Nursery Rhyme Fun!
A Grade 3 ELA worksheet focusing on identifying elements, understanding themes, and creative writing inspired by nursery rhymes.
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Nursery Rhyme Fun!
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Read each question carefully and answer to the best of your ability. Some questions will ask you to read a nursery rhyme and then answer questions about it. Other questions will ask you to be creative!
Read the following nursery rhyme:
Twinkle, twinkle, little star, How I wonder what you are. Up above the world so high, Like a diamond in the sky. Twinkle, twinkle, little star, How I wonder what you are.
1. What does the speaker compare the little star to?
a flashlight
a diamond
a moon
a firefly
2. In 'Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star', the star is described as being above the world.
3. The word that rhymes with 'star' in the rhyme is .
4. What do you think the speaker wonders about the star?
Read the following nursery rhyme:
Mary had a little lamb, Its fleece was white as snow; And everywhere that Mary went, The lamb was sure to go. It followed her to school one day, That was against the rule; It made the children laugh and play, To see a lamb at school.
5. Mary's lamb had black fleece.
True
False
6. Imagine if Mary took her lamb somewhere else it wasn't allowed. Write a short paragraph about what happened.
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