Text Structures From Nursery Rhymes
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It’s one of education’s greatest challenges: How do we shape our youngest students, who often are just learning how to hold a pencil, into capable writers within the span of a single school year?
Text Structures from Nursery Rhymes offers the solution: a clear and actionable framework for guiding young students to write successfully in any style, from narrative to descriptive to persuasive.
The key to the strategy lies in using familiar text structures to break down a story into its main components — for example, “Where I was,” “Who I saw,” and “What I thought” — in order to immediately thrust students into the role of the writer.
This groundbreaking book provides 53 lessons, each centered around a classic nursery rhyme, and all the tools you’ll need to
- Capitalize on the story’s rhythm and rhyme to make an instant connection with your students
- Convey the story’s text structure using the lesson’s whimsical illustrations, providing a visual model that resonates with children
- Lead the classroom in creating new stories — in words, pictures, or both — utilizing the text structure you’ve defined
- Put each nursery rhyme to work as a springboard for important language-arts topics
- Fine-tune your approach at every step based on your preferred teaching style and students’ progress
Put Text Structures from Nursery Rhymes to work in your classroom and discover how text structures, already a remarkable success in later grades, can also have a profound impact on younger students’ progress.
Bonus!
Includes eight downloadable paper dolls—1 man, 1 woman, 1 girl, 1 boy, and 4 animals. Your students can use the paper dolls to retell the nursery rhymes, illustrate their own stories based on a nursery rhyme, or even to act out stories from other books in your classroom library.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments
Introduction
- LESSON 1
- Structure: Not What I Thought Would Happen
- Nursery Rhyme: A Diller, a Dollar
- LESSON 2
- Structure: Spotting Someone Famous
- Nursery Rhyme: As I Was Going by Charing Cross
- LESSON 3
- Structure: More Than One
- Nursery Rhyme: Baa, Baa, Black Sheep
- LESSON 4
- Structure: Something I Used to Have
- Nursery Rhyme: Betty Pringle
- LESSON 5
- Structure: Someone Left
- Nursery Rhyme: Bobby Shaftoe
- LESSON 6
- Structure: Big News!
- Nursery Rhyme: Brave News Is Come to Town
- LESSON 7
- Structure: Where Did They Go?
- Nursery Rhyme: Bye, Baby Bunting
- LESSON 8
- Structure: We Don’t Have What We Need—Problem/Solution
- Nursery Rhyme: Cock a Doodle Do
- LESSON 9
- Structure: Something Happened
- Nursery Rhyme: Fiddle-De-Dee
- LESSON 10
- Structure: Getting Caught
- Nursery Rhyme: Georgie Porgie
- LESSON 11
- Structure: Travel Map
- Nursery Rhyme: Goosey Goosey Gander
- LESSON 12
- Structure: What Everyone Was Doing at the Time—A Four-Person Snapshot
- Nursery Rhyme: Hey Diddle Diddle
- LESSON 13
- Structure: Jump Scare
- Nursery Rhyme: Hickory Dickory Dock
- LESSON 14
- Structure: What My Pet Might Do
- Nursery Rhyme: Higglety Pigglety
- LESSON 15
- Structure: For Sale
- Nursery Rhyme: Hot Cross Buns
- LESSON 16
- Structure: An Accident
- Nursery Rhyme: Humpty Dumpty
- LESSON 17
- Structure: Someone Borrowed My _________
- Nursery Rhyme: I Had a Little Pony
- LESSON 18
- Structure: What If
- Nursery Rhyme: If All the World Were Apple Pie
- LESSON 19
- Structure: All About Something—A Description
- Nursery Rhyme: I’m a Little Teapot
- LESSON 20
- Structure: Try, Try Again
- Nursery Rhyme: The Itsy Bitsy Spider
- LESSON 21
- Structure: Ouch! That Hurt!
