhyme scheme, assonance, and alliteration. In this language arts instructional activity, students practice listening and reading skills to complete...
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The Couplet
Pupils create the sounds of a thunderstorm with a symphony of body percussion to compose a couplet about rain using Microsoft word to publish. They are introduced to rhyming dictionaries and thesauruses and use Internet sources for...