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A Rhyme a Week: Nursery Rhymes for Early Literacy

Link: http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/go/wil/rimes_and_rhymes.htm

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 28 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. Downloadables include rhyme cards, picture card sets, riddle rhymes, and lesson plans.

• Cataloged: 02-23-04
• Contributor: Maggie Kersten
• Created: Center for the Improvement of Early Reading Achievement, Webbing into Literacy
• Author/Creator: Center for the Improvement of Early Reading Achievement, Webbing into Literacy
• Date Published: N/A
• Publisher: Center for the Improvement of Early Reading Achievement, Webbing into Literacy
• Source: Nevada Reading Excellence Act
• Resource Availability: 200 OK

This resource is cataloged under:

• Beneficiary: Individual: Parents
• Educational Type: Lesson plan
• Grade level: Elementary
• Language: English
• Learning Type: Narrative Text
• Network/channel: Early Literacy: Phonemic Awareness
• Subject: Literacy
• Resource Type: Text

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