Phonological awareness package, level 1: Exposure to Nursery rhymes

As you can see in my summary about Phonological Awareness,  the exposure and knowledge of nursery rhymes is the first step when working on phonemic awareness with young learners.

The authors of the mentioned package suggest some rhymes and chants to use in our lessons. On the Internet you can find most of them, as they are famous rhymes for children. Some examples are the following chants and songs, probably the best-known:


HUMPTY DUMPTY
a very famous weird story about an egg cracking



IT'S RAINING, IT'S POURING



FIVE LITTLE MONKEYS JUMPING ON THE BED,
a song for counting from 5 to 0. When I was an au-pair, my children absolutely loved it



BAA BAA BLACK SHEEP,
another well-known song for English-speaking children


MARY HAD A LITTLE LAMB



According to the authors of the compilation, questions about rhyme should include:

  1. Which word does not rhyme?
  2. Which word has a different end sound?
  3. Can you think of a word that rhyme with __________?



Here you are a list with the name of every rhyme you can find in the package, in case you want to go further:
  • Hey Diddle Diddle!
  • Dickey, dickery, dare
  • Hark! Hark! The dogs do bark
  • Hickory, dickory, dock
  • Doctor Foster went to Gloucester
  • Humpty Dumpty
  • Kookaburra sits in and old gum tree
  • Ladybird! Ladybird!
  • Five Fat Peas
  • Pease Porrige hot
  • It's raining, it's pouring
  • One, two, three, four, five
  • Baa, baa, Black Sheep
  • Rain, rain, go away
  • Cobbler, cobbler, mend my shoe
  • Pussycat, Pussycat
  • My hands upon my head I'll place
  • Mary had a little lamb
  • Row, row, row you boat
  • Jack be nimble
  • Little Miss Muffet
  • Birthday Chant
  • Old Mother Hubbard
  • One potato, two potato
  • In Autumn when the trees are brown
  • Little Jack Horner
  • 1, 2, tie my shoe
  • The kites go up
  • Old mother Hubbard
  • Five little monkeys jumping on the bed
  • The clever rabbit
  • Vegetable soup
  • Nightening
  • One lonely bud driver all alone and blue
  • Five little fishes swimming in the pool
  • Number Rhyme
  • At the zoo we saw a bear
  • This little groggy broke his toe
  • I have a little toothbrush
  • The emu
  • Read to me
  • The elephant
  • Butterfly
  • Down
  • Jellybeans
  • The Monkey
  • Glue poem
  • Wibbly Wobbly
  • Read and yellow
  • Lots of animals live in the zoo
  • Everybody have a seat
  • Mrs Kangaroo
  • Michael Finnigin
  • Sitting on the floor
  • Tippy Tippy Tip Toe
  • Our voices
  • Higgledy Piggledy Pop
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