Rhymes, Tickles & Fingerplays

Rhyming and sound repetition help children hear that words are made up of individual sounds.

This ability is a key to opening up the door into the world of language and literacy.

Nursery Rhymes (pdf) Hickory Dickory Dock Little Boy Blue Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star Tickles and Bounces (pdf) Round and Round the Garden These Are Baby’s Fingers Trot, Trot to London Fingerplays & Action Rhymes (pdf) Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes I Touch Open, Shut Them Rimas Traditionales (pdf) La Araña Pequeñita/The Itsy Bitsy Spider Dos Manitas/Two Little Hands Fray Felipe/Are You Sleeping?

Illustration from WHOSE SHOES? by Anna Grossnickle Hines. Illustration copyright ©2001 by LeUyen Pham.
Used by permission of Harcourt, Inc.