I have been working with my kindergarten students with gaining concept of word. This is something that our current reading program lacks, and it is heavily assessed throughout the year. This past week we worked on using the song "Jingle Bells" for concept of word practice. They used bingo markers to put marks under the words in the poem.
After doing that, we counted the words in each line and went back and read the poem, while they pointed to the dots as we said each word.
After reading through the poem, they then looked for various letters in the poem and marked them.
They really had fun with this and can't wait for the next poem.
This week with my older students, we are going to work on reading Christmas songs and not singing them. This helps with fluency practice since the students have to attend to the words and think about what they are reading.
I am going to use my Fluency with Christmas Carols with them to help them with this. We will READ the songs. Then they can fill in the blanks with words from the songs to practice. You can grab this freebie by clicking {here} or on the picture below.
How do you use holiday songs in your classroom?
Love the idea of using Christmas carols to practice concept of word and fluency...how fun!
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