[...]... Spread the lesson and activities for each rhyme over several days 7 Humpty Dumpty Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall Humpty Dumpty had a great fall All the King’s horses could not put Humpty together again Nursery Rhyme Readers Teaching Guide • © 2010 Scholastic • 10 and all the King’s men Humpty Dumpty Learning With the Nursery Rhyme Nursery Rhyme Readers Teaching Guide © Scholastic Teaching Resources See pages... children to see.) Some of the lesson pages have specific suggestions for using the reproducible versions of the nursery rhymes Nursery Rhymes Readers Teaching Guide • © 2010 Scholastic • 26 Nursery Rhyme Readers Teaching Guide © Scholastic Teaching Resources Using the Reproducible Nursery Rhyme Pages Jack Name _ Mary Had a Little Lamb Write Your Own Story! Using the Lesson... _ Nursery Rhymes Readers Teaching Guide • © 2010 Scholastic • 42 For each Nursery Rhyme Reader, use the activities on the lesson page found in this teaching guide to delve further into the areas of phonemic awareness, phonics, comprehension, vocabulary, reading, and writing Each nursery rhyme includes a reproducible activity page specific to it Spread the lesson and activities for each rhyme over... Lamb Have children make a folder of the nursery Mary had a little lamb rhyme pages Provide a blank folder for children to with fleece as white as snow title “My Nursery Rhymes,” and let them decorate And everywhere that Mary went, the lamb was sure to go it Have them insert the nursery rhymes as they read He followed her to school them They can also keep the Nursery Rhyme one day, Reader Log in the folder,... for Humpty Dumpty Say aloud the word Humpty in parts: /h/…umpty Have children blend the word Have children blend the word Dumpty the same way Tell children that the words rhyme because they sound the same at the end They both end with umpty Show children how you can make another word that rhymes by changing the first sound—for example, you can change /d/ to /b/ and make Bumpty Invite children to say Humpty. .. Bumpty Then ask them to change Humpty Dumpty s name again by changing the first sound in Bumpty, for example, Humpty Mumpty Children can also make up new names that rhyme, such as Higgy Piggy, Lucky Bucky, or Hacky Packy Make a list of these silly rhyming names and have children recite the nursery rhyme with the new names Short /a/ Wordplay Say aloud the following words from the rhyme: sat, put, had Ask...L Ask children if they liked the rhyme, and what they liked most or least Have them retell the rhyme in their own words  After reading a nursery rhyme several times, give children a copy of the nursery rhyme reproducible to use for independent reading, for reading in pairs or groups, for classroom activities, and for... all What happened at the beginning? (Humpty Dumpty was sitting on a wall.) What happened next? (Humpty fell off the wall and broke.) What happened at the end? (The king’s horses and men tried to fix him but they couldn’t.) Now focus on the ending Say: “Poor Humpty! He’s still broken!” Ask children to help Humpty by creating new endings to the story that would solve Humpty s problem Punctuation Pointer... problem Punctuation Pointer Explain the use of the apostrophe in the word King’s Have children replace horses and men in the text with other things that could belong to the king 11 Humpty Dumpty, All in the Family Nursery Rhymes Readers Teaching Guide • © 2010 Scholastic • 34 ... reread the rhyme slowly, asking children to find another word with the short /a/ sound (and) Play a game in which you slowly recite a list of one-syllable words and children cheer “Yay!” when they hear the short /a/ sound All in the Family Write the word family –all on the chalkboard or on chart paper Say: “The letters a-l-l make the /all/ sound.” Distribute the reproducible version of the nursery rhyme . R h y m e READERSREADERS Nursery Rhyme Readers: Humpty, Dumpty © Scholastic Teaching Resouces 2 Humpty Dumpty Nursery Rhyme Readers: Humpty, Dumpty © Scholastic Teaching Resouces 3 sat on a wall. Nursery. wall. Nursery Rhyme Readers: Humpty, Dumpty © Scholastic Teaching Resouces 4 Humpty Dumpty Nursery Rhyme Readers: Humpty, Dumpty © Scholastic Teaching Resouces 5 had a great fall. Nursery Rhyme Readers: Humpty, . goal. Jack Nursery Rhyme Readers Teaching Guide © Scholastic Teaching Resources Nursery Rhyme Readers Teaching Guide • © 2010 Scholastic • 10 Humpty Dumpty Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall. Humpty Dumpty had