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Listen to the CD and read along with the book.

Copy one of the rhymes onto sentence strips. Cut apart the words and practise putting them back into the correct order. Say the rhyme as you put it together. 

Rewrite one of the poems on chart paper and choral read it in groups, pointing to the words as everyone reads. Vary the groups who reread: only students wearing red, only boys, only those with winter birthdays, etc.

Read the nursery rhymes along with the teacher or the audio model.

Act out a nursery rhyme with the class. 

Listen to the CD and sing along with the rhymes.

Find the feather on each page. Count the feathers and decide what you will do with them.

Sheep, Very Short Mother Goose Tales to Read Together, TheGreat Nursery Rhyme Disaster

Mots-clés

Nursery rhymes , Poetry , characters in nursery rhymes , illustrations (fabric) , poetry (collections) , rhymes

Commentaire descriptif

In this treasury of 46 traditional Mother Goose favourites, the emphasis is on nostalgia and memory. Hand-sewn illustrations make use of antique fabrics and felt, braid, buttons, beads and assorted bric-a-brac to evoke the cozy, quilted look of a bygone era. Rhyme titles are stitched in black thread. Such rich and elaborate detail appears on every page from cover to cover, including the embroidered dust jacket, the dedication page, table of contents and introduction. In “Sing a Song of Sixpence,” for instance, a lively double spread of appliquéd images is set against grey felt. Children will delight in the clever search-and-find game accompanying each rhyme—the tiny feather they must locate on every busy page. By the end of the book, they will have collected enough feathers for a down-filled pillow at bedtime. The book includes a sing-along CD and an index of first lines.