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Nursery rhymes support early language, listening skills, and cognitive development through chant and repetition.

Objectives

Materials

Instructions

1. Ask children riddles or descriptive rhymes about animals.

2. Encourage students to act out or guess the answers.

3. Repeat several times using different prompts.

4. Allow children to make up their own animal riddles.

5. Use the opportunity to introduce new vocabulary.

Educator tip

Reinforce turn-taking by calling on different students each round.

Assessment

Check student participation, verbal or physical response accuracy, and language use.

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