Nursery rhymes help young children to develop vocabulary and communication skills and encourage them to become interested in rhythms, rhymes and patterns in language.
This resource pack provides a selection of traditional nursery rhymes to recite with the children, with teaching opportunities linked to each nursery rhyme, covering areas of the Year 1 English curriculum and develop pupils’ oracy.
Nursery Rhymes included:
- Two Little Dickie Birds
- The Wheels on the Bus
- Solomon Grundy
- Star Light, Star Bright
Included in this Key Stage 1 nursery rhyme resource pack
- Nursery rhyme examples, available as a PDF and on a PowerPoint
- PDF outlines of characters or objects from the poems to create stick puppets
- Two Little Dickie Birds writing template
- The Wheels on the Bus writing template
- Solomon Grundy writing template
- Star Light, Star Bright writing template
- Teacher notes with guidance on how the resources could be used in the classroom
National Curriculum English, programme of study links
Reading
Pupils should be taught to develop pleasure in reading, motivation to read, vocabulary and understanding by:
- recognising and joining in with predictable phrases
- learning to appreciate rhymes and poems, and to recite some by heart
Writing
Pupils should be taught to:
- spell the days of the week
-use capital letters for names of people ...
- compose sentences orally before writing
- begin to punctuate sentences using a capital letter and a full stop ...