Reading for Intermediate and Advanced Learners, Fall, 2011

I absolutely love this website. It is a very good resource and tool for teachers to use in their own curriculum. It is very easy to access and offers a ton of information. Educators are able to pull up a very detailed lesson plan in which he/she may utilize in their classroom.
I found a lesson plan: "Word Recognition Strategies Using Nursery Rhymes." It is a cute lesson plan that can be spread out over 3-5 days and incorporates technology, in which I really like. I am a Kindergarten teacher and this lesson is perfect for the age group in which I educate every day.
Student objectives consist of reciting nursery rhymes and other familiar children songs, identifying words with identical endings, brainstorming words that rhyme, categorizing words that belong to certain word families, and access internet to read nursery rhymes and identify word families.
On the first day we would read the popular poem "Humpty Dumpty" which would be typed out on the Activ Board.I would first read it to the students, then I would read each line as they repeat, then we would read it as a group. Drawing the students' attention to the first two lines of the poem, I would ask the students to find me two words whose endings were the same, encouraging them to identify each word by coming up and underlining them on the board (such as fall & wall). By blending the letter sounds together, I would demonstrate how to sound out the word. I would also allow the students to brainstorm how the two words were similiar. After pointing out the three letters the two words had in common (-a-l-l) I would ask the students to come up with other words that rhymed with fall & wall focusing on the fact that only the beginning letter sounds different when rhyming.
Throughout the rest of the week, we would do this with other nursery rhymes such as "Hickory, Dickory Dock" and "Jack and Jill." By the end of the week students would be introduced and more familiar with word families in which they could access Kindergarten friendly websites such as "Starfall" to practice their letter sounds, blends, and rhymes.