The following songs are from Jack Hartmann's Rocking' Reading Songs Album and are designed to further enhance your curriculum-based teaching with music and movement.
Some are soundtracks only, but most are open-ended versions of the songs on the original album so you & your children can place in new rhyming words, word families, beginning sounds, names of foods, etc. They are the same songs, but with the key learning words (blank) so you and your class can create new words, movements and activities.
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1. Good Day
(Students can generate their own responses for ways to make it a good day)
2. Exercising Alphabet
(Students can substitute their own dances and moments)
3. Act Out the Alphabet
(Generate your own action words for each letter as you act out the alphabet).
4.Vowel Sound Hound Dogs Long Initial
(Uses a long vowel action word and a work beginning with a long vowel sound).
5.Vowel Sound Hound Dogs Long Medial
(Uses a long vowel sound as the medial vowel sound for students to act out the
actions of the long medial vowel sound action words)
6.Vowel Sound Hound Dogs Long Open
(Has an open ended version of the medial long vowel sound for students to
generate their own word with the corresponding long medial vowel sound.
7.Vowel Sound Hound Dogs Short Open
(Has an open ended version of the medial short vowel sound for students to
generate their own word with the corresponding medial short vowel sound)
8. Clap, Stomp & Chomp (Syllable Song for generating you own words for students
to syllabify)
9.Onomatopoeia Alphabet(This open ended version is for generating your own
onomatopoeia words for students to act out)
10. Reading Rocks
(Students to supply their own favorite characters from books they have read or are
reading)
11.Exercise to the Beginning Letter Sounds
(Students listen for the same beginning sounds in this open ended version. If the
words are the same beginning sounds they will exercise - different beginning
sounds they will sound freeze)
12. Exercise When We Rhyme
(Allows for teacher or student to generate rhyming or non-rhyming words)
13.Rock Out Tooty Ta
(Allows for substituting the onset letter in the chorus to another onset letter to
change the chorus)
14.Reading Question Song
(Allows for generating new reading questions for students)
15. Compound Word Workout
(Substitute your own list of compound or non-compound words)
16. Leroy the Letter Eating Lion
(Choose a letter for Leroy and he can only eat foods that begin with the letter you
choose)
17.Rules of Reading
(Can be used for reinforcing the reading rules and strategies you class is currently
working on)
18.Let Your Body Be a Punctuation Mark
(Let you body be a period, question mark, exclamation point, comma, etc with
actions)
19. Workout with a Family of Words
(Allows for using three groups of word families as students work out and follow the
movements for the beginning sound, the word family and the word)
20.Punctuation Power
(Rap out this song on your own)
21. Teeka Turtle's Tooty Ta
(Techno pop version for students to sing and dance)
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