Nursery rhymes are the beginning of a child's journey with literacy. These fun, interactive, reading and writing lessons give your beginning readers a head start! Nursery rhymes are a timeless way to make reading enjoyable for young children. Now, children can listen to, act out, and recite favorite nursery rhymes while learning about rhyming words, building sight vocabulary, and practicing phonics skills. Integrate Readers' Theatre and excitement into your lessons to culminate the rhymes. Reinforce developing skills and understanding with handouts that accompany each lesson. Also provided are interactive plays and Readers' Theatre Scripts that include all the vocabulary presented in the book. Book jacket.