Makin' Time

1. Makin' Time for Nursery Rhymes by: Vanessa Levin www.pre-kpages.com

2. Nursery Rhymes 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 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 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. The Power of Nursery Rhymes Teach each nursery rhyme for a one or two week duration instead of “chunking” all nursery rhymes into one, brief unit.

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

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

8. Integrating Nursery Rhymes Classroom Library

9. Integrating Nursery Rhymes Independent Practice

10. Integrating Nursery Rhymes 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. Integrating Nursery Rhymes Nursery Rhyme/Poetry Notebooks

12. Integrating Nursery Rhymes 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. Integrating Nursery Rhymes Nursery Rhyme Flannel Boards

14. Integrating Nursery Rhymes Nursery Rhyme Puppets

15. Integrating Nursery Rhymes 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. Integrating Nursery Rhymes Nursery Rhyme Puzzles

17. Integrating Nursery Rhymes Take-Home Activities

18. Integrating Nursery Rhymes 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. Integrating Nursery Rhymes Technology

20. Integrating Nursery Rhymes Performances

21. Nursery Rhymes 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. Nursery Rhymes The End by Vanessa Levin Pre-K Pages vlevin@pre-kpages.com