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Seventy-One Additional Rhyme Cards for the WIL Home-School Book Reading Program |
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Seventy-One Additional Rhyme Cards for the WIL Home-School Book Reading Program |
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If "an apple a day will keep the doctor away", then perhaps a-rhyme-a-week will keep school failure at bay. WIL's A-Rhyme-a-Week phonological awareness program features 30 different nursery rhymes. The phonograms or "rimes" emphasized in our program were first identified by Richard Wylie and Donald Durrell in 1970. Examining a list of 1, 437 words commonly spoken by children in primary grades (Murphy, 1957), Wylie and Durrell identified 37 rimes that accounted for almost 500 words of Murphy's list. In determining the order of rhymes and rimes to present each week, we are following Fry's (1998) suggested consideration of frequency.
A-Rhyme-A-Week Instruction
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Understanding A-Rhyme-A-Week Components
We at WIL provide four different types of downloadable items each week for use with A-Rhyme-A-Week:
If you do not have Adobe Acrobat 4.0, you must download it to open and use our PDF files.
Although you can use these materials in any way that suits your individual needs, here is how we have used them with our New Mexico Head Start partners:
1. Download the featured nursery rhyme card. We've enlarged the card to an 11x17 size (and laminated the card) to make a poster-size version.
2. Download the picture card set. We've laminated these as well to add to their durability. We've also been punched holes so the cards can be used to create rhyming books for the classroom library. The last card in each set ("Our ILL Book", for example) serves as the cover.
3. Download the Riddle Rhyme Cards.
4. Download the Lesson Plans. Lesson Plans follow approximately the same format each week.
On Mondays, we revisit favorite rhymes, then introduce this week's new rhyme. Whenever we've been able to locate the tune, we teach children the rhyme through song. We also chant the rhyme, and work on its rhythm.
On Tuesdays, we emphasize acting out the rhyme, using our various Monday chants to provide the accompaniment for our "actors".
On Wednesdays, we introduce the rhyming picture set, explaining the new vocabulary that comes with the picture set.
On Thursdays, we work with the picture sets and the Riddle Rhymes.
On Fridays, we review, using new Riddle Rhymes, acting out, singing, and chanting.
Thirty Featured A-Rhyme-A-Week Units and Downloadables
Below we present 28 of the 30 weekly units of instruction for the A-Rhyme-A-Week curriculum; the remaining 2 units will appear at the end of this coming school year. We have selected the ordering of the rhymes, in general, by the frequency with which the rime unit appears in reading materials for young children. You are welcome to change the order to meet your own program needs.
Week 1: Downloadables for September 25-29
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Week 2: Downloadables for October 2-6
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Week 3: Downloadables for October 9 -13
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Week 4: Downloadables for October 16-20
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Week 5: Downloadables for October 30-November 3
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Week 6: Downloadables for November 6-10
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Week 7: Downloadables for November 13-17
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Week 8: Downloadables for November 20-24
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Week 9: Downloadables for November 27-December 1
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Week 10: Downloadables for December 4-8
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Week 11: Downloadables for December 11-14
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Week 12: Downloadables for January 8-12
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Week 13: Downloadables for January 15-19
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Week 14: Downloadables for January 22-26
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Week 15: Downloadables for January 29-February 2
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Week 16: Downloadables for February 5-9
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Week 17: Downloadables for February 12-16
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Week 18: Downloadables for February 19-23
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Week 19: Downloadables for February 26-March 2
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Week 20: Downloadables for March 5-9
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Week 21: Downloadables for March 12-16
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Week 22: Downloadables for March 19-23
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Week 23: Downloadables for March 26-30
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Week 24: Downloadables for April 2-6
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Week 25: Downloadables for April 9-13
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Week 26: Downloadables for April 23-27
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Week 27: Downloadables for April 30-May 4
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Week 28: Downloadables for May 9-13
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Why Use Classic Nursery Rhymes?
When I've been asked why I decided to use the classic nursery rhymes as the basis for WIL's phonological awareness program, the first answer that always comes to my mind is simply that the rhymes are fun. Children for generations have enjoyed the silliness of the characters' antics. But there's much more to these rhymes than simply their good humor and their aboundingly enthusiastic rhythm. The rhymes are the canon of our youngest set.
Nursery rhymes introduce young listeners to story structure in its most basic form. There's an orientation -- Peter Pumpkin eater has a wife. There's a problem -- He's having trouble keeping her. And, there's a resolution -- He puts her in a pumpkin shell and there he keeps her very well.
Nursery rhymes also introduce children to a cast of characters who are likely to reappear throughout their school lives. You can't enjoy the Ahlberg's delightful Each Peach Pear Plum if you don't get the allusions to the nursery rhymes.
Nursery rhymes also greatly enrich young children's vocabularies and supply some early lessons in the ways our language works. Jack Sprat is lean; when we read this rhyme to children, we have to explain that word. And children add another word to their developing vocabularies. When a child asks, "What does it mean -- Molly my sister and I fell out?", you explain that "fell out" is an expression we don't use much anymore. It used to mean "had an argument". And children get a glimpse of how words and expressions work in English.
Then, too, nursery rhymes encourage thinking skills. Particularly entertaining are the riddle rhymes like Little Nancy Etticoat or Hick-A-More, Hack-A-More. Children like the challenge of a riddle. We've followed Mother Goose's lead, including riddle rhymes as part of our weekly instruction.
Finally, the nursery rhymes provide short, simple texts. While their uncontrolled vocabulary may occasionally make them tough to decode, their unrelenting rhythm makes them perfect for emerging readers who are developing their concepts of what a word is.
WIL's Thirty Featured Rimes and Rhymes
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Seventy-One Other Take Home Rhymes
Believing that reading at home is a critical component to children's eventual school success, we at WIL have designed the Home-School Library. Each of our 101 recommended books has a classic nursery rhyme card associated with it; these rhyme cards are placed by families and children in the My Very Own Nursery Rhyme Collection notebooks.return to top