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.

What makes a complete sentence? Words, of course! As your budding readers understand this relationship, guide them through this nursery rhyme activity. Scholars examine pictures of 10 familiar rhymes, mentally counting the words in the...

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.  

It's always nice to have a great idea and all the tools to make it happen. The class can use these nursery rhyme and alphabet cards to teach each other letter recognition and letter sound correspondence. There is a full set of alphabet...

And in this corner we have Little Jack Horner. Engage your learners with phonemic awareness activities that encourage them to play with language. Eight different categories of phonemic awareness activities are detailed in the resource...

For this "Incy Wincy Spider" worksheet, students follow the story of the nursery rhyme as they cut out and play with the 4 puppet props.

A reader's theater script for Anna McKeay's reproducible version of Humpty Dumpty, is provided on these pages. Sixteen character roles are needed in this nursery rhyme-based performance.

A reader's theater script for Janet Stevens and Susan Crummel's nursery rhyme version, And the Dish Ran Away With The Spoon, is provided on these pages. Twenty character roles are needed in this activity.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This short literary text passage is the nursery rhyme about three blind mice. This passage is intended for guided practice and is designed to reinforce essential reading comprehension skills.

A lesson plan requiring students to work in groups to create a modern version of a popular nursery rhyme and then compare and contrast the original version with the one they have created.

This site offers the text and audio of the poem "The Owl and the Pussycat" by Edward Lear. Great for students to practice reading poetry aloud at an appropriate rate and with expression.

This is not your typical a, b, c nursery rhyme song. This site presents a short and fun outline of many different chants, songs and exercises.

The interactive resource displays the day of the week a student was born on. A nursery rhyme about the different days is also included.

You can read and hear animated stories from the Brothers Grimm on this site. There are also links to games, fun stuff, and a featured story.

Music, songs and dance have always been instrumental in teaching students. This site offers fun and entertaining activities along with teaching tips that enhance the students' awareness of sound, numbers, body parts and more. Intended...