Five things you need to know about how to teach rhyming to kids in real, meaningful ways. Teaching rhyming doesn't need to be overly complicated!

What rhymes with "rain"? This preschool worksheet uses words and pictures to help your child practice rhyming simple words.

Print this free kindergarten assessment pack to use as end of the year testing for your kindergarten students. This is a great way to see where your students are at, and find any areas for development.

As we work on more comprehension strategies in my classroom, I've noticed that many of my students don't know what the word "prediction" means! So, I hurried and created a mini-lesson to help! First, you introduce what predicting means {guessing is what I compare it to} and use these cards to hang on the board: Then, you tell them that when they predict what is going to happen in a story, they can say one of the following: We then read the book, Do you Want to Be My Friend? By Eric Carle. {source} This is a perfect book to predict! The mouse is looking for a friend. On each page it gives a hint as to what animal he will ask to be his friend {it shows their tail}. I have my kiddos raise their hand if they can predict what animal it might be. They will say: I predict... or I bet... or I think... After that, we practice our predicting skills! I use these animal posters and cover up most of the picture and have them predict what animal it is. {so when you download this mini-lesson, you'll have to cut out your pictures and find a piece of paper to cover up most of the picture} They record each animal on their recording sheet. Afterward, we go through to see if their predictions were correct. Click {HERE} to download the predicting mini-lesson! Oh and I have some reading responses that I put on my TpT store for Free {11 pages!!!!!}! Go grab them {here}. Ok...like the title of this post said...I've got one rhyming/matching game. Some of my sweeties are having a really hard time with rhyming {I've never really had a problem with it in years past}. I'll say, what rhymes with {mop} and they'll say {cat}. It's quite frustrating, but I just smile REAL big and say, no let's try again. Needless to say, a few do not have rhyming down quite yet. Here's a rhyming/matching game! {click the picture to download for free} Ok... so I've done rhyming games, word families, and songs....NOW WHAT? How can I help my little sweeties with rhyming when they just aren't getting it? HELP! clipart and/or fonts copyright DJ Inkers clipart copyright thistlegirldesigns.com clipart copyright scrappindoodles.com

Nursery rhymes for midlife? Why not? Fairy Tales definitely give “old Hags” a bad rap. Let me walk you through an 18th century recap.

Hink pinks are word riddles that help develop vocabulary, rhyming awareness and critical thinking. They are also really fun. Hink pinks are one syllable rhyming words (ex. What is the hink pink for a large hog? a big pig). Hinky pinkies are two syllable rhyming word pairs (ex. What is the hinky p...

Hey everyone, I'm very sorry for my absence from blogging. I am right in the middle of finishing up 9 weeks of maternity sub plans!! (I only get 6 weeks of maternity, but because my 1st baby surprised us 3 weeks early, I have to be ready just in case.) I have a bunch of stuff I want to share with you, so please accept my apology for being gone for so long. Follow along as I play a game of "Blogging Catch Up!" * * * * * Rachelle just shared her awesome Substitute Survival Kit (which I love and am totally using a couple of her pages!). I wish I had a substitute pack of sorts to share with you too, but everything I've made for my maternity plans is so specific to my class/school that I'm afraid nothing will be applicable to anyone else. I do have a cute binder cover that I can share with you, if you'd like. :) (Clip art by Thistlegirl Designs) * * * We just had our BIG state writing assessment. Let me tell you, my life for the past 2 months has revolved around persuasive writing. It is so nice to have the assesment over! I won't know my students' scores for a little while, but I am pretty confident that they ROCKED it! I do want to share some Persuasive Writing stuff with you all, but I'm still putting some finishing touches on everything. In the meantime, have you ever heard of a TAP F? I never had until my new team member (thanks Kathy!) introduced me to it this year. It's basically a way to brainstorm your persuasive writing. You teach your kids how to make a TAP F and you train them to do it all on their own. After weeks of practice, your students can do ALL of this all by themselves. This is just an example of what one of my struggling writers produced. I was blown away! Here's the quick explanation of a TAP F: Have your students fold a blank piece of paper into thirds. They write the letters TAP F down the left hand side (T=Topic, A=Audience, P=Purpose and F=Format), they make a T chart for pros and cons on the right side, and the middle is for a mini outline of their paper. For the state assessment, I read the testing instructions, said they could begin, and my students got busy working on their TAP F's. It was amazing to see. The quality of the essays they produced was outstanding. I can't wait to see the results!! * * * For fun (and to reinforce synonyms) my class has been playing the Hink Pink game. They LOVE it! If you have a subscription to Super Teacher Worksheets, they have a bunch of different worksheets you can download. * * * As always, I'm behind in my social studies teaching. I am now just barely finishing the Revolutionary War. My students did this cute project where they wrote about the differences between the American and the British soldiers and drew a picture of each. Their work turned out so cute! Oops... sorry the above picture is so blurry... Here is a copy of this download for you. Since I'm sure you're all much farther along in your history teaching, I have also included a similar project where they compare Union and Conferderate soldiers from the Civil War. * * * In math, we just finished up our BIG fraction unit and are now moving on to Geometry. Since Geometry is so rich in vocabulary, I always give my students a blank vocabulary sheet that they can glue into their math journals to help keep track of all the new words we learn. Here's a copy, if you want one. * * * Well... We've been doing tons of other things in class too, but I have about a million things on my baby to-do list that need to get done. I promise to try to blog more in the near future. Oh, and please expect some darling pictures of my little cutie when she gets here! :) She should be here in 3-6 weeks! SO EXCITING!!

