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2008 (Reprint)
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| Publication |
USA, Scholastic, 2008.
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| Description |
144pBlue Spine
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| Summary/Abstract |
Use the timeless appeal of nursery rhymes to foster a love of reading and develop important literary skills. They help children build background knowledge, practice word-building and phonics skills, expand vocabulary, and use descriptive language. Lessons also introduce comprehension skills such as retelling, sequencing, and exploring problems and solutions.
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| Contents |
About this book
Connections to the language arts standards
Teaching with the rhymes
Extending the lessons
References and resources
My nursery rhyme Read-and-Write Sheet
Phonics and word work
Bow-Wow (initial consonants)
Little Jack Horner (consonant blends and digraphs)
Baa, Baa, Black Sheep (short and long vowels)
Little Bo-Peep (short and long vowel phonograms)
The old woman who lived in a shoe (sight words)
Little Boy Blue (word building)
The Itsy Bitsy Spider (word building)
Vocabulary
Jack and Jill (action words)
Hey, Diddle, Diddle (positional words and phrases)
The Queen of Hearts (shape words)
Pease Porridge Hot (opposites)
Roses are Red (color words)
Mrs.Hen (number and color words)
Reading Comprehension and Writing
Humpty Dumpty (summarizing and retelling; problems and solutions)
Blow, Wind, Blow (sequencing)
Little Miss Muffet (point of view)
Three Little Kittens (descriptive language)
Old Mother Hubbard (fluency)
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| Standard Number |
0439155851 Pb.
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