Explore the “Little Miss Muffet” Nursery Rhyme

Nursery rhymes are excellent tools for teaching rhyme and rhythm to young learners. Their recognisable sound patterns support phonological awareness and their brevity and simplicity make them easy for young students to recite. Their content is usually fun and playful, which makes them even more appealing to children.

Use this simple one-page “Little Miss Muffet” poster to introduce concepts such as rhythm, rhyme and syllabification to your students. It displays the complete rhyme in a child-friendly font, making it accessible for early readers to follow along. It also uses underlining to denote the rhyming pairs, e.g. Muffet/tuffet, whey/away.

Teach Rhyming Words with “Little Miss Muffet”

This poster makes a great teaching aid when it comes to teaching your youngest students about rhyming pairs. Here’s some advice as to how you might use it in a lesson:

1. Read the “Little Miss Muffet” nursery rhyme aloud to the class.
2. Identify all the rhyming pairs, e.g. Muffet/tuffet, whey/away, spider/her. 
3. Choose one of the sets of rhyming pairs. 
4. Brainstorm additional words that belong to this word family.

You can also use this poster to explore other aspects of phonological awareness, such as onset and rime, syllabification and letter-sound correspondence.

Download These “Little Miss Muffet” Lyrics

Use the Download button to access the easy-print colour PDF.

Project the poster on your interactive whiteboard or print it for your classroom display board. If you intend to display the poster, we recommend enlarging it for enhanced readability.

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