Nursery Rhymes

This literacy scheme of work for the Foundation Stage gets the children to identify and describe the sequence of events and characters that feature in a range of different narrative poems with rhymes. The class can suggest and model how to change and adapt characters and events from different poems.

Three Blind Mice

Identify and record each of the initial phonemes used in different words as part of a traditional story poem of a nursery rhyme

Jack and Jill

Identify and change some of the different sets of rhyming words that have been used in a traditional narrative poem of a nursery rhyme

Old Macdonald’s Farm

Identify and use a selection of vocabulary words in a nursery rhyme poem to describe some of the different animals that live on a farm

Mulberry Bush

Perform actions and select vocabulary words to complete some of the different lines that feature in a traditional poem of a nursery rhyme