Literature Clubs

Writing Clubs

The Internet has a treasure chest of free stories. You can use nursery rhymes, fables, poems, short stories, bible stories, and classic books available on the Internet to deploy a reading/writing club. These third-party materials can be simple story text, illustrated and animated works, or complete movies with music.

For each lesson, TEARN provides worksheet and game activities. A member supplied link connects the TEARN learning activities to the third-party lesson material.

TEARN has constructed some sample courses. Each is 10 weeks or more of materials for your use.

Writing Using Nursery Rhymes (P-K, G1-3)

• Week 1: Hey Diddle Diddle - Pictorial lesson for simple sentences with subjects, verbs, and objects.
• Week 2: Itsy Bitsy Spider - Narrative writing to review the series of events for the spider.
• Week 3: Farmer in the Dell - Basic sentence construction with subjects, verbs, and objects.
• Week 4: Big Bad Wolf - Introduce descriptive writing with a list of adjectives for the wolf, pig, and child.
• Week 5: Mary Had a Little Lamb - Narrative writing to review the sequence of events for the little lamb.
• Week 6: ABCDEFG - Review the alphabet using words that start with the letter.
• Week 7: It's Raining - Vocabulary drill using verbs from the nursery rhyme.
• Week 8: Puff the Magic Dragon - Basic sentence construction with subjects, verbs, and objects.
• Week 9: Do Re Me - Learning the written form of the musical notes.
• Week 10: Three Blind Mice - Narrative writing to review the series of events for the three blind mice.

For an advanced group, you can add additional rhymes per week.

For each week:

• Read the rhyme to the learners. Discuss the rhyme with emphasis on the lesson focus.
• Have a few children recite the rhyme from memory.
• Ask the entire class recite together.
• Select, print, copy, and distribute 5 or 6 worsheets as required work. Start the worksheets in class and answer any questions from the learners.
• Children can use additional worksheets and online games to reinforce learning during the coming week. Encourage free form writing at any time.
• Briefly review the rhyme in the following week before proceeding with the next rhyme.

- by Aunt Beev (Learning Center)

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