Mrs. Jones - Songs That Help Teach Words

Piggyback Songs That Help Teach Words

1. Tune: If You're Happy and You Know It
If you think you know this word raise your hand
If you think you know this word raise your hand
If you think you know this word, that you just heard,
If you think you know this word raise your hand.
(supply a word stretching it out ex: c-a-t)

2. Tune: Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star
Listen, listen to my word
Tell me all the sounds you heard: /cat/
(say this slowly and wait a moment)
/c/ is one sound, /a/ is two
/t/ is last in /cat/ it's true!
(at the end sing):
Thanks for listening to my words
and telling me the sounds you heard!

3. Tune: Jimmy Cracked Corn and I Don't Care
Who has a /d/ word to share with us?
Who has a /d/ word to share with us?
Who has a /d/ word to share with us?
It must start with the /d/ sound!

(call on children to supply word and class sings this together)
Dog is a word that starts with /d/
Dog is a word that starts with /d/
Dog is a word that starts with /d/
Dog starts with the /d/ sound.

4. Tune: Old MacDonald Had a Farm
What's the sound that starts these words:
Turtle, time, and teeth?
(wait for a response from the children)

/t/ is the sound that starts these words:
turtle, time, and teeth.
With a /t/, /t/ here, and a /t/, /t/ there,
Here a /t/, there a /t/, everywhere a /t/, /t/.
/t/ is the sound that starts these words:
Turtle, time, and teeth!
You all did great now clap your hands!
(clap, clap, clap, clap, clap)

-you can use beginning sounds, medial sounds, or final sounds

5. Rhyming Song - Tune: Skip to my Lou
Silly Willy, who should I choose?
Silly Willy, who should I choose?
Silly Willy, who should I choose?
I choose_____________________.(Terry, berry)
-continue the song using students names

6. Rhyming - Tune: Have You Ever Seen a Lassie
Did you ever see a cat, a cat, a cat,
Did you ever see a cat sit on a rat?
r-at, c-at
r-at, c-at,
Did you ever see a cat sit on a rat?
-repeat the verse using other animal rhyming words

7. Tune: If You're Happy and You Know It
If your name begins with /m/, stand up,
If your name begins with /m/, stand up,
If your name begins with /m/, stand up and take a bow,
If your name begins with /m/, stand up.

-you can also use this with pictures
"If your picture begins with /s/, stand up", etc.

8. Tune: A Hunting We Will Go
A searching we will go, a searching we will go,
We'll find a /h/ and add a /orse/,
And now we have a horse!

9. Chant
It begins with /t/,
And it ends with /im/.
Put them together,
And they say _______. (Tim)

10. Tune: The Wheels on the Bus
The sounds in the word go /c/ /a/ /t/; /c/ /a/ /t/; /c/ /a/ /t/.
The sounds in the word go /c/ /a/ /t/,
Can you guess the word?