After reading “There’s a Wocket in My Pocket”, the students will be able to:
1. Identify rhyming word pairs.
2. Apply generalizations about the principle of onsets and rhymes.
3. Create and classify multiple lists of words, both real and nonsense, based on given rhymes.
Make class books as a follow up activity to this great Dr. Seuss book.
Boom! Br-r-ring! Cluck! Moo!—Everywhere you turn, you are bound to find exciting sounds. Students begin exploring these sounds through a read-aloud of Dr. Seuss’s Mr. Brown Can MOO! Can You? They then play with the sounds in their classroom, creating words that capture what they hear. Next, they explore sounds from selected Websites and record what they hear on a chart, using spelling strategies to help them. Finally, students create original cinquain poems using sound words.
Given a flip book with preprinted final sounds, students will write the initial sounds of rhyming words on left side flip pages. Using flip books, students will recognize rhyming words have the same final sound but different initial sounds.
These plans are developed to be used in a second grade class. They will be used during the month of March when the school is preparing to celebrate Dr. Seuss Day.