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A-Hunting We Will Go: Teaching Rhyming Through Musical Verse: Students brainstorm pairs of rhyming words and create their own verses for the song “A-Hunting We Will Go.” (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 English Language Arts and Computer Technology Skills); Provider: IRA/NCTE

Alphabetizing with original stories: In this lesson, students write original stories using alphabetical order. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 1–2 English Language Arts); Provider: IRA/NCTE

The big green monster teaches phonics in reading and writing: Students examine onset/rime patterns by generating word families, review sight words in the story, and play a card game to reinforce high-frequency vocabulary. This writing exploration allows an integrated application of phonics. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 English Language Arts); Provider: IRA/NCTE

Bingo! Using environmental print to practice reading: Emerging readers practice their reading skills using a variety of environmental print materials. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 1–2 English Language Arts); Provider: IRA/NCTE

Generating rhymes: Developing phonemic awareness: Helps students recognize and generate rhymes through songs, poems, and games. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 English Language Arts); Provider: IRA/NCTE

Getting the "ig" in Pig: Helping Children Discover Onset and Rime: Incorporates literature, independent and cooperative learning, critical thinking, and hands-on activities to engage students in learning the “ig” rime. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts); Provider: IRA/NCTE

Growing readers and writers with help from Mother Goose: Children connect characters with letters of the alphabet, letting them serve as hooks to help children remember the letters and their sounds and use that knowledge in their writing. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 English Language Arts); Provider: IRA/NCTE

Hey diddle, diddle! Generating rhymes for analogy-based phonics instruction: Shared reading, guided reading, and small, cooperative-group instruction are used in a first-grade classroom to informally assess students' ability to demonstrate awareness of rhyme or other visual similarities in words. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts); Provider: IRA/NCTE

I know that word! Teaching reading with environmental print: This lesson teaches students how to decode environmental print as as strategy for word recognition. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 English Language Arts); Provider: IRA/NCTE

Phoneme isolation: Building phonemic awareness: Students engage in games and chants to identify beginning and ending phonemes. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 English Language Arts); Provider: IRA/NCTE

Play with words: Rhyme & verse: Students will listen to poems and rhymes, clap out syllables, and sing along with familiar tunes. They will also use puppets and crafts to help recall and retell favorite poems. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 English Language Arts); Provider: National Endowment for the Humanities

Student of the day: Create sound/letter understanding with names: This lesson from ReadWritethink uses students' names and other concrete words to teach the conventions and terminology of print. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts); Provider: IRA/NCTE

Teaching audience through interactive writing: Students work together to create an invitation letter for a group of their peers. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 English Language Arts); Provider: IRA/NCTE

Teaching short vowel discrimination using Dr. Seuss rhymes: Through the contrast of short vowel patterns, this ReadWriteThink lesson supports first- and second-grade students' use of analogy to apply their knowledge of vowel sounds in reading and spelling new words. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 English Language Arts); Provider: IRA/NCTE

Using songwriting to build awareness of beginning letter sounds: Students explore consonant sounds and begin to develop lyrics to the tune of “Mary Had a Little Lamb.” (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 English Language Arts and Computer Technology Skills); Provider: IRA/NCTE

Whole-to-parts phonics instruction: Teaching letter-sound correspondences: This lesson uses whole-to-parts phonics instruction as an approach to beginning reading. The lesson supports cooperative and integrative learning where students and teacher learn together and carry out tasks collaboratively. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 English Language Arts); Provider: IRA/NCTE

Word sorts for beginning and struggling readers: These brief lessons use interaction and technology to introduce students to four short vowel word families. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 English Language Arts); Provider: IRA/NCTE

Writing poetry with rebus and rhyme: This lesson uses teaches rebus writing, which substitutes images for words in the text. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 English Language Arts); Provider: IRA/NCTE

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