- Nursery Rhyme: Jack and Jill
- LESSON 22
- Structure: Helping Someone
- Nursery Rhyme: Jack Be Nimble
- LESSON 23
- Structure: Win-Win
- Nursery Rhyme: Jack Sprat
- LESSON 24
- Structure: News Report
- Nursery Rhyme: Ladybug, Ladybug
- LESSON 25
- Structure: Something Is Lost—Problem/Solution
- Nursery Rhyme: Little Bo Peep
- LESSON 26
- Structure: What a Mess! Help!
- Nursery Rhyme: Little Boy Blue
- LESSON 27
- Structure: Good Job!
- Nursery Rhyme: Little Jack Horner
- LESSON 28
- Structure: Defining a Feeling
- Nursery Rhyme: Little Jumping Joan
- LESSON 29
- Structure: My Short Story
- Nursery Rhyme: Little Miss Muffet
- LESSON 30
- Structure: Three Questions
- Nursery Rhyme: Little Tommy Tucker
- LESSON 31
- Structure: I Lost Something!
- Nursery Rhyme: Lucy Locket
- LESSON 32
- Structure: Prized Possession
- Nursery Rhyme: Mary Had a Little Lamb
- LESSON 33
- Structure: Polite Q and A
- Nursery Rhyme: Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary
- LESSON 34
- Structure: All About Someone—A Character Analysis
- Nursery Rhyme: Old King Cole
- LESSON 35
- Structure: A Disappointment
- Nursery Rhyme: Old Mother Hubbard
- LESSON 36
- Structure: Making Something
- Nursery Rhyme: Pat-a-Cake, Pat-a-Cake
- LESSON 37
- Structure: Three Ways It Can Be
- Nursery Rhyme: Pease Porridge Hot
- LESSON 38
- Structure: Happy Ending
- Nursery Rhyme: Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater
- LESSON 39
- Structure: Change of Plans
- Nursery Rhyme: Polly, Put the Kettle On
- LESSON 40
- Structure: Small Talk
- Nursery Rhyme: Pussycat, Pussycat
- LESSON 41
- Structure: I Don’t Want That Right Now
- Nursery Rhyme: Rain, Rain, Go Away
- LESSON 42
- Structure: From Good to Bad
- Nursery Rhyme: Rock-a-Bye Baby
- LESSON 43
- Structure: Who’s That?
- Nursery Rhyme: Rub-a-Dub-Dub
- LESSON 44
- Structure: New Job
- Nursery Rhyme: Seesaw Margery Daw
- LESSON 45
- Structure: No, You Can’t Have My Things—A Dialogue
- Nursery Rhyme: Simple Simon
- LESSON 46
- Structure: Something Crazy Happened
- Nursery Rhyme: Sing a Song of Sixpence
- LESSON 47
- Structure: Fun Word Story
- Nursery Rhyme: There Was a Crooked Man
- LESSON 48
- Structure: Problem That Can’t Be Fixed
- Nursery Rhyme: There Was an Old Woman
- LESSON 49
- Structure: Going Shopping
- Nursery Rhyme: To Market, to Market
- LESSON 50
- Structure: Somebody Broke a Rule
- Nursery Rhyme: Tom, Tom, the Piper’s Son
- LESSON 51
- Structure: The Fight
- Nursery Rhyme: Tweedle-Dum and Tweedle-Dee
- LESSON 52
- Structure: Talking to Something—Personification
- Nursery Rhyme: Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star
- LESSON 53
- Structure: Too Bossy
- Nursery Rhyme: Wee Willie Winkie
Appendices
- 1. Complete Collection of 53 Text Structures
- 2. Text Structures for a Busy Town
- 3. Text Structures for Caring About Others
- 4. Text Structures for Feelings
- 5. Text Structures for Problem Solving
- 6. Text Structures for Travel
- 7. Text Structures for Unfairness
- 8. Text Structures Just for Fun
- 9. Text Structure Templates
- 10. Stationery Templates
About the Authors
About the Authors
Resources
Companion Website
https://resources.corwin.com/nurseryrhymesDescription
It’s one of education’s greatest challenges: How do we shape our youngest students, who often are just learning how to hold a pencil, into capable writers within the span of a single school year?
