Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: Nonsense Poetry and Whimsy

Walking in nature is the theme of a unit designed to support English language development lessons. Scholars look, write, speak, and move to explore topics such as camping, woodland animals, instruments, bodies of water, things found at a...

What do all those chairs and pencils do in the classroom once everyone leaves? Allow imaginations to run wild with frighteningly short poems!

Who would ever think to go to sea in a sieve? Only Edward Lear's Jumblies! The poem "The Jumblies" is the inspiration for these poetry reading and writing activities that ask learners to think about how strangers are different, consider...

In this poetry lesson, young readers discuss that poems can sometimes have silly words and made up people, places, and things. Students read and listen to silly poems then write a response poem to their favorite.

Silly sounds, games, and stories abound in an app about a couple of pranksters an unlikely hero. Kids can read, play, and create their own alter-egos, complete with silly names.

Here is an Alice in Wonderland word search puzzle where learners locate and circle 20 key terms and characters from the novel. Offer this to pupils who finish their work early, or who like to work puzzles at home. 

Here is a clip from the Sesame Street version of Alice in Wonderland. Abby is too big to get to the door she has to think up a word that rhymes with drink. She gets bigger and smaller until she's able to get through the door.

Primary learners explore elements of wonder in The Nursery "Alice" by Lewis Carroll. They analyze the plot point after listening to the text. Next, they describe the imagery in various works of children's literature using the given links...

For this rhyming verse worksheet, students read 20 words in a chart and color them according to the directions, using a different color for each ending rhyme pattern. Students then answer 10 questions in which they write simple nonsense...

Abby Caddaby plays the part of Alice in a Sesame Street version of Alice in Wonderland. This is a short clip showing only one minute of the entire adaptation.