Nursery Rhymes Retell and Sequence Foundation Unit
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About this unit
Teach nursery-rhyme comprehension through a clear sequence of listening, discussion, picture ordering, retelling, rhyme, rhythm and performance. This Foundation English unit helps children identify characters and important events, order ideas, use first-next-then-finally language and explain a rhyme's beginning, middle and ending.
The editable presentation introduces nursery-rhyme features and models useful comprehension language. Print-friendly worksheets develop event sequencing, rhyme matching, cloze completion, beginning-middle-end retells, comparison and oral-performance planning. Colour action cards, puppets, picture cards and sequencing mats provide practical partner, small-group and literacy-centre learning.
Assessment uses an original Tilly Turtle rhyme to check rhyme recognition and event order, followed by a retell-and-perform task and five-level rubric. Eight matching red-answer pages support efficient checking of fixed-response work.
What's included
30-page unit plan PDF
Editable 18-slide Nursery Rhymes - Retell, Sequencing and Comprehension presentation
Editable 22-slide Nursery Rhymes quiz with 10 question-and-answer pairs
Hear the Beat, Follow the Story classroom display
Rhyme Sequence Practice for Humpty Dumpty, Incy Wincy Spider and Jack and Jill
Rhyme and Rhythm Practice - Match the Rhyming Pictures and Find the Rhyme
Complete the Rhyme - Baa, Baa, Black Sheep and Hickory Dickory Dock
My Nursery Rhyme Retell - Beginning, Middle, End
My Nursery Rhyme Retell - Characters, Setting and Events
Compare Two Nursery Rhymes worksheet
Plan a Nursery Rhyme Performance worksheet
Rhythm and Role-Play Pack with action cards, character puppets and prop puppets
Story Steps Sequencing Game with picture cards and sequencing mats
Tilly Turtle's Rainy-Day Rhyme assessment
Retell and Perform assessment
Eight red-answer pages
Nursery Rhymes Retell, Sequencing and Comprehension Rubric with five performance levels
Learning focus
Identify characters and important events
Sequence events and retell them in a sensible order
Use first, next, then and finally language
Recognise rhyming words, repeated sound patterns and steady beat
Compare characters, events and sounds across two rhymes
Perform a nursery rhyme using clear voice, rhythm, actions and expression
Demonstrate comprehension through oral responses, drawing, writing and assessment
Classroom use
Use the presentation for whole-class modelling, the display as an ongoing visual reference, the worksheets for guided or independent practice, and the colour cards, puppets and sequencing mats for literacy centres and partner work. The assessment and rubric can be used at the end of the sequence or collected across the week. Suggested duration is one school week, with reusable resources for ongoing oral-language and comprehension revision.
Year, subject and topic
Year level: Foundation / Kindergarten
Subject: English
Topic: Nursery rhymes, sequencing, retelling, comprehension, rhyme, rhythm and oral language
Curriculum alignment
Australian Curriculum v9.0
AC9EFLE03; AC9EFLE04
Australian Curriculum v8.4
ACELT1578; ACELT1785; ACELT1579
Victorian Curriculum 2.0
VC2EFLE03; VC2EFLE04
NSW Curriculum
ENE-UARL-01; ENE-PHOAW-01
Western Australian Curriculum
WAPELIEX1; WAPELAT2; WAPELIEX2
Common Core State Standards
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.K.2; CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.K.3; CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.K.5; CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.K.9; CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.K.2; CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.K.2.a; CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.K.10; CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.K.5.d
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills
TEKS-ELAR-GK-7; TEKS-ELAR-GK-7A; TEKS-ELAR-GK-7B; TEKS-ELAR-GK-7C; TEKS-ELAR-GK-7D; TEKS-ELAR-GK-8; TEKS-ELAR-GK-8A; TEKS-ELAR-GK-8C; TEKS-ELAR-GK-9; TEKS-ELAR-GK-3C; TEKS-ELAR-GK-8B
Ontario Language Curriculum
CAN-G1-LANG-C1.1; CAN-G1-LANG-C1.2; CAN-G1-LANG-B1.5; CAN-G1-LANG-B3.1
England National Curriculum
UK-KS1-Y1-ENG-R-C; UK-KS1-Y1-ENG-SPK
New Zealand Curriculum
NZ-Y0-ENG-R-C-TFG-1; NZ-Y1-ENG-R-C-TFG-1; NZ-Y0-ENG-R-C-TSSF-1; NZ-Y1-ENG-R-C-TSSF-1; NZ-Y0-ENG-R-C-SDC-1; NZ-Y1-ENG-R-C-SDC-1; NZ-Y0-ENG-OL-CII-PTO-1; NZ-Y1-ENG-OL-CII-PTO-1
Formats, page counts and answers
Total: 70 pages/slides
Unit plan: 30 pages
Presentation: 18 slides
Quiz: 22 slides
Answer key: Included with eight red-answer pages and a five-level rubric
Teacher benefits
A complete teaching, practice, activity and assessment sequence
Editable native PowerPoint presentation and quiz
Print-friendly student pages with matching red-answer references
Colour role-play and sequencing resources for active learning
An original assessment rhyme that measures transferable comprehension
A five-level rubric for sequencing, retelling, rhythm/rhyme and oral participation
Digital product and licence
This is a digital product; no physical item is shipped. Purchase permits use by the purchasing teacher/classroom under Sukindi's licence terms. Files may not be resold, shared publicly, redistributed or uploaded to an unrestricted shared drive.
