Kindergarden - Nursery Rhymes and Fables

Nursery Rhymes and Fables: Supplemental Guide 1 | Roses Are Red & Ring Around the Rosie 13

RRoses Are Red oses Are Red

&& Ring Around the Rosie Ring Around the Rosie^1

 Lesson Objectives

Core Content Objectives

Students will:

 Listen to and demonstrate familiarity with “Roses Are Red”

 Identify rhyming words in “Roses Are Red”

 Stop here if you choose to split the lesson into two parts.

 Listen to and demonstrate familiarity with “Ring Around the Rosie”

 Retell the events in “Ring Around the Rosie”

Language Arts Objectives

The following language arts objectives are addressed in this lesson.

Objectives aligning with the Common Core State Standards are noted

with the corresponding standard in parentheses. Refer to the Alignment

Chart for additional standards that are addressed in all lessons in this

domain.

Students will:

 With prompting and support, dramatize the nursery rhyme “Ring

Around the Rosie” in the proper sequence (RL.K.2)

 With prompting and support, describe illustrations, such as an

illustration of children playing “Ring Around the Rosie,” to support

comprehension of the read-aloud (RL.K.7)

 With prompting and support, compare and contrast similarities and

differences between roses and violets from the read-aloud (RL.K.9)

 Use frequently occurring nouns and verbs when building simple

sentences in shared language activities (L.K.1b)

 Produce simple sentences in shared language activities (L.K.1f)

 Identify new meanings for familiar words, such as ring, and apply

them accurately (L.K.4a)

 Identify real-life connections between words—sugar, pocket, ring, and

sweet—and their use (L.K.5c)