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Nursery Rhymes
Reading experts say
that a child's ability to recite nursery rhymes is a good indicator
of whether or not he or she will be a successful reader. We work a
lot with nursery rhymes and other poems in class. I have created
these "nursery rhyme kits" for you to use if you would like to give
your child some extra practice with nursery rhymes. Each kit
contains activities that:
1. Foster early literacy skills such as one-to-one
correspondence (pointing to each word as it is read), reading text
from left to right, learning the difference between letters and
words, and understanding that words in a sentence have to go in a
certain order to make sense.
2. Aid in letter recognition.
3. Help identify rhyming words.
4. Help with sight word
recognition.
5. Show whether your child comprehends the storyline
of the rhyme. (Can he or she tell you what happens in the rhyme
and/or draw a picture of it?)
I have included a graph in each kit to
record the number of words in each line of the rhymes. This practices
important math skills (graphing, more/less, counting) and also reinforces the
concept of words. There is a "little book" version of the rhyme for your child
to illustrate and put together as well.
You will need Adobe Acrobat
Reader to download these PDF files.
Most likely, you already have it installed on your computer. If not, it is
FREE. You can download
it by clicking on the button below.
How to Use Each Part of the Kit:
Page 1:
Description of each section
Page 2: Tips for
reading rhymes with your child
Page 3:
Student page (has rhyme for reading and a place to draw a
picture about the rhyme)
Page 4:
Parent/Child activity page (has rhyme with "find it" questions
at the bottom -- "Can you circle each "p" that you find?" etc.
Page 5: Cut-up sentence version (Cut out the
word boxes, mix up the words, and try to put the rhyme back in
order. Use the Student Page with rhyme as a helper.)
Page 6: Graph the number of words in each line of the
rhyme.
Student Book: Have your child
draw a picture to accompany the text on each page of the book.
When all of the pictures are done, help him or her cut out the
individual page boxes. Staple or tape together to make a
little-book version!
Click
to download the nursery rhyme kit of your choice:
Hey Diddle, Diddle
Hickory, Dickory, Dock
Humpty Dumpty
Itsy Bitsy Spider
Jack and Jill
Little Miss Muffett
Nursery Rhyme Links
Literactive --
This site has wonderful nursery rhyme activities. It will read the
rhymes to your children (with colorful animations to accompany the
rhymes), and following each rhyme are multiple games. You must
register (free) to use this site. The Nursery Rhyme activities are
under the "Road to Reading" heading.
Enchanted Learning's Nursery Rhymes: This site has nursery
rhymes in rebus form (words + pictures), and many of the rhymes also
have links to sequencing cards, coloring sheets, and finger puppets.
Everyone can access these activities, but if you have a membership,
the pages are more printer-friendly.
At least take a look at the rebus rhymes!
Nursery Rhymes from TeachersAndFamilies:
Excellent, color, printable nursery rhyme pages for making little books. I went
back to this site recently, and it also had a voice that would read the rhymes
to you!
Nursery Rhyme Online Activities:
This site reads the nursery rhyme "Humpty Dumpty" to the child and then has
activities to go with it. Teachers, this would be a good activity to use on
ActivBoards and possibly the SmartBoard.
What are "curds and whey"?
-- This link will tell you all about them.
Nursery Rhyme Coloring Pages:
The Hendersonville Police Department has links to many nursery rhyme coloring
sheets.
TEACHERS:
You may save and print these kits to use in your classroom. Please do not
post them on your website, but you may link to this page. Thank you for
respecting the time it took to make these kits.
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