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This Hey Diddle Diddle poetry center includes standards-based activities using familiar nursery rhymes and children’s songs set to music. Created for independent literacy centers, these poetry activities help students strengthen fluency while building rhyme recognition and phonological awareness. Both print and digital formats are included, making it flexible and easy to use for your literacy plans.
This Hey Diddle Diddle poetry center includes both printable and digital nursery rhyme activities, and gives teachers flexible options for whole group lessons, small group practice, or independent poetry centers.
Hey Diddle Diddle Poem (color & b&w): Full-page poem for whole group or independent practice.
Hey Diddle Diddle Mini Book: A foldable 4-page version of the poem for students to keep and reread.
Hey Diddle Diddle Poem Strips: Each line of the poem is printed in boxes for retelling practice, with a blank template included.
Fill-in-the-Blank Poem: Students use a word bank to complete the missing words.
Visualization Exercise: Students draw what they pictured in their minds after reading the poem.
Rhyming Page: Students practice phonological awareness by matching words from the poem with new rhyming words in a cut-and-paste activity.
QR Code Page: Students scan to watch the video of the poem set to music.
Video Access: Students watch and listen to the poem set to music.
Read the Hey Diddle Diddle Poem: Digital version of the poem for fluency practice.
Rhyming Slides: Students drag and drop words to match rhymes from the poem, giving them interactive practice with rhyme recognition.
Fill-in-the-Blank: Students drag words from a word bank to complete missing parts of the poem, reinforcing comprehension and fluency.
Fluency is a key part of the Science of Reading because it connects word recognition to comprehension. When students can read smoothly and automatically, their attention shifts from decoding to understanding.
These poetry activities support fluency through repeated readings, rhythm, and phrasing practice, giving students multiple opportunities to hear, read, and perform familiar poems.
Download the Hey Diddle Diddle poetry activities to build reading fluency, rhyme recognition, and phonological awareness in your first grade classroom.
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"The activities are fun, interactive, and align perfectly with the curriculum standards. I love how easy it is to incorporate them into my lesson plans, and my students have improved their spelling skills significantly since we started using these activities."
1 review for Hey Diddle Diddle Poetry Center – Nursery Rhyme Activities for 1st Grade
Carolyn L. (verified owner) –
I’m using these for our poetry unit. My students are enjoying them. Thank you!
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