Kindergarden - Nursery Rhymes and Fables

98 Nursery Rhymes and Fables: Supplemental Guide 5A | One, Two, Buckle My Shoe

Discussing the Read-Aloud 5 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 “One, Two Buckle My Shoe.”
   
   
   
   


2. Literal What does the nursery rhyme say to do to your shoe?
   [Have students point to this part of the poem on Response Card 10.]
   
   
   • It tells me to buckle my shoe.
   
   
   
   


3. Literal What does the nursery rhyme say to do to the door?
   [Have students point to this part of the poem on Response Card 10.]
   
   
   • It tells me to close the door.
   
   
   
   


4. Literal What does the nursery rhyme say to do to the sticks?
   [Have students point to this part of the poem on Response Card 10.]
   
   
   • It tells me to pick up the sticks and lay them straight.
   
   
   
   


5. Evaluative Are the events in this nursery rhyme real or make-believe?
   Why?
   
   
   • The events in this nursery are real because you can buckle your shoe;
     you can close the door; you can pick up sticks; you can lay sticks
     straight; and there are big fat hens.
   
   
   
   


6. Evaluative Which words rhyme in this poem?
   
   
   • Two/shoe; four/door; six/sticks; eight/straight; ten/hen rhyme.
     [Please continue to model the Think Pair Share process for students, as
     necessary, and scaffold students in their use of the process.]