Starter quiz
- What makes nursery rhymes easy to learn?
- They have words that are repeated. ✓
- They have lots of long words in them.
- They are sung in a tune like a song. ✓
- They are very old.
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- Match the rhyming words.
- tick⇔pick ✓
- song⇔long ✓
- cake⇔lake ✓
- girl⇔curl ✓
- Select the words that rhyme with each other.
- sunny
- sky ✓
- high ✓
- house
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- Which of these is a nursery rhyme?
- Little Bo Peep ✓
- Cinderella
- The Billy Goats Gruff
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- Identify the features of a nursery rhyme.
- They are long stories about magical creatures.
- They are sung in a tune like a song. ✓
- They often have rhyming words. ✓
- They are always about real people.
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- Complete the following sentence: 'When we perform a nursery rhyme, our voice should be __________ and __________.'
- quiet
- loud ✓
- angry
- clear ✓
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Exit quiz
- Select the words from ‘Hickory Dickory Dock’ that rhyme with each other.
- Dock ✓
- mouse
- ran
- clock ✓
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- Rhyming words always …
- have the same letters at the end.
- have the same sound at the end. ✓
- start with a capital letter.
- finish with the letter ‘s’.
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- Which animal runs up the clock in ‘Hickory Dickory Dock’?
- an ant
- a mouse ✓
- a fox
- a sheep
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- Nursery rhymes are a type of ...
- word.
- letter.
- story.
- poem. ✓
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- We can use __________ to make a performance more interesting to watch.
- shouting
- animals
- actions ✓
- videos
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- ‘Hickory Dickory Dock’ and ‘Little Bo Peep’ are similar because …
- they are both about animals. ✓
- they are both about a grandfather clock.
- both the events take place outside.
- they both have rhyming words. ✓
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Lesson Details
Key learning points
- Nursery rhymes are a good way to introduce us to rhythms of language, new vocabulary and sentence structures.
- 'Hickory Dickory Dock' has some rhyming words, such as 'clock', 'tick-tock' and 'Dock'.
- Knowing the tune, words, rhythm and actions of a Nursery Rhyme make it entertaining for whoever is watching.
- 'Hickory Dickory Dock' and 'Little Bo Peep' are similar because they both include animals.
- Personal responses are a way of sharing your own thoughts, feelings, and opinions about a poem.
Common misconception
Pupils may struggle to think of actions for certain lines of the rhyme.
Demonstrate lots of examples of actions or movements you could do and ask other pupils to perform their ideas to the group.
Keywords
Rhyme - words that have the same or similar ending sounds often used in poetry
Poem - a piece of writing that uses creative and rhythmic language to express thoughts, feelings, or ideas, often with a specific structure or pattern.
Compare - to note what is the same and what is different
Same - something that is identical or similar
Difference - not the same as something
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