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My daughter still loves nursery rhymes, like Pat-A-Cake. And, she’s learning to read this year. So, I’ve been putting together activities and printables for her related to phonics, rhyming, syllables, and word families.
My latest idea was to make story sequencing cards featuring nursery rhymes, so we could recite the rhymes and play with nursery rhyme sequencing and retelling. And, I decided to add a fun pop-up element to it.
Why Teach Story Sequencing?
Story sequencing is when children identify the parts of a story, the beginning, middle, and end. It is also the retelling of events in order of how they happen, first, last, etc.
Sequencing works on skills like:
Reading Comprehension – Helping children to understand what they read is an important skill to practice and story sequencing helps with that.
Learning Ordinal Numbers – Ordering the story pieces in these pop-up cards helps children to think about what comes first, second, and so forth.
Attention to Detail – For instance, in this particular story sequencing activity most of the cards focus on the line in the rhyme that says, “Pat it, prick it, and mark it with a B.”
Your child will have to put them in the correct order as they recite or read the rhyme.
Problem-Solving – Sequencing activities allow children a chance to practice problem-solving as they place the cards in the right order.
Pat-A-Cake Sequencing
I started this series of nursery rhyme pop-up cards with Mary, Mary Quite Contrary.
And, I recently had a request to make the pat-a-cake rhyme card next. This one is especially fun because kids love the hand motions that go along with the lyrics.
There are several other versions of this rhyme with different wording or order for the lyrics. I believe the rhyme I learned as a child included ‘roll it’ and excluded the ‘prick it’ part. But, for this activity, I went with the version that best matched the images I was using.
This is the version of the rhyme I used in the sequencing activity:
Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, baker’s man.
Bake me a cake as fast as you can;
Pat it and prick it and mark it with B,
Put it in the oven for baby and me.
So, teach your child the version you like and use the version above to accurately arrange the image cards for this activity.
To start the activity, cut out the story pieces and have your child place them in the correct order.
Pat-A-Cake Pop-Up Sequencing Card Assembly
1. Print out the story card and pieces (this is the printer I use).
I print on cardstock to make the card study enough to sit on the table.
2. Fold the story card in half on the dotted line. Making sure that the writing is on the outside.
3. Cut along each set of solid black lines in the middle of the card.
4. Fold the card back the opposite way, so the writing is now on the inside.
5. Open the card back up and pop out the cut portions.
6. Cut out and attach story sequencing pictures to the bottom half of the popped out portion using tape or a glue stick. If you choose to use a glue stick make sure to put glue on just the pop-out sections and not the card itself. Otherwise, the extra glue on the cards may stick to the card and keep it from opening and closing properly.
The card only takes a few minutes to assemble. And, once it’s done your child will have a sweet pop-up nursery rhyme card featuring the Pat-A-Cake nursery rhyme!
Sequencing Pop-Up Card Series
If you like this activity, don’t forget to check out the others in this series:
Mary, Mary Quite Contrary Pop-Up sequencing cards
Little Bo Peep Pop-Up Cards
And, be sure to grab your Pat-A-Cake sequencing cards below!
Pat-A-Cake Nursery Rhyme Sequencing Cards
This free Pat-A-Cake sequencing activity includes:
- Story Sequencing Cards
- Story Pieces
- Full-color version
- Black & white version for coloring and low-ink printing
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