Practice rhyming and building early reading fluency skills with this fun and free CVC Rhyming Words Board Game! It's hands-on and easy to prep!

Practice major standards every morning in a fun, consistent format which promotes independent work! Easily differentiate for your students with two levels of the morning work pages provided. These morning work pages include practice of addition, subtraction, missing addends, weather, date, seasons, skip counting, letters, colors, shapes, capitalization, end marks, and beginning sounds. Your students will love to say their names with the affirmations each day and have fun with the seasonally themed practice. Each month spirals and builds so that your students can be confident and independent while new standards are slowly revealed. You will love the spiral review, consistent, no prep pages, and the differentiation that will make your life easier. Go over each box on the page with your students daily until they know the format. You will need to model and directly teach for a few days to a few weeks. Students should then be able to work on these independently so that you are free to take attendance and do other important morning tasks. September Morning Work includes: 21 no prep morning work pages* 21 no prep differentiated morning work pages* Morning work Hints Pages New Digital Option for Google Slides-links are included in the PDF for you to make copies of the new digital activities to your Google Drive You may also use the new Easel Activities if you prefer your students to write on the digital page. After purchase, click "Create Activity" on the top, right of the page. For more information on how to use Easel by TpT CLICK HERE. What teachers are saying: "This morning work is perfect! It is engaging for students and encourages a variety of practice. This builds student independence and supports a review of first grade concepts." Michelle L "I started using these this year for morning work with my first grade students. They are great! It took a few days for them to understand how to do them, but now they are just doing amazing! They are great quick reviews for the students and spot checks for my strugglers." Michele M *The differentiated pages include regular addition and subtraction. The higher level pages have missing addends instead of regular addition and subtraction *These morning work pages are intended for first graders, but you might find these helpful for review in second grade, for advanced kindergarten students, and for students in special education and ESL/ESOL classes. You might also like: First Grade Morning Work Mega Bundle Fall First Grade Morning Work Bundle September First Grade Morning Work October First Grade Morning Work November First Grade Morning Work Terms of Use This resource is for your personal classroom or homeschool use only. You may not share this resource with others. You may make copies for your class and use it in your classroom only. You may use it in Google Classroom or a similar site that is only available to your students and does not have public access. You may not distribute this to other teachers, your grade-level, parent, school or district (or share with anyone else.) You may not add this to a website or share it in any other form. If you purchase this under a license like School Access or other, those terms apply. If you have questions, please email me at [email protected]. Additional licenses are available in my store for a discounted price! Follow me for the latest new products and updates Find me on: Facebook Pinterest Instagram

