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This activity is recommended for use with an interactive whiteboard

Listening to and reading a well known nursery rhyme and identifying the missing rhymes.

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Learning objectives/outcomes:
England: ELG Listen to favourite nursery rhymes, stories and songs. Join in with repeated refrains, anticipating key events and important phrases.
NLS Reception, W1: To understand and be able to rhyme through: recognising, exploring and working with rhyming patterns e.g learning nursery rhymes; to re-read and recite stories and rhymes with predictable and repeated patterns; reading a wide range of traditional nursery rhymes.
Y1, T1: text level 6: to recite stories, and rhymes with predictable and repeating patterns, extemporising on patterns orally by substituting words and phrases, extending patterns and playing with rhyme.
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Clip ArtPrintable assessment sheet
Additional informationAdditional information:
Megahops: The maximum number of megahops awarded in this activity is 1. The award is given when a child successfully completes the activity and is not dependent on how many questions the child gets right or wrong.
Location in Spark Island: Spark Park: farmhouse kitchen
Related activity information: To support further work on nursery rhymes, take a look at Hey Diddle Diddle.

SEN information
Suitable for children with Cognition and Learning Needs including children with Specific and Moderate Learning Difficulties. This activity can also be used with children with Severe Learning Difficulties as it reads the rhyme and the characters act it out. This activity has full sound. Text is read for children, which should ensure the activity can be undertaken by children who are not confident readers or who have difficulties with reading, thereby giving all children the opportunity to succeed at the activity and also gain a sense of independence.

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