Students learn to sing the song, "A-Hunting We Will Go" with the original verses and learn to sing several new verses that support rhyming concepts. They then brainstorm pairs of rhyming words to create their own verses for the song. As a follow up activity, students can create original verses using other simple rhyming songs as a framework.

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This first grade reading video lesson models how to separate the individual sounds in phonetically sound words.  The instructor also reviews certain sight words for students to practice reading.

This resource from the Virginia Department of Education includes brief activities to support phonological awareness. Activities to support student learning in the areas of listening, rhyme, word awareness, syllable awareness, and phonemic awareness (including phoneme blending, deletion, and substitution) are all included.

A multi-age primary classroom teacher uses formative assessment as a barometer of student learning. She records anecdotal notes about her students' reading progress within an assessment notebook and references the notes for future instruction.