Nursery rhyme words to read, trace, find and write
Make nursery rhyme worksheets for a child who is learning to read. Pick picture and word cards, a read, trace and write page, a word search, or a write the room set with a recording sheet. The 12 nursery rhyme words each come with one of our own crayon pictures. You can also type your own words.
Your worksheet:
These pages help your child learn new words by sight. Your child sees each nursery rhyme word beside its picture, reads it with you, traces it, finds it in a puzzle and writes it.
Humpty Dumpty, wall, lamb, star, spider, mouse, clock, dish, bucket, moon, spoon, cat. Many of these cannot be sounded out by a beginner yet, so each sheet says that a grown-up reads the words first.
Cards to cut apart for matching and sorting. A page to read, trace and write four words at a time. A word search with words across and down only. A write the room set: hang the numbered cards around the room, and your child finds each one and writes its word. They fit a week of nursery rhymes.
Say one rhyme a day and find its cards: Humpty Dumpty and the wall, the star for Twinkle Twinkle, the spider for the itsy bitsy spider, the mouse and the clock for Hickory Dickory Dock, the cat, the moon, the dish and the spoon for Hey Diddle Diddle. Your child holds up the card when its word comes in the rhyme.
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall. Mary had a little lamb. Twinkle, twinkle, little star. The itsy bitsy spider. Hickory, dickory, dock, the mouse ran up the clock. Hey diddle diddle, the cat and the fiddle, the dish ran away with the spoon. Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a bucket of water.
After the rhyme, say the two words that rhyme in it: wall and fall, star and are, dock and clock, spoon and moon. Ask your child to find another word that rhymes. Hearing rhymes is one of the first steps toward reading.
Yes. Learn one a day. Say it together, then find its card. By the end of the week your child will know several.
Rhymes help a child hear the sounds in words, which is an early step toward reading. Saying them together every day is the practice; the cards add the written word.
Some of them, such as the short ones. Most are words to learn with the picture, so read them together first.
Yes. Choose “Type your own words” at the top of the word list. A word we have a picture for gets its picture.
Across and down only, never backward or on a slant. Words of two parts, such as candy cane, are left out of the puzzle.
Yes, with no sign-up and no limit.
No maker matches that yet. Clear the box to see them all.
The packs on this site are free. The One Sheet goes further: one sheet a day, made for your child from what you tell us happened.
See The One Sheet · $9.99 a month
Or try the 10-day plan: Ears First, $19 one timeOr do the free 3-minute check first
