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Dr. Seuss - Make Time for Rhymes

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Read the story Green Eggs and Ham to practice phonemic awareness, rhyming, and writing skills with emerging readers. They will match oral words to printed words, create a graphic organizer, and the use rhyming words in an original composition. This lesson includes web links, a writing rubric, materials list, and suggested interventions for those who need extra support.

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rhymes, green eggs and ham, dr. seuss, children's literature, phonemic awareness, phonemes, rhyming words, sight words, phonics, emergent reading, beginning reading, word recognition

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rhyming words, green eggs and ham, phonemic awareness, sight words, rhyme, rhymes, add visuals, add images, english language arts
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Pre-K - 1st
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English Language Arts
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