Students use the Match Patch activity in Reader Rabbit to match rhyming words. Create books modeled after stories that rhyme, like Each Peach, Pear, Plum, where students supply their own rhyming words. Students guess why they are lined up in this order. Try this with students whose names begin with the same first letter too. Display several objects with their names on them.
Students arrange the object in alphabetical order and write down the correct order.
Students use the Alphabet Dance activity in Reader Rabbit to put names in alphabetical order up to the second letter. After discussing how we use alphabetical order to locate information, students use phone books to look up several different items in the yellow pages. Use entries that are large and easy to locate. Students write down the page number where they found it. The Reader Rabbit program has the ability to keep score on each student's work which makes it a good tool for assessment.