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Play with Words: Rhymes & Verse
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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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...
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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.
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Draw a Rhyme
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.
National Council of Teachers of English
Writing Poetry with Rebus and Rhyme
Young scholars write rhyming poems using rebus. With pictures instead of words, authors create original work about things they love.
Soft Schools
Practice Reading Poetry
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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Limericks
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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Roald Dahl Day Challenge
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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Introduce Vocabulary: How Do Dinosaurs Go To School? (Yolen)
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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Introduce Vocabulary: Rap a Tap Tap (Dillon)
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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Grade 2 Language Arts: Reading 4
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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Grade 2 Language Arts: Reading 2
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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Grade 2 Language Arts: Reading 1
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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Jack Be Nimble
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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This Little Piggy Puppets
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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The Story of the Three Little Pigs
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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Finish the Ladybug Rhyme
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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Rub-A-Dub Dub
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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"Wee Willie Winkie"
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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"I'll Tell You A Story"
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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"Thirty Days Hath September"
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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"Heigh, Diddle, Diddle"
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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"Bedtime"
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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Language Arts: Reading 3
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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