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Say It Again!
In this language arts learning exercise, students practice using synonyms by deciphering references to well-known fairy tales and nursery rhymes. Example: Unique Individual Mortally Injured in Fall (Humpty Dumpty Sat on a Wall.)
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Poems: Itsy Bitsy Spider
Act out the "Itsy Bitsy Spider" rhyme with youngsters. Learners observe visual instructions before completing the corresponding actions, then draw the spider into a scene. Finally, they write down rhyming words that have the ai spelling...
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Identifying and Generating Rhyming Words, Memory
Engage your class in a game where they look for matching rhymes. They will flip over cards and look for rhyming words. If the words match they keep the cards. If they words do not match they turn the cards over. Additionally, they will...
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Odd Ones Out
Some of these words don't rhyme; scholars determine which ones as they examine four sets of images with the vowel sound /e/. For each set, they circle the words that don't rhyme with the first image. Be sure kids know what these images...
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Gwendolyn the Library Fairy
Students read a story. For this rhyming words lesson, students learn what rhyme is, read Gwendolyn the Library Fairy and identify rhyming words.
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Introduce Vocabulary: "I Can't," Said the Ant (Cameron)
With both rhyme and a fun storyline, Polly Cameron's story "I Can't," Said the Ant is a useful resource for vocabulary in context. Emerging readers focus on five key words: cooperate, mend, nimble, sling, and trickle. After a brief...
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Poems
Thud! Squiff! Create sound effects with words. Introduce your youngsters to onomatopoeia with these fun, rainy-day poems. They write down sound words, discussing rhythm and rhyme. You can also incorporate the author's use of capital...
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Learning Phonics Worksheet - Things That Rhyme
In this rhyming worksheet, students look at and say the name of the first object in each row. They then find the thing in the row that rhymes and circle it. There are 3 questions on this page.
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Nursery Rhyme Mania
Students become familiar with many different nursery rhymes. They use nursery rhymes for a variety of creative activities including writing, singing, poetry and acting.
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Halloween Rhymes
For this Halloween activity worksheet, students use their language skills to solve 14 rhyme riddles that are related to Halloween.
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Rhyme Time
Students discover rhyming words. In this rhyming lesson, students read A Giraffe and a Half. Students examine rhyming words from the story. Working in small groups, students create rhymes in response to a prompt from the teacher.
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Children's Rhymes
In this English Language children's rhymes worksheet, student enhance their vocabulary and speaking skills by practicing the rhymes 'Polly Put the Kettle On' and 'Hush Little Baby.'
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Ice Cream
Help your children discover the verbal ostinato pattern of a rhyme. Learners sing a rhyme about ice cream, practice it several times, then divide into groups to sing the rhyme analyzing the patterns and rhythm.
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See, Say, Write and Read!
Support children with developing their reading, writing, and spelling skills. Children start by reading and writing the words the, can, and jump before reading three sentences describing animals that can jump.
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Rhyming Words: Ball and Wall
Preschoolers and kindergartners can identify the pictures that do not rhyme with the lead image. They say each of the four words and then find the image that doesn't belong. In addition, they trace the words ball and wall.
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Animal Rhymes
In this animal activity worksheet, students use their language skills to solve 14 rhyme riddles that are related to different animals.
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Mox's Shop
In this short vowel /o/worksheet, learners complete four picture clues with a word that rhymes with fog.
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Rhymes
Learners complete rhyming word activities. In this rhyming words lesson plan, students play an online game for rhyming words and recite a well known nursery rhyme as a class. Learners pick out words from the poem that rhyme and...
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Rhyme Game
Students match rhyming picture cards. They use a musical timer and each student has the opportunity to show his or her card to the class. They must match them and show them to the teacher.
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School-Home Links: Make a Rhyme
In this rhyme creation worksheet, learners learn to make a rhyme. Students point to each word and say it aloud. Learners then say a word that rhymes and write it on the line. Parents or guardians must sign the worksheet.
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Nursery Rhymes
Students copy a memorized nursery rhyme on to writing paper. They illustrate their writing and the finished piece is posted for conferences or Back-to-School night.
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Write Simple Rhymes
First graders observe that rhyming words have different beginnings, but the same endings by viewing examples on the overhead projector. They say the beginnings of the words that go with the correct endings. They then come up one at a...
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Board Game: Rhymes With, Begins With, Ends With, Opposite Of
In this language arts board game learning exercise, students play a game with one or more classmates. Each space landed on requires students to say a word that rhymes with, begins with, ends with, or is the opposite of a given word or...
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Introduce Vocabulary: Miss Spider's Tea Party (Kirk)
Learning new vocabulary words is best done in the context of an engaging story like David Kirk's Miss Spider's Tea Party. New readers (or almost-readers) focus on any of 12 new words: conceal, courtesy, demand, descend, dread, fragile,...