Text Structures From Nursery Rhymes: Teaching Reading and Writing to Young Children(Corwin Literacy)

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

About the Author :
A popular workshop presenter and winner of NCTE’s James Moffett Award in 2010, Gretchen Bernabei has been teaching kids to write in middle school and high school classrooms for more than thirty years. In addition to four other professional books and numerous articles for NCTE journals, she is the author of National Geographic School Publications’ The Good Writer’s Kit, as well as Lightning in a Bottle, a CD of visual writing prompts. Kayla Shook, also known as Texas Teaching Fanatic, has been teaching 4th grade for 9 years in central Texas.  She works with teachers throughout the state to implement successful writing strategies.  She lives with her husband and son in San Marcos, TX. With more than 30 years in education, Jayne Hover has taught elementary, middle, and high school and been an administrator in several roles. She loves helping kids develop confidence through writing and has been instrumental in improving scores drastically on state-mandated tests. Jayne is a co-author of Crunchtime (2009, Heinemann), Text Structures from Nursery Rhymes (2018, Corwin), and Text Structures and Fables, Teaching Students to Write About What They Read (2023, Corwin). She lives near San Antonio, Texas and enjoys spending time with her husband, Jim.