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Mother Goose: One, Two, Buckle My Shoe

Author: Mother Goose

Title: My Best Book of Rhymes: One, Two, Buckle My Shoe

Illustrator: Janet Anne Grahame Johnstone

Publisher: An Award Book

Year: 1984

Format: Hardcover

Genre: Mother Goose

Reading Level: Beginner, Assisted

Interest-Level: Pre-School, Elementary

Topics: Counting, Rhyming, Pattern, Sequence

Summary: This Mother Goose nursery rhyme involves counting, sequence and rhyming. The rhyme scheme is AABBCCDD and so on throughout the little poem.

Extension Activities:

*Have students create a list of words that rhyme with numbers and then have them write a few lines of a poem with the words. Next, have the students draw illustrations to go along with their poem.

*Practice counting, singly, count by twos, threes, fours, etc.