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Direct linkRoush, Betty E. – Reading Teacher, 2005
The author shares activities for use in the primary classroom that require active participation with nursery rhymes through dramatization. The activities involve repeated readings, reading in context, and examining rhyming components, and help to develop young children's phonemic awareness and oral language skills.
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Drama, Nursery Rhymes, Reading Skills
Peer reviewedGeller, Linda Gibson – Language Arts, 1983
Examines children's attraction to rhythm and rhyme of nursery rhymes and how these factors affect literacy. Discusses the connection between rhyme and reading and spelling acquisition. (HTH)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Child Language, Language Acquisition, Language Patterns
