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Poetry4kids

How to Write a Fractured Nursery Rhyme

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
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.  
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Poetry4kids

How to Write a Traditional “Mother Goose” Nursery Rhyme

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
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.
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonological Awareness: Sentence Segmentation, Nursery Rhymes

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
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...
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Other

C.a.s.t.l.e. Technology: Student Page: Compare and Contrast

For Students 2nd - 4th Standards
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.