PreKinders
Nursery Rhyme Posters
Ideal for coloring, class decoration, or a language arts center, these nursery rhyme posters are a great addition to your kindergarten class. Each poster provides the text of the nursery rhymes as well as a cute illustration.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Phonological Awareness: Sentence Segmentation, Nursery Rhymes
What makes a complete sentence? Words, of course! As your budding readers understand this relationship, guide them through this nursery rhyme activity. Scholars examine pictures of 10 familiar rhymes, mentally counting the words in the...
Poetry4kids
How to Write a Traditional “Mother Goose” Nursery Rhyme
There may be some little lambs, itsy bitsy spiders, and pumpkin eaters in your language arts class! An online poetry lesson takes learners through the steps of writing a nursery rhyme with easy-to-follow steps and explanatory examples.
Poetry4kids
How to Write a Fractured Nursery Rhyme
Scholars take a popular song or nursery rhyme and make it their own as they write a fractured nursery rhyme. Writers seek out a nursery rhyme's rhyming words and change them to create an original poem.
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Word Recognition Strategies Using Nursery Rhymes
As a class, scholars read the poems, Humpty Dumpty, Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater, and Jack and Jill, in order to identify words with the same ending sound. Using their rhyming skills, learners brainstorm additional words from word...
Curated OER
Humpty Dumpty
Students complete a variety of activities related to the nursery rhyme "Humpty Dumpty." They break a real egg and try to put it back together, and complete a class word web. Students also complete egg measurement activities and create...
Curated OER
Humpty Dumpty Poetry
In this Humpty Dumpty worksheet, students complete a poem, word search, and maze revolving around the poem Humpty Dumpty. Students complete 3 activities.
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Hip Hop Humpty Dumpty
Sing along to with this Hip Hop Humpty Dumpty song. This Nursery rhyme just got an update with a Hip Hop twist, animation, and bright colors. Updated rhymes like this one could insight early literacy and interest in reading. Tip: Have...
Curated OER
We're Flipping for Nursery Rhymes
Students read a variety of nursery rhymes with a focus on "Humpty Dumpty". While reading, they identify the words that rhyme along with the setting, plot and characters. To end the lesson, they complete a Venn Diagram comparing "Humpty...
Curated OER
Nursery Rhymes Poster Set
Where did Little Bo Peep's sheep go? How could Humpty Dumpty be put back together? After reading nursery rhymes from the provided, colorful posters, kids list the rhyming words and answer questions about the tale.
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Humpty Dumpty
In this Humpty Dumpty worksheet, students read the nursery rhyme and use word cards to identify the rhyming words. Black-and-white and color cut-outs are provided to tell the nursery rhyme.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Letter Recognition: Poetry Pen
It's always nice to have a great idea and all the tools to make it happen. The class can use these nursery rhyme and alphabet cards to teach each other letter recognition and letter sound correspondence. There is a full set of alphabet...
Curated OER
Humpty Dumpty Sequencing
Students complete activities for the nursery rhyme 'Humpty Dumpty.' In this nursery rhyme lesson, students recite the rhyme and act it out. Students discuss the rhyme and make up their own. Students bring and discuss hard boiled eggs,...
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English--"Humpty Dumpty"--Identifying Rhyming Words
In this rhyming words worksheet, students read Humpty Dumpty and begin recognizing rhyming words. Students unmix a mixed up batch of words by putting the words in 3 word family columns and list each one underneath one of the families....
Curated OER
Exploring Nursery Rhymes on the Internet
Learners recite nursery rhymes. In this literature lesson, students review the nursery rhymes "Humpty Dumpty" and "Jack and Jill." Learners then use the Internet to find more nursery rhymes.
Curated OER
Same and Different Through Music and Art
This instructional activity is intended for a music class but would be a great way to teach compare and contrast to any class. Kindergarteners dance the Hokey Pokey to four different styles of music and examine two paintings of Humpty...
Curated OER
Literacy Centers Using Nursery Rhymes
And in this corner we have Little Jack Horner. Engage your learners with phonemic awareness activities that encourage them to play with language. Eight different categories of phonemic awareness activities are detailed in the resource...
Curated OER
The New and Improved Humpty Dumpty
Students help Humpty Dumpty. In this nursery rhyme lesson, students listen to the nursery rhyme and then use their problem solving skills to rebuild broken eggs. Students create new Humpty Dumptys from unbreakable materials.
Curated OER
Humpty Dumpty: The Whole Story
Fifth graders analyze a nursery rhyme to explore the writing process. In this writing process lesson, 5th graders recite Humpty Dumpty and chart the plot of the story. Students select their own nursery rhyme and write a creative story...
Curated OER
Rhyme Time
A reading readiness PowerPoint engages students in practicing their rhyming skills. The PowerPoint begins with a review of what a rhyming word is, followed by in context examples (Nursery Rhymes), and concludes with an interactive...
Curated OER
Humpty Dumpty
In this Humpty Dumpty learning exercise, students read the nursery rhyme and complete activities to demonstrate knowledge of the rhyme. Students fill-in the blank and complete a word search using words from the rhyme.
Curated OER
Humpty Dumpty
For this language arts activity, students read a classic Mother Goose nursery rhyme Humpty Dumpty. Students color the picture.
Curated OER
Little Miss Muffet and Humpty Dumpty
For this early childhood song lyrics and images worksheet, students practice reading and singing the words of Little Miss Muffet and Humpty Dumpty.
Curated OER
Humpty Dumpty
Students discover the classic nursery rhyme Humpty Dumpty by experimenting with an egg. In this problem solving lesson, students break an actual egg similar to the story of Humpty Dumpty. Students identify the problems with putting a...