Nursery Rhymes

Nursery Rhymes - Poetry You Should Know PowerPoint. 25 nursery rhymes from Mother Goose to teach students of all ages who may not be familiar with them. Promotes cultural literacy. This can be a great introduction to a poetry unit, and students can research some of the history and meanings of the old rhymes. Some of the poems had religious and other historical meanings. The slides have illustrations, and some of the rhymes have tunes associated with the slides. I have read aloud some of the rhymes. Younger students will enjoy the rhymes, and this projected on your whiteboard can supplement your nursery rhyme unit. Also use with older students to teach alliteration, repetition, and other sound devices and figurative language used in poetry. Updated July 2015.
Includes the following rhymes:
Baa Baa Black Sheep
Banbury Cross
Diddle Diddle Dumpling
Georgy Porgy
Hey Diddle Diddle
Humpty Dumpty
Jack and Jill
Jack Sprat
Little Boy Blue
Little Bo Peep
Little Polly Flinders
Mary Mary Quite Contrary
One Misty Moisty Morning
Polly Put the Kettle On
Pussy-Cat and the Queen
Rain Rain
Rock-a-bye Baby
Simple Simon
Sing a Song of Sixpence
Solomon Grundy
Three Blind Mice
To Market To Market
Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee
Wee Willie Winkie