Evan-Moor Literature Pockets - Nursery Rhymes

by Robin
(Florida)

Product: Evan-Moor Literature Pockets - Nursery Rhymes
Subject: Language Arts
Level: K-1
Dates Used: Sept. 2009

Likes: The "Nursery Rhymes" literature pocket is the first Evan-Moor "pocket" product I have used. I am giving it 10 stars on a scale of 1-10.

I have two boys ages 4 & 5 and we used it during the first two weeks of school. It was the last thing we did each day and my boys couldn't wait to get to it. The product features 12 common nursery rhymes such as "Little Miss Muffet", "Rub-a-Dub-Dub", "Jack and Jill", and "Sing a Song of Six Pence". Each pocket includes the poem as well as supplemental crafts and activities to go-along with the rhyme. Many of the pockets included puppets which were my boys' favorites for reenacting the rhymes.

This is a great hands-on way to build phonemic awareness. Research shows that nursery rhymes are an important means of building pre-reading skills with children. This is the perfect means of doing so. As a former Reading Recovery teacher, I would HIGHLY recommend this product!!!

Dislikes: The only complaint that I have with this product is the way that the publisher suggests that you construct the pockets from construction paper. This method makes the pockets very flimsy. I took the suggestion from Ami on homeschoolshare.com to use pocket folders without the page insert. I hole-punched them taking care to leave room for the pages to still slip in and used metal rings to hold the pockets together. It took 6 folders and I used one inch rings. This made for a sturdy book to hold the wonderful assortment of nursery rhyme activities that are revisited again and again.