Session Objectives: Understand the importance of Nursery Rhymes. Learn various ways Nursery Rhymes can be incorporated into the curriculum. List ways.

Session Objectives:• Understand the importance of Nursery Rhymes.• Learn various ways Nursery Rhymes can be

incorporated into the curriculum.• List ways Nursery Rhymes can be used to meet

state objectives.

Nursery Rhymes:

Reading nursery rhymes daily helps the student’s brain segment words into syllables and hear similarities between words that rhyme or start

with the same sound.TEA Pre-K Guidelines:B.6.Child can produce a word that rhymes with a given word.

Nursery Rhymes Can:• Enrich young children’s vocabulary.• Provide opportunities for oral language

development.• Introduce children to basic story structure such as

problem and solution, cause and effect.• Be easily integrated into already existing themes.• Be FUN and engaging for young children.

Teach each nursery rhyme for a one or two week duration instead of “chunking” all

nursery rhymes into one, brief unit.

Teaching each Nursery Rhyme explicitly will ensure that your students receive plenty of rhyming practice throughout the entire

year.

Nursery Rhymes can be easily integrated into your already existing themes

(see handout)

Classroom Library

Independent Practice

Create your own

Big Book

TEA Pre-K Guidelines III.B.6.The child gives the pairs of words from a nursery rhyme that rhyme.

Nursery Rhyme/Poetry Notebooks

Nursery Rhyme

Pocket Charts

TEA Pre-K Guidelines III.B.6.The child gives the pairs of words from a nursery rhyme that rhyme.

Nursery Rhyme Flannel Boards

Nursery Rhyme Puppets

Nursery Rhyme Music

Jack Hartmann’s Rhymin to the Beat Vol. 1 & 2

Dr. Jean’s Nursery Rhymes and Good Ole Times

Frog Street Press Nursery Rhymes

Nursery Rhyme Puzzles

Take-Home Activities

Acting Out Nursery RhymesProviding props for students to act out nursery rhymes will

help extend opportunities for developing early literacy skills.

See handout for details.

TEA Pre-K GuidelinesIII.D.1.Child retells or reenactsa story after it is readaloud.

Technology

Performances

Review of Session Objectives:• Understand the importance of Nursery Rhymes.• Learn various ways Nursery Rhymes can be

incorporated into the curriculum.• List ways Nursery Rhymes can be used to meet

state objectives.

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byVanessa LevinPre-K Pages

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