What Does Character Mean? Kindergarten Nursery Rhyme Lesson Plans

Are you a kindergarten teacher struggling to find engaging and practical resources to help your early readers learn about characters in a story? Look no further! We are excited to introduce our newest resource: the Characters in Humpty Dumpty Teaching Slide Deck.

This interactive and visually-appealing slide show is designed to help young students identify and understand characters in the beloved nursery rhyme, “Humpty Dumpty.” The slide show includes colorful illustrations and interactions that bring the story to life and interactive exercises and activities encouraging students to actively engage with the characters and identify them as people, animals, or things.

The main focus of this slide show is to teach children to differentiate characters from non-characters in Humpty Dumpty and other texts.

Students will love reading the nursery rhyme and interacting with the slides to drag, drop, and sort characters and non-characters in fictional texts. What a fun way to learn the features of print!

This resource pairs perfectly with our other Humpty Dumpty reading resources

• Humpty Dumpty Worksheet Pack
• Humpty Dumpty Read and Retell Pocket Chart Cards

Tips for Differentiation + Scaffolding 

A team of dedicated, experienced educators created this resource to support your reading lessons. 

In addition to individual student work time, use this nursery rhyme resource to enhance learning through guided reading groups, whole class lessons, or remote learning assignments. 

If you have a mixture of above and below-level learners, check out these suggestions for keeping students on track with the concepts: 

🆘 Support Struggling Students

Help students who need help understanding the concepts by 

• Pre-teach vocabulary before the initial sorting activities using other rhymes or stories.

Additionally, provide access to previous assignments, posters, and anchor charts for students to recall past lessons.

➕ Challenge Fast Finishers

• Encourage fast finishers to summarize the rhyme by drawing a picture of the main character, the setting, and the significant events.

Easily Prepare This Resource for Your Students

Use the dropdown icon on the Download button to download the Google Slides version of this resource.

This resource was created by Samantha Rose, a teacher in Florida and Teach Starter Collaborator.