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The Completed Hickory Dickory Dockby Jim Aylesworth |
- Before sharing Aylesworth's The Completed Hickory Dickory Dock
make sure the listeners are totally familiar with the traditional
versions of the Mother Goose Rhymes. In addition to the many books
containing Mother Goose Rhymes try these WWW sites.
- Rebus Rhymes, Mother Goose and Others. Scroll down and you will be able to click on several links to rebus rhymes. "Hickory Dickory Dock" can be accessed directly at the Hickory Dickory Dock page.
- Mother Goose Society: Finger plays, recipes, and more. Much information for you to share with young readers.
- If you need the basic text of many other nursery rhymes go to the Zelo Nursery Rhymes page. The rhymes can be used as beginning of some innovations on the nursery rhymes. (See below)
- Visit The Mother Goose Pages which provide a master list, recommended books to read, and tips on how to share rhymes with children.
- After sharing the traditional nursery rhymes, read and enjoy the innovation on "Hickory Dickory Dock" in Aylesworth's The Completed Hickory Dickory Dock..
- Use these favorite rhymes as the stepping stone to
creating some innovations on the selected rhymes. Write some as a
class/group, then allow individuals to try creating their own variant
rhymes. (Read also Keith Baker's Hickory Dickory Dock (2008); compare parodies on the rhyme.
- Draw an illustration of the selected nursery rhyme, either the traditional or the fractured version. Create a nursery rhyme gallery with the fractured or traditional text.
Aylesworth, Jim. The Completed Hickory Dickory Dock. Illustrated by Eileen Christelow. Atheneum, 1990. 32 pages. ISBN: 0689316062 o.p.; Aladdin, 1994, ISBN 0689718624 (paperback).
©2000 Jim Aylesworth -- All Rights Reserved.
Text for Classroom Connections section © 2000 Sharron McElmeel @ McBookwords.
Portions of this text may have been published in earlier publications and are reprinted here with permission.