Reading Notes: Nursery Rhymes (Part A)

English Nursery Rhymes

The Nursery Rhyme Book by Andrew Lang

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Reading Notes A:

-Tales

-Proverbs

-Songs, Part 1 and 2

-Riddles

-Paradoxes

-Charms and Lullabies

-Games

Humpty Dumpty: a Riddle

Tales:

-seem to tell a story more than a lesson

-lots of repetition

-”head, head, head”

-”make, make, make”

Proverbs:

-confusing

-do not make a lot of sense to me

-also quite repetitive

Songs:

-very rhythmic

-lengthier than previous (proverbs and tales)

-Interesting: I knew “Polly put the kettle on” growing up but we always spoke it, never sang

-many of these are also popular in the United States

Riddles:

-I liked these but many did not make sense

-Humpty Dumpty: one of my favorites as a child

Paradoxes:

-I love reading these because they make your mind scramble

-used to babysit some children with a book of these that they always wanted to read and I could never get them right on the first try!

-kind of like tongue twisters

Charms and Lullabies:

-even more like tongue twisters

-”Peter picked”... one I used to say as a child

-some of these were used by my kindergarten teacher to teach kids how to properly speak/help with lisps

Games:

-never realized “Jack Be Nimble” was a game

-some of these are really fun! Very entertaining