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1. 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.
2. 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?
3. 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.
4. Classroom Resources | Grade   K  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
   Growing Readers and Writers with Help from Mother Goose
   Watch Mother Goose work her magic! This lesson uses nursery rhymes to help emergent readers remember the letters and their sounds and identify word chunks.
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. Professional Development | Grades   K – 6  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
   Poets in Practice
   This article discusses the need to engage students and teachers in active poetry writing.
10. 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.

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