Search, Locate, and Evaluate Information on the World Wide Web” Project
Sunshine State Standard: L.A.K 1.2.3 The student will recognize and produce words that rhyme.
Grade Kindergarten
Ten Web Sites:
1. http://teams.lacoe.edu/documentation/classrooms/patti/k-1/activities/rhyming.html
2. http://www.enchantedlearning.com/rhymes/matching/
3. http://www.life123.com/parenting/education/preschool/teaching-rhyming-words-in-kindergarten.shtml
4. http://prekinders.com/rhyme/
5. http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/bll/reggie/index.htm
6. http://www.atozteacherstuff.com/pages/415.shtml
7. http://kindergarten.preschoolrock.com/kindergarten-prep---reading-skills/kindergarten-literacy-activities-using-rhymes
8. http://prek-8.com/preschool/readRhyming.php
10. http://vocabulary.co.il/blog/learning_vocabulary/learning-vocabulary-with-rhyming-words/
Top 3 Web Sites
1. http://www.enchantedlearning.com/rhymes/matching/1/
My first selection for my top three web sites is sponsored by Enchanted Learning. This web site offers both free samples and charged samples. My focus benchmark dealt with rhyming words. This web site offer free printable worksheets that teach rhyming through the usage of pictures. These worksheets not only practice rhyming words, but also reinforce sight- word recognition. This also encourages the expansion of multiple named pictures. For example on the first worksheet they use a picture of a bucket. On the worksheet, the correct use would be a pail not a bucket. This allows students to recognize that a picture can have multiple names for the same object. There are multiple worksheets with pictures. These worksheets can also be used as a coloring activity. An additional bonus is that the worksheets, instead of being printed, could be projected on the board or copied on a transparency to be used in whole group instruction.
2. http://esl.about.com/od/childrenslessonplans/a/readrhyme.htm
My second top three web sites would be the lesson plan posted by About.com. This web site focuses on a lesson that is intended for ELL/ESL students. Living in Miami, we often find students that are ELL/ESL who are learning English as a second language. This lesson plan demonstrates how to use a rhyming game to help expand the English language. The game involves drawing a card from a pre-set deck created by the teacher, pronouncing the name f the picture on the card, and then creating another word that rhymes with the pictured word. If the player cannot find a rhyming word, the opposing team can try to “win” the card. One reason that I like this activity so much is because this game is usable by any age group. Although my target benchmark is for kindergarten, this activity can be used by any grade of students just learning the English language.
3 http://teams.lacoe.edu/documentation/classrooms/patti/k-1/activities/rhyming.html
My Third top 3 web site is sponsored by the Los Angles County Education offices. This web site focuses on activities that once again reinforce the rhyming activities, but it offers a variety of activities that can be used as a progression of learning, or as tool to differentiate the instruction for advanced learners. There are a variety of activities ranging from clapping/ snapping to rhyming words, to sit down if your hear a rhyming word, to the advance instruction of creating a rhyming word book. This offers a variety of methods of learning to those who like to work alone, to those who learn by participating with a teacher or whole group, to creative outlet for the students who are more advanced than some of the other students. This web site continue to focus on the skill of rhyming, but allows the teacher to access activities that world meet the needs of the different learning needs of her students.
