Reading Notes: Nursery Rhymes B


Diddle, Diddle

  • Son John went to bed with shorts on and one shoe left on
  • AAAA
Cock-a-doodle-doo
  • AABA
  • lost her shoe
  • master lost his fiddling stick
  • his dame will have to dance without her shoe
  • Master found his fiddling stick but she never found her shoe
Hey Diddle Diddle
  • Cow jumped over the moon
  • little dog laughed
  • the dish ran after the spoon
Jack and Jill
  • went up the hill for a pail of water
  • jack fell downa nd cracked his head
  • jill came tumbling after


Jack and Jill fell down the Hill
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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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