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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   1 – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Acrostic Poems: All About Me and My Favorite Things
   Students create acrostic poems using their names and the names of things that are important to them.
2. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Activity & Project
   Add Seasons to Rhyming Poems and Songs
   Choose favorite rhyming songs or nursery rhymes then replace the rhyming words with seasonal themes.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Dr. Seuss's Sound Words: Playing with Phonics and Spelling
   Boom! Br-r-ring! Cluck! Moo!—Everywhere you turn, you find exciting sounds. Students use these sounds to write their own poems based on Dr. Seuss's Mr. Brown Can MOO! Can You?
4. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Activity & Project
   Fantastically Fun Word Families
   Use the Word Mover tool to play with word families and listen for rhyme, then sort real and nonsense words, alphabetize the words, and create a story or poem using the words.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Let's Read It Again: Comprehension Strategies for English-Language Learners
   Help Spanish-speaking English-language learners unlock the mysteries of their new language by using a bilingual book to recognize unfamiliar words and construct meaning from the text.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
   Literacy Centers: Getting Started
   This lesson gives teachers resources and guidance to create reading, listening, computer, and poetry Literacy Centers in their own classrooms.
7. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Tip & How-To
   Make Time for Reading
   It's DEAR time! (Also known as time to Drop Everything and Read). Find out how making time to read with children every day can foster their love of books and help them learn to read.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
   Phonic Generalizations in Chrysanthemum
   Students learn about word families by reading Kevin Henkes's book Chrysanthemum, identifying words with certain vowel pair endings, and reading words with similar endings.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Whole-to-Parts Phonics Instruction: Teaching Letter-Sound Correspondences
   Students will find that learning onset and rime is a handy skill when they read the Jack and Jill rhyme.
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Word Recognition Strategies Using Nursery Rhymes
    Whether you sing or recite familiar nursery rhymes in this standard lesson, students will learn how to create and categorize words that have similar endings.

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