Text Structures from Nursery Rhymes offers the solution: a clear and actionable framework for guiding young students to write successfully in any style, from narrative to descriptive to persuasive.
The key to the strategy lies in using familiar text structures to break down a story into its main components — for example, “Where I was,” “Who I saw,” and “What I thought” — in order to immediately thrust students into the role of the writer.
This groundbreaking book provides 53 lessons, each centered around a classic nursery rhyme, and all the tools you’ll need to
- Capitalize on the story’s rhythm and rhyme to make an instant connection with your students
- Convey the story’s text structure using the lesson’s whimsical illustrations, providing a visual model that resonates with children
- Lead the classroom in creating new stories — in words, pictures, or both — utilizing the text structure you’ve defined
- Put each nursery rhyme to work as a springboard for important language-arts topics
- Fine-tune your approach at every step based on your preferred teaching style and students’ progress
Put Text Structures from Nursery Rhymes to work in your classroom and discover how text structures, already a remarkable success in later grades, can also have a profound impact on younger students’ progress.
Bonus!
Includes eight downloadable paper dolls—1 man, 1 woman, 1 girl, 1 boy, and 4 animals. Your students can use the paper dolls to retell the nursery rhymes, illustrate their own stories based on a nursery rhyme, or even to act out stories from other books in your classroom library.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments
Introduction
- LESSON 1
- Structure: Not What I Thought Would Happen
- Nursery Rhyme: A Diller, a Dollar
- LESSON 2
- Structure: Spotting Someone Famous
- Nursery Rhyme: As I Was Going by Charing Cross
- LESSON 3
- Structure: More Than One
- Nursery Rhyme: Baa, Baa, Black Sheep
- LESSON 4
- Structure: Something I Used to Have
- Nursery Rhyme: Betty Pringle
- LESSON 5
- Structure: Someone Left
- Nursery Rhyme: Bobby Shaftoe
- LESSON 6
- Structure: Big News!
- Nursery Rhyme: Brave News Is Come to Town
- LESSON 7
- Structure: Where Did They Go?
- Nursery Rhyme: Bye, Baby Bunting
- LESSON 8
- Structure: We Don’t Have What We Need—Problem/Solution
- Nursery Rhyme: Cock a Doodle Do
- LESSON 9
- Structure: Something Happened
- Nursery Rhyme: Fiddle-De-Dee
- LESSON 10
- Structure: Getting Caught
- Nursery Rhyme: Georgie Porgie
- LESSON 11
- Structure: Travel Map
- Nursery Rhyme: Goosey Goosey Gander
- LESSON 12
- Structure: What Everyone Was Doing at the Time—A Four-Person Snapshot
- Nursery Rhyme: Hey Diddle Diddle
- LESSON 13
- Structure: Jump Scare
- Nursery Rhyme: Hickory Dickory Dock
- LESSON 14
- Structure: What My Pet Might Do
- Nursery Rhyme: Higglety Pigglety
- LESSON 15
- Structure: For Sale
- Nursery Rhyme: Hot Cross Buns
- LESSON 16
- Structure: An Accident
- Nursery Rhyme: Humpty Dumpty
- LESSON 17
- Structure: Someone Borrowed My _________
- Nursery Rhyme: I Had a Little Pony
- LESSON 18
- Structure: What If
- Nursery Rhyme: If All the World Were Apple Pie
- LESSON 19
- Structure: All About Something—A Description
- Nursery Rhyme: I’m a Little Teapot
- LESSON 20
- Structure: Try, Try Again
- Nursery Rhyme: The Itsy Bitsy Spider
- LESSON 21
- Structure: Ouch! That Hurt!
