Starter quiz
- Why are nursery rhymes often easy to remember?
- They are long stories.
- Many of the same words are repeated. ✓
- They are sung in a tune like a song. ✓
- They are very old.
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- Match these rhyming words.
- dock⇔clock ✓
- peep⇔sheep ✓
- day⇔say ✓
- might⇔white ✓
- Tick the words that rhyme with each other.
- sing ✓
- swim
- kite
- king ✓
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- Which of these is a nursery rhyme?
- Goldilocks and the Three Bears
- Hickory Dickory Dock ✓
- The Gruffalo
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- Match the features with the type of text.
- magic⇔fairy tales ✓
- rhyme⇔nursery rhymes ✓
- teach a lesson⇔traditional tales ✓
- Which of these make a performance more exciting to watch?
- quiet voices
- actions and movements ✓
- loud, clear voice ✓
- standing with your hands next to your side
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Exit quiz
- Tick the words from ‘Five Little Ducks’ that rhyme with each other.
- Five
- ducks
- day ✓
- away ✓
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- Rhyming words have the same __________ at the end of a word.
- punctuation
- letters
- sound ✓
- meaning
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- What are the ducks doing in 'Five Little Ducks'?
- splashing
- sleeping
- eating
- swimming ✓
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- The nursery rhyme 'Five Little Ducks' helps us practise...
- sharing
- counting ✓
- writing
- running
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- 'Five Little Ducks' and 'Hickory Dickory Dock' are the same because...
- they are both about animals. ✓
- they both count backwards.
- both the events take place outside.
- they both have rhyming words. ✓
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- How can we make a performance more exciting?
- shouting
- jumping up and down
- closing our eyes
- using facial expressions ✓
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Lesson Details
Key learning points
- 'Five Little Ducks Went Swimming One Day' has some rhyming words, such as 'day' and 'away'.
- Knowing the tune, words, rhythm and actions of a nursery rhyme makes it more entertaining for an audience.
- 'Hickory Dickory Dock' and 'Five Little Ducks Went Swimming One Day' are similar because they both include counting.
- Personal responses are a way of sharing your own thoughts, feelings, and opinions about a poem.
Common misconception
Pupils may struggle to identify similarities and differences.
Repeating the two nursery rhymes again is useful to support. Additionally, you can scaffold the discussion by asking questions and modelling your thought process, such as "Do both nursery rhymes have animals?" or "Are both nursery rhymes set inside?"
Keywords
Rhyme - words that have the same or similar ending sounds often used in poetry
Verse - refers to a single line or a group of lines within a poem, often characterized by rhythm, meter, and rhyme, forming a unit of poetic language
Same - something that is identical or similar
Difference - something that is not the same
Sequence - following the order in which a series of events happened
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