Reading Notes: Nursery Rhymes A


Babes in the Wood

  • AABACC
  • Kids kidnapped to the woods
  • The kids died
  • the moon didn't shine that night
  • Robins brought Strawberry-leaves and spread them over

Crooked Man
  • Moral: if you are a crooked person then everything you do will be crooked

Simple Simon
  • Wanted pie from pie man but didn't have a penny
  • he wanted to catch a whale but the water he had was his mothers pail
  • ABAB
Needles and Pins
  • NEEDLES and pins, needles and pins.
  • When a man marries, his trouble begins.
Sneezing on days
  • Monday = for danger
  • Tuesday = kiss a stranger
  • Wed = for a letter
  • Thursday = something better
  • Friday = for sorrow
  • Saturday = see your sweetheart tomorrow
Story source: This story is part of the Nursery Rhymes unit. Story source: The Nursery Rhyme Book edited by Andrew Lang and illustrated by L. Leslie Brooke (1897).

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