This song is also available on Jack Hartmann's album Shake, Rattle n' Read.
Focus: Print awareness and left to right progression
Activity – Children can follow the movements – left to right with their hands and then their whole bodies. Have fun moving – then follow up with a big book and showing them – That’s the Way We Read.
Hey kids, follow me
Move your hands the way that we read
Left to right then sweep back and down
Left to right then sweep back and down
That’s the way we read
Rhymes and books and magazines
Move your body the way that we read
Left to right then sweep back and down
Left to right then sweep back and down
Left to right then sweep back and down
That’s the way we read
All together
Left to right then sweep back and down
Left to right then sweep back and down
Left to right then sweep back and down
That’s the way we read
That’s the way we read
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Many thanks to Jack Hartmann for permission to display these lyrics.
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