- Nursery Rhyme: Jack and Jill
- LESSON 22
- Structure: Helping Someone
- Nursery Rhyme: Jack Be Nimble
- LESSON 23
- Structure: Win-Win
- Nursery Rhyme: Jack Sprat
- LESSON 24
- Structure: News Report
- Nursery Rhyme: Ladybug, Ladybug
- LESSON 25
- Structure: Something Is Lost—Problem/Solution
- Nursery Rhyme: Little Bo Peep
- LESSON 26
- Structure: What a Mess! Help!
- Nursery Rhyme: Little Boy Blue
- LESSON 27
- Structure: Good Job!
- Nursery Rhyme: Little Jack Horner
- LESSON 28
- Structure: Defining a Feeling
- Nursery Rhyme: Little Jumping Joan
- LESSON 29
- Structure: My Short Story
- Nursery Rhyme: Little Miss Muffet
- LESSON 30
- Structure: Three Questions
- Nursery Rhyme: Little Tommy Tucker
- LESSON 31
- Structure: I Lost Something!
- Nursery Rhyme: Lucy Locket
- LESSON 32
- Structure: Prized Possession
- Nursery Rhyme: Mary Had a Little Lamb
- LESSON 33
- Structure: Polite Q and A
- Nursery Rhyme: Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary
- LESSON 34
- Structure: All About Someone—A Character Analysis
- Nursery Rhyme: Old King Cole
- LESSON 35
- Structure: A Disappointment
- Nursery Rhyme: Old Mother Hubbard
- LESSON 36
- Structure: Making Something
- Nursery Rhyme: Pat-a-Cake, Pat-a-Cake
- LESSON 37
- Structure: Three Ways It Can Be
- Nursery Rhyme: Pease Porridge Hot
- LESSON 38
- Structure: Happy Ending
- Nursery Rhyme: Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater
- LESSON 39
- Structure: Change of Plans
- Nursery Rhyme: Polly, Put the Kettle On
- LESSON 40
- Structure: Small Talk
- Nursery Rhyme: Pussycat, Pussycat
- LESSON 41
- Structure: I Don’t Want That Right Now
- Nursery Rhyme: Rain, Rain, Go Away
- LESSON 42
- Structure: From Good to Bad
- Nursery Rhyme: Rock-a-Bye Baby
- LESSON 43
- Structure: Who’s That?
- Nursery Rhyme: Rub-a-Dub-Dub
- LESSON 44
- Structure: New Job
- Nursery Rhyme: Seesaw Margery Daw
- LESSON 45
- Structure: No, You Can’t Have My Things—A Dialogue
- Nursery Rhyme: Simple Simon
- LESSON 46
- Structure: Something Crazy Happened
- Nursery Rhyme: Sing a Song of Sixpence
- LESSON 47
- Structure: Fun Word Story
- Nursery Rhyme: There Was a Crooked Man
- LESSON 48
- Structure: Problem That Can’t Be Fixed
- Nursery Rhyme: There Was an Old Woman
- LESSON 49
- Structure: Going Shopping
- Nursery Rhyme: To Market, to Market
- LESSON 50
- Structure: Somebody Broke a Rule
- Nursery Rhyme: Tom, Tom, the Piper’s Son
- LESSON 51
- Structure: The Fight
- Nursery Rhyme: Tweedle-Dum and Tweedle-Dee
- LESSON 52
- Structure: Talking to Something—Personification
- Nursery Rhyme: Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star
- LESSON 53
- Structure: Too Bossy
- Nursery Rhyme: Wee Willie Winkie
Appendices
- 1. Complete Collection of 53 Text Structures
- 2. Text Structures for a Busy Town
- 3. Text Structures for Caring About Others
- 4. Text Structures for Feelings
- 5. Text Structures for Problem Solving
- 6. Text Structures for Travel
- 7. Text Structures for Unfairness
- 8. Text Structures Just for Fun
- 9. Text Structure Templates
- 10. Stationery Templates
About the Authors
About the Authors
Resources
Companion Website
https://resources.corwin.com/nurseryrhymes
Text Structures From Nursery Rhymes
Teaching Reading and Writing to Young Children
September 2017 | 280 pages | Corwin
| Format | Published Date | ISBN | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paperback | 01/01/2025 | 9781506387963 | $40.95 |
| Lifetime | 01/01/2025 | 9781506387956 | $37.00 |
It’s one of education’s greatest challenges: How do we shape our youngest students, who often are just learning how to hold a pencil, into capable writers within the span of a single school year?
