2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. Teach each nursery rhyme for a one or two week duration instead of “chunking” all nursery rhymes into one, brief unit.

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

7. Nursery Rhymes can be easily integrated into your already existing themes (see handout)

8. Classroom Library

9. Independent Practice

10. 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.

11. Nursery Rhyme/Poetry Notebooks

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

13. Nursery Rhyme Flannel Boards

14. Nursery Rhyme Puppets

15. 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

16. Nursery Rhyme Puzzles

17. Take-Home Activities

18. Acting Out Nursery Rhymes Providing props for students to act out nursery rhymes will help extend opportunities for developing early literacy skills. See handout for details. TEA Pre-K Guidelines III.D.1. Child retells or reenacts a story after it is read aloud.

19. Technology

20. Performances

21. 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.

22. The End by Vanessa Levin Pre-K Pages vlevin@pre-kpages.com