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Click, clack, moo: Reading word family words

In this lesson, students learn to identify rimes or word families and apply their knowledge of these words to the decoding of new words. During a repeated read-aloud of Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type, the teacher stops... (Learn more)

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

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Generating rhymes: Developing phonemic awareness

Learning how to generate rhyme and recognizing rhyming patterns in language is an essential skill for emergent readers. Students should be able to manipulate words and sounds to create simple rhymes, which will help them recognize word and letter patterns... (Learn more)

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

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Getting the "ig" in pig: Helping children discover onset and rime

This lesson from ReadWriteThink incorporates literature, independent and cooperative learning, critical thinking, and hands-on activities to engage students in learning the “ig” rime. Students explore books and magazines for words that have... (Learn more)

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

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Growing readers and writers with help from Mother Goose

This ReadWriteThink lesson will help children grow as readers and writers using the familiar words and characters of nursery rhymes. Children will be encouraged to connect the characters with letters of the alphabet, letting them serve as hooks to help... (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts)

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Hey diddle, diddle! Generating rhymes for analogy-based phonics instruction

In this lesson from ReadWriteThink, 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 K–1 English Language Arts)

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Phonic generalizations in "Chrysanthemum"

This ReadWriteThink lesson uses an active, hands-on activity to teach students how to determine the common and alternative sounds for specific vowel combinations. Authentic literature provides an excellent framework for teaching decoding and spelling. The... (Learn more)

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

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Play with words: Rhyme & verse

Children of all ages enjoy listening to bouncy rhythms and reciting catchy rhymes. In this lesson, students will use their senses to experience poetry. Students will listen to poems and rhymes, clap out syllables, and sing along with familiar tunes. They... (Learn more)

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

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Poetry portfolios: Using poetry to teach reading and writing

Students learn to read and write when they have an active interest in what they are reading and writing about. This ReadWriteThink lesson supports students' exploration of language and writing skills as they read and dissect poetry. Through a weekly poem,... (Learn more)

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

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Reading everywhere with Dr. Seuss

The purpose of this ReadWriteThink lesson is to help students see places where they can read and enjoy books, such as on a trip to Grandma's, at the pool, or at the doctor's office. As they create a book modeled on the rhythm and rhyme of Green Eggs... (Learn more)

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

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Shared poetry reading: Teaching print concepts, rhyme, and vocabulary

Students study vocabulary, one-to-one matching, left-to-right directionality, and awareness of rhyme in reading using a shared exploration of a poem that includes peer interaction, hands-on experience with print, and a collaborative examination of new and... (Learn more)

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

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Teaching short vowel discrimination using Dr. Seuss rhymes

The study of common rimes, or word families, is vital to students' early reading and writing skills. Through the contrast of short vowel patterns, this ReadWriteThink lesson supports first- and second-grade students' use of analogy to apply their knowledge... (Learn more)

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

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Using the four-square strategy to define and identify poetic terms

This lesson from ReadWriteThink helps young students understand poetry. Use of the four-square strategy offers the student a systematic structure for defining poetic terms. Through the exploration of various poetry websites, students define alliteration,... (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 English Language Arts)

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Whole-to-parts phonics instruction: Teaching letter-sound correspondences

This lesson from ReadWriteThink uses whole-to-parts phonics instruction as an approach to beginning reading. Letter-sound correspondences are taught within a meaningful context, and in an explicit, systematic, and extensive manner. This lesson uses onset-rime... (Learn more)

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

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Word recognition strategies using nursery rhymes

This lesson from ReadWriteThink uses familiar nursery rhymes to draw attention to words that end with the same letters. Kindergarten and first-grade students are encouraged to create word family lists and compare them to words in different word families. (Learn more)

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

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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)

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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)

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