Pinky is 5 years, Chaos is 3 years, Wild One is 17 months, and Sprout is 1 month Counting and Numbers We read two great books about numbers this week. The first, aimed more at the younger kids, was 1,2,3 to the Zoo by Eric Carle. It's a simple animal counting story, but, as with all Eric Carle books, is beautifully illustrated. The second book we read was a new one to me, but has quickly become one of my favorites - Numbers, Counting in the Natural World. Filled with beautiful nature pictures, this book counts to twelve and discusses sequence, comparison (lot, little, none; smallest to largest, etc), greater than and less than, evens and odds, addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. I have the feeling we will be reading this book a lot! Math Activities: Pinky has decided that she really wants to learn to count to 100 before she starts Kindergarten. She knows the basic pattern but forgets the 10 place holders. I printed out a number chart from 1-100 for her to count with. I highlighted the 10 units and she practiced skip counting another love of hers) to help reinforce her memorization. You can find the number chart here at apples4theteacher and the skip counting charts here at Homeschool Creations. Chaos and I made sticker math charts together. He's gotten very good at counting, and I was surprised at how interested he was in completing the charts with me. The idea for this activity came from this post at Ramblings of a Crazy Woman. Magnets: We had a lot of fun exploring magnets and their properties this week. We started by exploring our new magnet sensory box. Next we tried an activity I read about on the Prekinders blog. Using a ruler, we placed a magnet marble at one end and slowly pushed our magnet wands toward it. We took guesses as to how far the marble would "jump" to the wand. We then experimented with different strength magnets to see which could make the marble jump the furthest. Our magnets - magnet wand, refrigerator magnet, a MagnaDoodle magnet and our magnetic cabinet lock "key" Our next activity (inspired by this post at Tinker Lab) was to see if the magnets would work through glass and water. We submerged a marble magnet and tried to retrieve it using our different magnets. Both the wand and the cabinet lock key were able to move the magnets. This was definitely the favorite activity for the kids. They loved "rescuing" the magnets over and over again. We also read two books about magnets: Magnet Power and What Makes a Magnet? We tried a few of the activities in each of these books which included magnetizing a needle, discovering North and South poles, making our own compass, and discovering that the refrigerator seal is magnetic (this was news to me too!). Finally, we decided to do some magnet painting!! This is such a fun project to do. We filled 4 small bowls with Crayola fingerpaint and added a magnet marble to each one. We put paper in the bottom of a shoe box and dropped in the magnet(s) of our choice. By moving the magnet wand on the underside of the box we were able to paint our pictures. Reading: Pinky continues to read the Bob books. I've noticed she has some trouble distinguishing the lowercase b, d, p and q. Using an idea I found here at Turning Ordinary into Extraordinary, I made a letter matching game for her to practice matching uppercase and lowercase letters. And since I had even more plastic eggs, I also made a few word family eggs to play with. The idea came from this post on Living and Learning Now. Other Reading Activities: This week we were also lucky enough to host Pete the Pigeon - a friend from Pinky's preschool class. He takes turns visiting each student during the school year. This was our second visit with Pete the Pigeon. The first time he visited he brought along Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus for us to read. This time he brought Pigeon Finds a Hot Dog. Pinky and Chaos both find the Pigeon stories hilarious. At the end of Pete's visit, we record what we did with him in the classroom journal and Pinky is able to share her story with her classmates. It is so much fun to read all the stories! This week Pigeon Pete joined Abby at dance class, Spanish class and was even able to attend Sunday School and sing in church! I think he had a good time. Also this week, Wild One had fun with her first sensory box - The Texture Box. She liked to cuddle the softer fabrics and had a fun game of emptying and refilling the bin over and over again. Finally, Pinky showed her how to use the squares as small blankets for her Little People. Speaking of Little People, Wild One had the best time playing with the Little People school bus this week. She would open and close all the doors, pull out the stop sign, and push it all around the house. She even let her baby dolls take a few rides. Sprout continues to grow bigger every day. I am amazed that she is a month old already. We spent a lot of time cuddling this week and spent some time on exploring her playmat (she has just started noticing the toys hanging from it). She surprised us all by rolling over from her belly to her back this week too! Here's one of my favorite pictures from this week. Sprout was crying so Wild One gave her back her pacifier and was stroking her cheek. So sweet! Linking up to:

How to Survive the 4th Quarter DASH! AKA What to use to keep kids working, while I reteach to others? You Quack me Up!

The packet begins with suggestions for reinforcing and enriching learning related to phonics, reading, and spelling. This includes 4 pages of words and pictures pairs with the EAR, EER, and ERE letter patterns. They can be cut out and used to play a memory game. They can also be grouped by rhyming w...

