English Language Arts — Kindergarten

Sorting with Old Mother Hubbard

In Mother Goose in use: Rhymes that teach, page 6

In this kindergarten lesson plan, students use the nursery rhyme "Old Mother Hubbard" to practice sorting objects according to their properties, and practice reading by reciting a familiar nursery rhyme while following the text.

Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts and Mathematics)

By Lisa Wright.

Sizing up Sam the Scarecrow

Students will integrate measurement as a math activity during "S" week as they talk about Scarecrows and the Season Fall.

Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts and Mathematics)

By Marsha Thomas.

Rhyming with Jack and Jill

In Mother Goose in use: Rhymes that teach, page 4

In this kindergarten lesson plan, students develop phonemic awareness by completing rhyming riddles.

Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts and Healthful Living)

By Lisa Wright.

Painting the alphabet

After working on numerous letter names and sounds, the children will use a paint program to draw a picture and write the word to name the picture. The pictures will be printed out to make a class book or alphabet page.

Format: lesson plan (grade K Computer/Technology Skills and English Language Arts)

By Jackie White, Kathy Moore, Kelley Turner, and Mike Christopher.

Moving with Hey Diddle Diddle

In Mother Goose in use: Rhymes that teach, page 2

In this kindergarten lesson, students use the nursery rhyme "Hey Diddle Diddle" to discuss basic facts about the moon and to perform a series of basic movements.

Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts and Healthful Living)

By Lisa Wright.

Matching with The Little Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe

In Mother Goose in use: Rhymes that teach, page 10

In this kindergarten lesson, students participate in a pattern-matching activity based on the nursery rhyme "The Little Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe."

Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts and Mathematics)

By Lisa Wright.

Look and listen: Exploring the five senses

This group of shared reading lessons is based on the book Look by Jillian Cutting. They are designed to be used as a part of an integrated classroom unit on the five senses.

Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts)

Life cycle of painted lady butterflies

Students will make a chart of the life cycle of the painted lady butterflies that the class observes over a period of several days.

Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts and Science)

By Anne Allen.

Letter recognition with Alphabet Band and Express

This activity will reinforce letter recognition along with letter order. Students will watch a video, listen to stories and play CD games on the computer to aid in recognition of alphabet letters, sounds and order.

Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts)

By Levrah Hall.

Letter books

Kindergarten children are usually familiar with beginning sound "ABC" books with texts such as "A is for apple." In this activity, repeated for each consonant letter, art, writing, conventional spelling, and reading are combined to create a personal "Letter Book" for each child.

Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts)

By Clara McKenzie.

Learning numbers with Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary

In Mother Goose in use: Rhymes that teach, page 5

In this kindergarten lesson plan, students use the nursery rhyme "Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary" to develop phonemic awareness by rhyming words and participate in a number-matching activity to learn about ordinal numbers.

Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts and Mathematics)

By Lisa Wright.

Learning about animals with Three Blind Mice

In Mother Goose in use: Rhymes that teach, page 7

In this kindergarten lesson plan, students listen to the nursery rhyme "Three Blind Mice." They compare mice to other animals based on their size and think of foods that begin with different letters of the alphabet.

Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts, Healthful Living, and Science)

By Lisa Wright.

Keys to computing the alphabet

This lesson gives the students practice in locating the alphabet on the computer keyboard, using the space bar, printing their product, and finally, using these printed letters to make words.

Format: lesson plan (grade K Computer/Technology Skills and English Language Arts)

By Jessie Smith.

Fishing for beginning sounds

This lesson introduces the beginning sounds for picture words.

Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts)

By Deborah Kirby.

Finding rhyming patterns with The Crooked Man

In Mother Goose in use: Rhymes that teach, page 13

In this kindergarten lesson, students will use the nursery rhyme "The Crooked Man" to recognize rhyming patterns, practice writing the letter "i", and discuss different kinds of animal homes.

Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts and Mathematics)

By Lisa Wright.

Classifying transportation objects

In this lesson the students will sort, classify, and label transportation items by various attributes.

Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts and Mathematics)

By LuAda Skaggs.

Bouncing bubbles

Students will listen to Bubbles Bubbles by Mercer Mayer and a bubble poem before exploring the joys of bubble blowing. Students will observe bubbles, discuss their observations and create illustrations and stories to share.

Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts, Mathematics, and Science)

By Karen Rice.

Resources on the web

Writing poetry with rebus and rhyme

This ReadWriteThink lesson uses Jean Marzollo's book I Love You: A Rebus Poem (Scholastic, 2000) as a model to use rebus writing to create wonderful poetry; however, any of the rebus books included on the accompanying book list would be appropriate... (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 English Language Arts)

Provided by: ReadWriteThink

Word wizards: Students making words

This ReadWriteThink lesson uses an active, hands-on activity in which students learn how to look for patterns in words and how to make new words by adding or changing the sequence of letters. Authentic literature provides an excellent framework for teaching... (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 English Language Arts)

Provided by: ReadWriteThink

Word sorts for beginning and struggling readers

In this lesson that introduces short vowel word families, the teacher begins the lesson by reading The Magic Hat and modeling strategies for making predictions using illustrations and rhyming words. The teacher then explains... (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 English Language Arts)

Provided by: ReadWriteThink