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Play with Words: Rhymes & Verse

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners listen to poems and rhymes, clap out syllables, and sing along with familiar tunes. They use puppets and crafts to help recall and retell favorite poems, and craft their own poems.
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ReadWriteThink

Word Recognition Strategies Using Nursery Rhymes

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
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...
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Curated OER

Exploring Nursery Rhymes on the Internet

For Teachers K - 3rd
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.
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Curated OER

Draw a Rhyme

For Students 1st - 2nd Standards
In this draw a rhyme worksheet, learners read 2 sentences, underline the words that rhyme in each sentence, and draw pictures to accompany each sentence.
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National Council of Teachers of English

Writing Poetry with Rebus and Rhyme

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
Young scholars write rhyming poems using rebus. With pictures instead of words, authors create original work about things they love. 
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Soft Schools

Practice Reading Poetry

For Students 2nd - 4th Standards
Identify the rhyme scheme in a learning exercise that features "Mary Had a Little Lamb." Readers use the nursery rhyme to reinforce poetic elements in four comprehension questions.
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Curated OER

Limericks

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Introduce your class to the limerick with a focus on the form and its history. Resource is short on procedure, but contains useful suggestions about where to look for school-appropriate limericks for young readers. Examine the...
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Puffin

Roald Dahl Day Challenge

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Have some fun with Roald Dahl-related activities in order to celebrate him as a person and a writer. The page includes 10 tasks that learners can complete to honor Dahl, including everything from wearing something yellow to swapping a...
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Curated OER

Introduce Vocabulary: How Do Dinosaurs Go To School? (Yolen)

For Teachers K - 3rd
Dinosaurs don't go to school...but what if they did? Use Jane Yolen's book How Do Dinosaurs Go To School to explore vocabulary in context. Find this on YouTube if you don't have the text on hand. These in-text words give some ideas of...
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Curated OER

Introduce Vocabulary: Rap a Tap Tap (Dillon)

For Teachers K - 3rd
Explore the dancing prodigy and Depression-era African-American icon Bill Robinson as scholars learn new vocabulary words in context. As you read Leo Dillon's Rap a Tap Tap they listen for six new words: clatter, greet, passion, pause,...
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Curated OER

Grade 2 Language Arts: Reading 4

For Students 2nd
In this sequential order worksheet, 2nd graders read a short passages from 2 nursery rhymes and then put 3 statements from each one in sequential order.
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Curated OER

Grade 2 Language Arts: Reading 2

For Students 2nd
In this order of events worksheet, 2nd graders read a short passage from 2 nursery rhymes and then put 3 statements from each one in sequential order.
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Curated OER

Grade 2 Language Arts: Reading 1

For Students 2nd
In this order of events worksheet, 2nd graders read a short passage from 2 nursery rhymes and then put 3 events from each one in sequential order.
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Curated OER

Jack Be Nimble

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this rhyming words worksheet, students fill in the last words in the nursery rhyme Jack Be Nimble. Students think of as many words as they can that rhyme with "quick" and "Jack".
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Curated OER

This Little Piggy Puppets

For Students 1st - 2nd
In these puppet activity worksheets, students cut out the pictures to use as puppets for the nursery rhyme of 'This Little Piggy.'
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Organizer
Curated OER

The Story of the Three Little Pigs

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this nursery rhymes worksheet, students use their reading comprehension and fluency skills to read this version of The Three Little Pigs.
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Curated OER

Finish the Ladybug Rhyme

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this poetry practice instructional activity, students study the 5 lines of a poem about a ladybug and then add their own details to write the remaining lines of the poem.
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Curated OER

Rub-A-Dub Dub

For Students Pre-K - 2nd
In this "Rub-A-Dub Dub" Mother Goose nursery rhyme coloring page worksheet, learners review and discuss the rhyme and color the picture with vibrant colors.
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Curated OER

"Wee Willie Winkie"

For Students Pre-K - 2nd
In this "Wee Willie Winkie" Mother Goose nursery rhyme coloring page worksheet, students review and discuss the rhyme and color the picture with vibrant colors.
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Curated OER

"I'll Tell You A Story"

For Students K - 2nd
In this "I'll Tell You A Story" Mother Goose nursery rhyme coloring page worksheet, students discuss the rhyme and color the picture with vibrant colors.
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Curated OER

"Thirty Days Hath September"

For Students Pre-K - 2nd
In this "Thirty Days Hath September" Mother Goose nursery rhyme coloring page learning exercise, students review and discuss the rhyme and color the picture with vibrant colors.
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Curated OER

"Heigh, Diddle, Diddle"

For Students K - 2nd
For this "Heigh, Diddle, Diddle" Mother Goose nursery rhyme coloring page worksheet, students review and discuss the rhyme and color the page with vibrant colors.
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Curated OER

"Bedtime"

For Teachers K - 2nd
In this "Bedtime" Mother Goose nursery rhyme coloring page worksheet, students review and discuss the rhyme and color the picture with vibrant colors.
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Curated OER

Language Arts: Reading 3

For Students 2nd
In this nursery rhymes worksheet, 2nd graders read 2 short nursery rhymes and then put the events from each one in sequential order as they happened.

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