OK, I know you are here to get the FREEBIE. But yes, I am going to make you scroll through a shameless promotion to get it. I needed a little rhyming review game for quite a few of my sweeties back in January, so I made a game for all of them to play. I love games because they do much more than practice the target skill. When you play with two dice, you cover subitizing skills, adding fluency, and one to one counting on the game board. So we did rhyming and all that on this game board which YOU can have at the bottom of the post. Of course I saw this idea on Pinterest. I keep this container with the game markers in it. It's easy to reach at all times. I can use it with any roll the dice game board in the classroom. I use these colorful buttons as game markers. They work great! OK, here is the other game I am loving right now.... I made this game to help my sweet students practice teen numbers while building concepts of place value. It is a perfect time of year for this with my students. This game uses problem cards like the ten frame one above. Kids choose a problem card and then cover the numeral it represents with a cute game card like these.... This game comes with 4 different problem cards so you can play it four ways. Ten frames like above.... Base ten blocks ... tally marks,,, and expanded form. This game also comes with four different recording sheets for use in the center or as independent practice in homework, morning work, etc. If you want to get the Valen-teens! game for your class you can find it on Teachers Pay Teachers. I will be playing this game twice next week in my class. OK, thanks for stopping by. Here's the Roll and Rhyme freebie. Just click on the image below to get it. It is a roll the dice, move your marker, make a rhyme game. Easy peasy lemon squeezy! Hope you and your students have fun! Happy Teaching!

Use this tool to assess different Phonological Awareness abilities including Rhyme, Alliteration, Isolation and more! You can use this Assessment Tool to see what skills children already have, plus, what skills they need specific instruction on. Monitor their progress as you assess them before, duri...

This cute regrouping rhyme is helpful for students learning how to subtract two digit numbers with regrouping. Students use this sheet as a reference to know which action to take depending on what numbers they are seeing. This resource is perfect for: Poster for math learning board Math folder insert for quick reference Send home for at-home practice Other 1st Grade Math Resources: First Grade Addition Strategies Jeopardy Math Review Jeopardy Creative Math Writing K-2 STEM Writing and Design Book

English spelling can be weird, and students often have trouble identifying the correct sounds for the different spelling patterns. ESL students in particular often have trouble noticing the difference in vowel sounds to be able to pronounce the words correctly. These activities will give your students lots of fun practice! Perfect for younger students or adult English learners. This activity pack contains: Rhyme Time Puzzles: Question: What do you do when you give part of your lunch to a panda? Answer: You SHARE with a BEAR! Students of all ages will love these fun rhyming puzzles. These are more challenging rhymes because each pair consists of two words that don’t necessarily look like they should rhyme. These help students become more aware of the spelling patterns that produce different vowel sounds. Students use the given clues with hints or synonyms to figure out a pair of rhyming words that can be placed into the answer blanks to reveal a short sentence or phrase. After they have completed all the rhyming pairs, there is a final short task to write a sentence with a new pair of rhyming words. ESL students will find these very helpful for words that they think are difficult to pronounce, but when paired with a rhyming word that they know how to say, they quickly see that it’s not so difficult. For example, many English learners have difficulty with the word BEAR, but when it’s paired with a rhyming word like SHARE, they have an easier time hearing, and in turn, pronouncing the correct vowel sound. Likewise, English language learners will probably be surprised to realize that SAID rhymes with FED and not PAID. You will also find that they discover new vocabulary and practice comprehension skills by working through the clues. There are 6 different puzzles in the basic set, with two versions each: one is slightly more challenging because there are extra words in the word bank. There are also 3 puzzles (taken from the words in the basic set) that are more challenging because there is no word bank. Two versions are included: one with the first letter of each rhyming word given, and one with no letters given. Vowel Sound Dominoes Students practice 12 different vowel sounds through a fun domino game where instead of dots, each domino contains words with different vowel sounds that are matched to similar sounds. Also included is a chart containing all the words used on the dominoes and grouped according to their respective vowel sounds so that students can review the words and vowel sounds before playing the game. Three color versions are included as well as black transparent frames (for printing on color paper) so that you can print multiple copies for your classroom without getting the sets mixed up. Print once and laminate, and you can use these sets over and over! Task Cards with Pronunciation Activities 20 Task cards with a variety of tasks related to pronunciation that will get your students thinking, and in many cases, using their creativity while practicing the concepts. Pronunciation Odd One Out Activity (printable or digital version) Digital Boom Cards: With these cards, students will encounter a group of five words, four of which have something in common related to pronunciation. As the students work through the activities, they will pronounce the words in the group to try to distinguish the sound that does not belong. Color-by-Code Activity: Same tasks as above, but in a printable activity. It was designed as a color-by-code activity, but an option is included to do the activity without the coloring component. 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One of my favorite things to teach in the library is Folktales. I had previously posted my activities with how to introduce Folktales with students on my blog here, but as I was teaching it again this year with 2nd grade, I decided to make some changes. I originally was going to... Read more

Rhymes with sky! Give your first grader practice sounding out, writing, and reading these six words with the y sound.