Text Structures from Nursery Rhymes offers the solution: a clear and actionable framework for guiding young students to write successfully in any style, from narrative to descriptive to persuasive.
The key to the strategy lies in using familiar text structures to break down a story into its main components — for example, “Where I was,” “Who I saw,” and “What I thought” — in order to immediately thrust students into the role of the writer.
This groundbreaking book provides 53 lessons, each centered around a classic nursery rhyme, and all the tools you’ll need to
- Capitalize on the story’s rhythm and rhyme to make an instant connection with your students
- Convey the story’s text structure using the lesson’s whimsical illustrations, providing a visual model that resonates with children
- Lead the classroom in creating new stories — in words, pictures, or both — utilizing the text structure you’ve defined
- Put each nursery rhyme to work as a springboard for important language-arts topics
- Fine-tune your approach at every step based on your preferred teaching style and students’ progress
Put Text Structures from Nursery Rhymes to work in your classroom and discover how text structures, already a remarkable success in later grades, can also have a profound impact on younger students’ progress.
Bonus!
Includes eight downloadable paper dolls—1 man, 1 woman, 1 girl, 1 boy, and 4 animals. Your students can use the paper dolls to retell the nursery rhymes, illustrate their own stories based on a nursery rhyme, or even to act out stories from other books in your classroom library.
Table Of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- LESSON 1
- Structure: Not What I Thought Would Happen
- Nursery Rhyme: A Diller, a Dollar
- LESSON 2
- Structure: Spotting Someone Famous
- Nursery Rhyme: As I Was Going by Charing Cross
- LESSON 3
- Structure: More Than One
- Nursery Rhyme: Baa, Baa, Black Sheep
- LESSON 4
- Structure: Something I Used to Have
- Nursery Rhyme: Betty Pringle
- LESSON 5
- Structure: Someone Left
- Nursery Rhyme: Bobby Shaftoe
- LESSON 6
- Structure: Big News!
- Nursery Rhyme: Brave News Is Come to Town
- LESSON 7
- Structure: Where Did They Go?
- Nursery Rhyme: Bye, Baby Bunting
- LESSON 8
- Structure: We Don’t Have What We Need—Problem/Solution
- Nursery Rhyme: Cock a Doodle Do
- LESSON 9
- Structure: Something Happened
- Nursery Rhyme: Fiddle-De-Dee
- LESSON 10
- Structure: Getting Caught
- Nursery Rhyme: Georgie Porgie
- LESSON 11
- Structure: Travel Map
- Nursery Rhyme: Goosey Goosey Gander
- LESSON 12
- Structure: What Everyone Was Doing at the Time—A Four-Person Snapshot
- Nursery Rhyme: Hey Diddle Diddle
- LESSON 13
- Structure: Jump Scare
- Nursery Rhyme: Hickory Dickory Dock
- LESSON 14
- Structure: What My Pet Might Do
- Nursery Rhyme: Higglety Pigglety
- LESSON 15
- Structure: For Sale
- Nursery Rhyme: Hot Cross Buns
- LESSON 16
- Structure: An Accident
- Nursery Rhyme: Humpty Dumpty
- LESSON 17
- Structure: Someone Borrowed My _________
- Nursery Rhyme: I Had a Little Pony
- LESSON 18
- Structure: What If
- Nursery Rhyme: If All the World Were Apple Pie
- LESSON 19
- Structure: All About Something—A Description
- Nursery Rhyme: I’m a Little Teapot
- LESSON 20
- Structure: Try, Try Again
- Nursery Rhyme: The Itsy Bitsy Spider
- LESSON 21
- Structure: Ouch! That Hurt!
