NURSERY RHYME

ACTIVITIES: FREE

Jack and Jill

Baa, Baa, Black Sheep
Mary Had a Little Lamb
Hey, Diddle, Diddle

Created by:
Laurie Fyke
Nursery Rhyme Activities: FREE
Page Literacy Activities
2 Learning Opportunities– Reading Expectations (English Language Arts Standards)
taken from the Common Core (Kindergarten – Grade 1)
3 Sequencing Activity - Retell the • Auditory Memory ⬧ Auditory Discrimination
story with graphics and arrows. • Auditory Sequencing ⬧ Key Ideas and Details
Baa, Baa Black Sheep:
4 Word Search • Sight Words plus/ Word Recognition
Hey, Diddle, Diddle
5 Elkonin Boxes • Sight Words plus – units of sound
Baa, Baa, Black Sheep
6 Mary Had A Little Lamb • Visual Discrimination ⬧ Visual Memory
Strip Puzzle - a color and cut • Fine Motor Control
activity

7-9 ½ page Emergent Reader - Black
and White. Jack and Jill. Print
pages . Cut along the dotted
line. Place the top half over the
bottom half and staple the 6
page booklet.
10 Poster – Hey Diddle, Diddle
• Reading Skill Development / Concepts of Print
• Sight Words bolded. ½ page booklets - One of
the readers has the digraphs underlined. Print
double-sided. Flip page on the long edge.
•

Reading: Foundational Skills

Print Concepts:
• Demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic features of print.
• Follow words from left to right, top to bottom, and page by page.
• Recognize that spoken words are represented in written language by specific sequences of
letters.
• Understand that words are separated by spaces in print.
Phonological Awareness:
• Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes).
• Orally produce single-syllable words by blending sounds (phonemes), including consonant
blends.
Phonics and Word Recognition:
• Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
• Know the spelling-sound correspondences for common consonant digraphs.
• Decode regularly spelled one-syllable words.
• Know final -e and common vowel team conventions for representing long vowel sounds.
• Use knowledge that every syllable must have a vowel sound to determine the number of
syllables in a printed word.
• Recognize and read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words.
Fluency:
• Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
• Read grade-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive
readings.
Nursery Rhyme Activities: Emergent Readers SET 1 © L. Fyke @ Primarily Learning
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Name: ______________________________
lack

Nursery Rhyme Activities: Sequencing, Retelling, and Reading Response - SET 1 @ Primarily Learning
• Use the words at the bottom of the page. SIGHT WORDS plus
• Look for those words in the puzzle. • Recognize and identify the
• Cross off the word once you have found it. letter sequence used to
Note: Words can go horizontally left to right, or vertically from create words found in the
top to bottom. HAVE FUN! nursery rhyme.

Name: ______________________________ WORD SEARCH

a w a g d c l s
w i w f g h a p
o t a k n p u o
o h y j d o g r
j u m p e d h t
i d i d d l e d
l i t t l e d m
m o o n s u c h

diddle dog away such sport

little jumped laughed moon with

Hey, Diddle, Diddle
Nursery Rhyme Activities: Word Work - SET 1 © Primarily Learning
• Observe the Elkonin boxes on the left. SIGHT WORDS plus
• Check out the word on the right. • Know and apply grade–level
• Find a word where the configuration matches the box. phonics in decoding words.
• Print the word in the box. Read the word. • Recognize and read grade-
• Tricky words are bolded. Digraphs bolded and/or underlined. appropriate irregularly
Name: ______________________________ spelled words.

black

you

any

sheep

wool
Nursery Rhyme Activities: Word Work - SET 1 © Primarily Learning
• Color the picture. MATHEMATICS
• Cut out the puzzle pieces. • Sequence the numerals 1-5
• Mix the pieces up! VISUAL DISCRIMINATION
• Re-arrange them in the correct order, and glue them to • Match the puzzle pieces to
the puzzle base. make the picture.
FINE MOTOR
• Color within the lines.
Name: ______________________________ • Cut along the lines.

Nursery Rhyme Activities: Puzzles SET 1 © Primarily Learning

Mary
had a
Little
Lamb

1 2 3 4 5
 Jack and Jill

This book belongs to: ________________________

JACK AND JILL © L. Fyke @ Primarily Learning

Jack fell down,

and broke his crown,

JACK AND JILL © L. Fyke @ Primarily Learning

Jack and Jill went up the hill,

JACK AND JILL © L. Fyke @ Primarily Learning

And Jill came tumbling after.

JACK AND JILL © L. Fyke @ Primarily Learning

 To fetch a pail of water.

JACK AND JILL © L. Fyke @ Primarily Learning

Tricky words that have been bolded:

went water his down broke
the of to crown came

Digraphs and double letters that have been underlined:

ll ai ow th
ck er tch ng

CVCV / CCVCV - ‘magic /e/’ words:

broke
came
JACK AND JILL © L. Fyke @ Primarily Learning
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Nursery Rhymes: Posters and ¼ fold Booklets SET 1 © Primarily Learning

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