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Hickory Dickory Dock
After singing the classic "Hickory Dickory Dock" rhyme, your students can practice telling time with this themed PowerPoint. Each slide has a clock showing a particular time. Tip: Ask students what time the clock is showing, prior to...
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Hickory Dickory Dock
Students use the Hickory Dickory Dock nursery rhyme to learn about rhyme, telling time, and preposition use. In this nursery rhyme instructional activity, students read the nursery rhyme daily and complete a Mother Goose quiz. Students...
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Hickory Dickory Dock
Studentsa introduced to a new rhyme, "Hickory Dickory Dock," they view a poster. They fockus on the picture on the top of the page, students are asked how many of them have seen a grandfather clock before? Students are told that...
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Kodaly Beat Lesson
Introduce rhythmic beat and melodic beat with a upbeat activity that asks young musicians to clap the beat to their favorite nursery rhyme. To introduce the rest beat, class members use small drums or other percussion instruments to play...
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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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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.
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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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Hickory, Dickory, Dock
In this rhyme worksheet, students read a nursery rhyme about a clock. Students also color in an illustration and cut out rhyming words from the story.
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More Nursery Rhymes
Jack and Jill went up the... bell? As your budding readers and writers begin to recognize simple words and rhyme, use these incomplete sentences as practice. There are three lines from familiar nursery rhymes here, each missing the last...
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Hickory Dickory Dock
Students pick out the sounds and -ck written in words. They are taught how to correctly say the sound with their mouth and read Hickory Dickory Dock. Words with the ck sound are underlined for the student's to notice. As an...
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Mouse Mess
Scholars practice rhyming and phonemic awareness using trade books and poetry. They will listen to the book Mouse Mess several times throughout the week, identifying rhyming words, and matching words that begin with the same sound. Then...
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Children's Rhymes
In this English Language children's rhymes learning exercise, student enhance their vocabulary and speaking skills by practicing the rhymes 'Hickory, Dickory Dock' and 'Baa, Baa Black Sheep.'
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Hickory Dickory Dock
Students follow written directions to construct their own tangram. In this tangram lesson plan, students use their tangram to develop original figures that illustrate characters and/or objects from their favorite nursery rhyme. Students...
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Hickory Dickory Dock Webquest
Students listen to and read nursery rhymes. They discuss rhyming words. Students play a variety of computer games with rhymes, numbers and telling time. They retell the story through dramatic play, speech, and comprehension questions.
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Story Sequence
For this story sequence worksheet, students read five line nursery rhymes and then number the events in sequential order. There are four nursery rhymes on this two-page worksheet. An answer key is included.
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Nursery Rhyme Rewrites
Students rewrite a classical nursery rhyme. They develop a sense of self in relation to their families and community. They also perform the original nursery rhyme in a play setting.
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Exploring Nursery Rhymes on the Internet
Students recite nursery rhymes. In this literature lesson, students review the nursery rhymes "Humpty Dumpty" and "Jack and Jill." Students then use the Internet to find more nursery rhymes.
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Final Phoneme CK
Students discuss types of rhyme and identify the words in a poem that end in ck. They write their own stories about a mouse and his amazing adventure.
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Kinder Poems & Songs
Students complete a year-long unit for poetry and songs. In this poetry and songs lesson, students complete nine lessons for animal songs and animal poetry to improve their understanding of rhyme, rhythm, and poetry.
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Mother Goose on the Loose: Teaching Reading and Writing in a Way That's Exciting
Students become familiar with the conventions of print as they recognize Mother Goose poems. In this Mother Goose lesson, students follow the words from left to right as they read Mother Goose poems. Students recognize rhyming words and...
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Frequency Words
First graders use a graph to answer questions about the frequency of words. Using rhymes, they fill in a chart about the data they collected. In groups, they use their word wall words to identify them in a book.
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Mice are Nice 80
Students complete a variety of mouse-themed activities. They listen to stories, recite poetry, identify rhyming words, write sentences, create art projects, take a survey and design an original mousetrap.
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Telling Time
Students identify numerals on a clock and put them in correct order. They identify the hour and minute hands on a clock. Students practice time skills by telling time by the hour using a standard clock.
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Looking at French Decorative Arts: The Quest for True Porcelain
Students study the effects of production and consumption of goods on French society during the porcelain period. In this history activity students research the trade history of porcelain from Asia.