Nursery Rhymes and Fables: Supplemental Guide 9 | Baa, Baa, Black Sheep & Humpty Dumpty 159
BBaa, Baa, Black Sheepaa, Baa, Black Sheep
&& Humpty Dumpty Humpty Dumpty^9
Lesson Objectives
Core Content Objectives
Students will:
Listen to and demonstrate familiarity with “Baa, Baa, Black Sheep”
Retell the events in “Baa, Baa, Black Sheep”
Identify dialogue in “Baa, Baa, Black Sheep”
Stop here if you choose to split the lesson into two parts.
Listen to and demonstrate familiarity with “Humpty Dumpty”
Identify the character Humpty Dumpty
Retell the events in “Humpty Dumpty”
Identify rhyming words in “Humpty Dumpty”
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 “Baa, Baa,
Black Sheep” in the proper sequence (RL.K.2)
Listen to, understand, and memorize a nursery rhyme from a variety
of nursery rhymes (RL.K.5)
With prompting and support, describe illustrations, such as an
illustration of a sheep with three bags of wool, picture of sheep
shearing, and an illustration of Humpty Dumpty, to support
comprehension of the read-aloud (RL.K.7)
With prompting and support, describe similarities between “Baa, Baa,
Black Sheep,” “Little Bo Peep,” and “Little Boy Blue” (RL.K.9)