Kindergarden - Nursery Rhymes and Fables

78 Nursery Rhymes and Fables: Supplemental Guide 4B | Little Miss Muffet

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Beside

1. In today’s poem, you will hear that a spider sat down beside Little
   Miss Muffet.


2. Say the word beside with me three times.


3. When something or someone is beside you, that means it is next to
   you.


4. For example, “The [name of item] is beside the door.” Or, “The tennis
   courts are beside the playground.”


5. Identify who is sitting beside you. You should say, “ is sitting
   beside me.”

Purpose for Listening

The title of this poem is “Little Miss Muffet.” Ask students to listen

carefully to find out what the characters in this nursery rhyme—Little Miss

Muffet and the spider—do.

By the end of this lesson, students should be able to:

 Listen to and demonstrate familiarity with “Little Miss Muffet”

 Identify Little Miss Muffet and the spider as the characters in “Little

Miss Muffet”

 Retell the events in “Little Miss Muffet”

 Identify rhyming words in “Little Miss Muffet”