- Nursery Rhyme: Jack and Jill
- LESSON 22
- Structure: Helping Someone
- Nursery Rhyme: Jack Be Nimble
- LESSON 23
- Structure: Win-Win
- Nursery Rhyme: Jack Sprat
- LESSON 24
- Structure: News Report
- Nursery Rhyme: Ladybug, Ladybug
- LESSON 25
- Structure: Something Is Lost—Problem/Solution
- Nursery Rhyme: Little Bo Peep
- LESSON 26
- Structure: What a Mess! Help!
- Nursery Rhyme: Little Boy Blue
- LESSON 27
- Structure: Good Job!
- Nursery Rhyme: Little Jack Horner
- LESSON 28
- Structure: Defining a Feeling
- Nursery Rhyme: Little Jumping Joan
- LESSON 29
- Structure: My Short Story
- Nursery Rhyme: Little Miss Muffet
- LESSON 30
- Structure: Three Questions
- Nursery Rhyme: Little Tommy Tucker
- LESSON 31
- Structure: I Lost Something!
- Nursery Rhyme: Lucy Locket
- LESSON 32
- Structure: Prized Possession
- Nursery Rhyme: Mary Had a Little Lamb
- LESSON 33
- Structure: Polite Q and A
- Nursery Rhyme: Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary
- LESSON 34
- Structure: All About Someone—A Character Analysis
- Nursery Rhyme: Old King Cole
- LESSON 35
- Structure: A Disappointment
- Nursery Rhyme: Old Mother Hubbard
- LESSON 36
- Structure: Making Something
- Nursery Rhyme: Pat-a-Cake, Pat-a-Cake
- LESSON 37
- Structure: Three Ways It Can Be
- Nursery Rhyme: Pease Porridge Hot
- LESSON 38
- Structure: Happy Ending
- Nursery Rhyme: Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater
- LESSON 39
- Structure: Change of Plans
- Nursery Rhyme: Polly, Put the Kettle On
- LESSON 40
- Structure: Small Talk
- Nursery Rhyme: Pussycat, Pussycat
- LESSON 41
- Structure: I Don’t Want That Right Now
- Nursery Rhyme: Rain, Rain, Go Away
- LESSON 42
- Structure: From Good to Bad
- Nursery Rhyme: Rock-a-Bye Baby
- LESSON 43
- Structure: Who’s That?
- Nursery Rhyme: Rub-a-Dub-Dub
- LESSON 44
- Structure: New Job
- Nursery Rhyme: Seesaw Margery Daw
- LESSON 45
- Structure: No, You Can’t Have My Things—A Dialogue
- Nursery Rhyme: Simple Simon
- LESSON 46
- Structure: Something Crazy Happened
- Nursery Rhyme: Sing a Song of Sixpence
- LESSON 47
- Structure: Fun Word Story
- Nursery Rhyme: There Was a Crooked Man
- LESSON 48
- Structure: Problem That Can’t Be Fixed
- Nursery Rhyme: There Was an Old Woman
- LESSON 49
- Structure: Going Shopping
- Nursery Rhyme: To Market, to Market
- LESSON 50
- Structure: Somebody Broke a Rule
- Nursery Rhyme: Tom, Tom, the Piper’s Son
- LESSON 51
- Structure: The Fight
- Nursery Rhyme: Tweedle-Dum and Tweedle-Dee
- LESSON 52
- Structure: Talking to Something—Personification
- Nursery Rhyme: Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star
- LESSON 53
- Structure: Too Bossy
- Nursery Rhyme: Wee Willie Winkie
- Appendices
- 1. Complete Collection of 53 Text Structures
- 2. Text Structures for a Busy Town
- 3. Text Structures for Caring About Others
- 4. Text Structures for Feelings
- 5. Text Structures for Problem Solving
- 6. Text Structures for Travel
- 7. Text Structures for Unfairness
- 8. Text Structures Just for Fun
- 9. Text Structure Templates
- 10. Stationery Templates
- About the Authors