الاثنين، 11 يوليو 2011

Teaching Kids Nursery Rhymes


Rhyming Words, Word Families and Vocabulary
I love the mixture of word families with rhyming words. Nursery rhymes are full of rhyming words to use. Often they have unfamiliar vocabulary words in them which can be used to teach children new vocabulary words. This is the start of a series using nursery rhymes in the classroom. Use one nursery rhyme a week to teach the concepts of rhyming, word families and new vocabulary. We will explore a series of nursery rhymes and teaching activities for each nursery rhyme.

Here is a lesson plan for Humpty Dumpty

Objectives
By the end of this lesson, students will be to:
Read the rhyme correctly and appropriately.
  Identify new vocabulary.
  Guess the meanings of the new vocabulary.
  Label the rhyming words in the rhyme.
Provide rhyming words suiting those previously identified.

Procedure
    The teacher reads the nursery rhyme" Humpty Dumpty", and has the students repeat each line after her.
    The teacher gives the chance for the students to recite the rhyme individually.   
    The teacher demonstrates some of Humpty Dumpty's pictures.
    The teacher asks the students about the Humpty's appearance. 
     The teacher discusses with students the historical story of  Humpty Dumpty.
    The teacher asks the students, "Where is Humpty Dumpty, and is it a safe place for him to be?"
    Discuss new vocabulary. Tell students that Humpty Dumpty is slang for a little, clumsy person, which would make sense in this context.
    The teacher with the students highlight rhyming words  after rereading the rhyme such as; (wall and fall), (men and again)
    The teacher asks the students to bring their own rhyming words.
    The  teacher asks the student to draw a sketch resemble the story of the rhyme at the end of the class, and stick it on the activity stand


Assessment

    The teacher asks the students to suggest ways the king’s men could have put Humpty Dumpty together again.
    The teacher asks the students to Draw a comic strip illustrating the sequence of events in the nursery rhyme Humpty Dumpty.
    The teacher gives students a word from the word family(-all) and ask them to generate as many words as possible.
    The teachers ask the students if there is moral behind this rhyme .
    The teacher ask the students about their impression toward thin rhyme.
    The teacher ask the students to put the rhyming words in meaningful sentences.


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