Kindergarden - Nursery Rhymes and Fables

Nursery Rhymes and Fables: Supplemental Guide 4B | Little Miss Muffet 81

And frightened Miss Muffet away.

[Students should make a frightened face.]

Discussing the Read-Aloud 10 minutes

Comprehension Questions

If students have difficulty responding to questions, reread pertinent lines

of the nursery rhyme and/or refer to the image. If students give one-

word answers and/or fail to use read-aloud or domain vocabulary in their

responses, acknowledge correct responses by expanding students’

responses using richer and more complex language. Encourage students to

answer in complete sentences. Model answers using complete sentences.

1. Literal What is the title of this poem?
   
   
   • The title of this poem is “Little Miss Muffet.”
   
   
   
   


2. Literal Who are the characters in this nursery rhyme?
   [Have students point to Miss Muffet and the spider on Response Card
   8.]
   
   
   • Little Miss Muffet and the spider are the characters in this nursery rhyme.
   
   
   
   


3. Literal What is Little Miss Muffet doing?
   [Have students point to the tuffet and the curds and whey on
   Response Card 8.]
   
   
   • Little Miss Muffet is sitting on a tuffet and eating her curds and whey.
   
   
   
   


4. Inferential How does Little Miss Muffet feel about spiders?
   
   
   • Answers may vary, but should include Little Miss Muffet is scared of
     spiders.
   
   
   
   


5. Evaluative Could the events in this nursery rhyme really happen?
   Why?
   
   
   • Yes. The events in this nursery rhyme could really happen because you
     can sit on a tuffet, you can eat curds and whey, and a spider can be beside
     you.
   
   
   
   


6. Evaluative Which words rhyme in this poem?
   
   
   • Muffet and tuffet rhyme. Spider and beside her rhyme. Whey and away
     rhyme.
     [Please continue to model the Think Pair Share process for students, as
     necessary, and scaffold students in their use of the process.]