Kindergarden - Nursery Rhymes and Fables

Nursery Rhymes and Fables: Supplemental Guide 7B | Hickory, Dickory, Dock & Diddle, Diddle, Dumpling 141

John hugs a bear.

John wears one green shoe.

 Vocabulary Instructional Activity

Silly Words

1. Let’s say the nursery rhymes we learned today together.
   
   
   • Repeat “Hickory, Dickory, Dock” and “Diddle, Diddle, Dumpling.”
   
   
   
   


2. Are there any words in these poems you have never heard?
   
   
   • hickory, dickory, diddle
   
   
   
   


3. Sometimes poems will have silly words to make it sound interesting.
   These silly words could be words that we almost never use, like
   diddle, or they could be made up words, like dickory.


4. With your partner, identify the silly words in “Hickory, dickory, dock.”
   Make up similar silly words by changing the first sound in the words,
   e.g., “Pickory, mickory, lock.”


5. With your partner, identify silly words in “Diddle, diddle, dumpling.”
   Make up similar silly words by changing the first sound in the words,
   e.g., “Middle, fiddle, zumpling.”

 End-of-Lesson Check-In

Hickory, Dickory, Dock and Diddle, Diddle, Dumpling

Choose four students to focus on and record their scores on the Tens

Recording Chart. For this type of informal observation, you should

give a score of zero, five, or ten based on your evaluation of students’

understanding and language use.

0 Emergent understanding and language use

5 Developing understanding and language use

10 Proficient understanding and language use

• Have students place Response Cards 11–14 on their lap. (You may
  choose to focus on two nursery rhymes at a time.) Say a few key
  words from any of the nursery rhymes from the past two lessons (e.g.,
  wish, star, diamond, grandfather clock, mouse, stockings, etc.) and
  ask students to hold up the Response Card that relates to the words
  you say.


• Say the poem together.