[...]... the lesson and activities for each rhyme over several days 7 Hey, Diddle, Diddle Hey, diddle, diddle, the cat and the fiddle, the cow jumped over the moon The little dog laughed and the dish ran away with the spoon Nursery Rhyme Readers Teaching Guide • © 2010 Scholastic • 22 to see such a sight, Hey, Diddle, Diddle Learning With the Nursery Rhyme See pages 6–7 for suggested ways to read and share the... might wish to enlarge one copy of the rhyme and place it on an easel for children to see.) Some of the lesson pages have specific suggestions for using the reproducible versions of the nursery rhymes Nursery Rhymes Readers Teaching Guide • © 2010 Scholastic • 26 Nursery Rhyme Readers Teaching Guide © Scholastic Teaching Resources Using the Reproducible Nursery Rhyme Pages Jack Name ... Lamb Have children make a folder of the nursery Mary had a little lamb rhyme pages Provide a blank folder for children to with fleece as white as snow title “My Nursery Rhymes,” and let them decorate And everywhere that Mary went, the lamb was sure to go it Have them insert the nursery rhymes as they read He followed her to school them They can also keep the Nursery Rhyme one day, Reader Log in the folder,... _ Nursery Rhymes Readers Teaching Guide • © 2010 Scholastic • 42 For each Nursery Rhyme Reader, use the activities on the lesson page found in this teaching guide to delve further into the areas of phonemic awareness, phonics, comprehension, vocabulary, reading, and writing Each nursery rhyme includes a reproducible activity page specific to it Spread the lesson and activities for each rhyme over...L Ask children if they liked the rhyme, and what they liked most or least Have them retell the rhyme in their own words After reading a nursery rhyme several times, give children a copy of the nursery rhyme reproducible to use for independent reading, for reading in pairs or groups, for classroom activities,... Dum Write the following sentences on chart paper and read them aloud Challenge children to finish the sentences with rhyming words Hey, diddle, dum, the cat and the _ crumb Hey, diddle, dee, the cat went up the _ tree Hey, diddle, dat, the cat wore a _ hat Hey, diddle, dilly, the cat looked so silly Next, invite children to write or dictate and illustrate their own rhyming sentences... children to share the funniest sights they have ever seen in their lives, or in a movie or TV show Then, invite children to draw a picture of the funniest sights they can imagine Help children label their illustrations with captions Make a bulletin board of “Silly Sights” or bind the drawings together to make a book 23 Hey, Diddle, Diddle Act It Out! Nursery Rhymes Readers Teaching Guide • © 2010 Scholastic... the following activities Nursery Rhyme Readers Teaching Guide © Scholastic Teaching Resources Rhyme It! Have children create rhyming words with words from the reader Tell them you will say a word and then a sound, and they are to replace the first sound in the word with the sound you name For example, say the word hey and /d/, and children say day Use these and other words: diddle /f/ (fiddle) fiddle... the reproducible version of the rhyme and ask children to find the words with double letters: diddle, fiddle, moon, spoon, little, see Have children underline the words and circle the double letters Start a bulletin board of other words with double letters and have children add to it as they see them in other nursery rhymes, around the classroom, or in other books Hey, Diddle, Dum Write the following... stick Invite children to use the stick puppets to act out the rhyme, and then make up other scenarios and actions using the puppets Silly Stories Reread the nursery rhyme and discuss whether what happened is real or make-believe Can a cow really jump over the moon? Can a dish run away with a spoon? Invite children to make up the silliest story they can involving a cat, a cow, a dog, a dish, and a spoon.You . N u r s e r y R h y m e READERSREADERS Nursery Rhyme Readers: Hey, Diddle, Diddle © Scholastic Teaching Resouces 2 Hey, diddle, diddle, Nursery Rhyme Readers: Hey, Diddle, Diddle © Scholastic Teaching. fiddle, Nursery Rhyme Readers: Hey, Diddle, Diddle © Scholastic Teaching Resouces 4 the cow jumped Nursery Rhyme Readers: Hey, Diddle, Diddle © Scholastic Teaching Resouces 5 over the moon. Nursery. moon. Nursery Rhyme Readers: Hey, Diddle, Diddle © Scholastic Teaching Resouces 6 The little dog laughed Nursery Rhyme Readers: Hey, Diddle, Diddle © Scholastic Teaching Resouces 7 to see such a sight, Nursery