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Jack Be Nimble Nursery Rhyme - Poster and Cut-Out Pages
A poetry activity using the nursery rhyme “Jack Be Nimble”.
Use this poster and cut-out activity when learning about rhythms and sounds patterns in short rhymes.
The download includes a full rhyme page, large print pages, large print sentence/line cut-out pages, and large print word cut-out pages.
Print the sentence and word cards out on cardstock for added durability. Cut out the sentence and word cards. Students can put them in the correct order to recreate the rhyme.
Common Core Curriculum alignment
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.K.5
Recognize common types of texts (e.g., storybooks, poems).
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.K.1.C
Understand that words are separated by spaces in print.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.K.2.A
Recognize and produce rhyming words.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.K.3.C
Read common high-frequency words by sight (e.g., the, of, to, you, she, my, is, are, do, does).

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