Time for a RhymebyYoneka Dayal

Time for a Rhyme is a splendid presentation of nursery rhymes. The aim is to educate and entertain.

Literacy value:

• Pre-reading skills
• Rhythm and rhyme
• Left to right directionality
• Phonetic awareness
• New words and concepts
• Memorisation and recall
• Understanding of text
• Dramatisation, humour, and expression
• Assistance with speech development
• Language: punctuation, vocabulary, reading writing and oral language

Maths value:

• Opportunities to problem solve
• Develop logic and reasoning
• Communicate mathematical ideas
• Basic number knowledge counting up to 20
• Simple addition sums
• Simple subtraction sums
• Measurement, geometry, algebra and statistics

These are just some of the learning activities provided, there are many more. Teachers have many choices on how to use this resource. Open and begin!

About the author:

Yoneka Dayal has a BSc in Psychology and a Diploma of Teaching. She taught new entrants for several years. Yoneka now combines motherhood with her love for teaching by doing teacher release in junior classes.

[88 Pages]

[Author: Yoneka Dayal]

[Age Suitability: Early Years]

[Published: 2010]

[ISBN: 9781869686215]

[CODE: UF-6215]