Listening, Laughing, and
Learning
DR. MARY BIGLER EASTERN MICHIGAN
UNIVERSITY [email protected]
February 8, 2013
WSRA Convention
Books to Develop Listening Skills
JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS K-5 Super Knock-Knocks, Keller NOVELTY BOOKS K-12 Tongue Twisters, Rosenbloom 3-8 Quick-to-solve Brainteasers, Fernandez PICTURE BOOKS PK-3 Itsy Bitsy Spider, Trapini PK-3 How Much is that Doggie in the Window? Merrill K-3 I Ain’t Gonna Paint No More, Beaumont PK-3 My First Songs, de Paola POETY PK-5 In the Land of Words, Greenfield NON-FICTION 2-8 Even More Children’s Miscellany, Macdonald 2-8 Lifetimes, Rice RESOURCE BOOKS Mary Bigler’s Lessons Learned, Bigler These books may be ordered online at www.readingsuccesscenter.com. 2/8/13 1
TEN WAYS TO READ A POEM ALOUD
Pizza Treatsa
I love to eat a chewy pizza Standing up or in a seatsa.
A neatsa pizza can’t be beatsa. Eat it with your hands or feetsa.
Doug Florian
1. Teacher reads to the students 2. Cloze technique 3. Alternate line reading 4. Unison 5. Soft to loud/loud to soft
6. Fast to slow/slow to fast 7. Clapping to rhythm 8. Assign parts to individuals/groups 9. As a round 10. Singing (Twinkle, Twinkle)
DIFFERENT VOICES
Hundreds of cats! Thousands of cats!
Millions and billions and trillions of cats! Wanda Gag’s Millions of Cats
Regular voice Excited voice Clap and say Whisper voice
Telephone operator voice Underwater voice No voice Opera voice
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SONGS WITH FAMILIAR TUNES
Weather Song (Sung to The Bear Went Over the Mountain) What’s the weather today? ‘’ ‘’ Let’s all go look and see. Will it be sunny or cloudy? Will it be rainy or snowy? Will it be warm or cold? What’s the weather today?
The Vowel Song (Sung to Bingo) The vowels of the alphabet, I know them all by name, oh! A-‐E-‐I-‐O-‐U A-‐E-‐I-‐O-‐U A-‐E-‐I-‐O-‐U I know them all by name, oh!
Birthday Song (Sung to Camptown Races) Our friend _____ is _____ years old, do da, do da Our friend _____ is _____ years old, oh my do da day Let’s all shout “Hooray,” for it’s_____’s special day Our friend _____ is _____ years old, oh my do da day. Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes (Sung to London Bridge) Head and shoulders, knees and toes, knees and toes, knees and toes, Head and shoulders, knees and toes, it’s my body. Eyes and ears and mouth and nose, mouth and nose, mouth and nose, Eyes and ears and mouth and nose, it’s my body. Ankles, elbows, feet and seat, feet and seat, feet and seat, Ankles, elbows, feet and seat, it’s my body.
ACTION CHANTS NAME CHANT Mar y X is my name. X X X Read ing X is my game. X X X Mich i gan X is where I come from X X that’s the way, uh-huh uh-huh, I like it, uh-huh uh huh That’s the way, uh-huh uh-huh, I like it! X BIG MAC Big Mac, filet of fish, quarter pounder, French fries. Icy Coke, thick shake, sundaes and apple pie. Chicken McNuggets, bluck-bluck, bluck-bluck-bluck-bluck. Chicken McNuggets, bluck-bluck, bluck-bluck-bluck-bluck. Ee-i-ee-i-o!, Ee-i-ee-i-o!, Ee-i-ee-i-o! Pizza Hut Pizza Hut, Pizza Hut Kentucky Fried Chicken and a Pizza Hut (REPEAT) McDonald’s, McDonald’s Kentucky Fried Chicken and a Pizza Hut (REPEAT) Burger King, Burger King Long John Silver and a Burger King (REPEAT) McDonald’s, McDonald’s Kentucky Fried Chicken and a Pizza Hut (REPEAT) Dairy Queen, Dairy Queen Taco Bell and a Dairy Queen(REPEAT) McDonald’s, McDonald’s Kentucky Fried Chicken and a Pizza Hut (REPEAT) 4
Sandwiches
Bacon, Lettuce, Tomato Sandwich (Tune: Old MacDonald) Bacon, lettuce, to-‐ma-‐to Yum Yum Yum Yum Yum. I like it toasted, just a touch Yum Yum Yum Yum Yum. With a crunch crunch here And a munch munch there Here a crunch, there a munch Everywhere a crunch, munch. Bacon, lettuce, to-‐ma-‐to Yum Yum Yum Yum Yum! SMACK!
Silly Sandwich (Tune: The More We Get Together) Have you ever seen a sandwich, a sandwich, a sandwich Have you ever seen a sandwich As silly as can be. With gumdrops and pizza and oranges and waffles
Have you ever seen a sandwich That’s made by silly me!
Apple Sandwiches (Tune: Alphabet Song) Apple sandwiches, what a treat They’re so good, they can’t be beat Macintosh, Delicious too, Jonathon, Spy, add lots of goo, Apple sandwiches, what a treat They’re so good, they can’t be beat.
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Steps to Writing a Rap
Step 1 Choose a topic Step 2 List a lot of words about the topic Step 3 Choose the ones you want to use Step 4 Think of rhyming words for them Step 5 Set a beat Step 6 Write a poem using the words Step 1 Teddy Bears Step 2 fun, bear, fat, friend, light, cuddly, cute, love, small, everywhere, brown, worn Step 3 fun, bear, fat, friend, light, small Step 4 fun - done, one, sun bear - there, everywhere, hair fat – at, hat, that, flat friend – end, send, lend light – night, tight small – tall, all, doll Step 5 snap fingers twice, clap once Step 6 My good friend is a teddy bear I can take him everywhere. He’s small, fat and lots of fun He plays with me ‘til the day is done. Teddy bears, teddy bears big and small I love teddy bears one and all. Fat ones, skinny ones Old ones too. I hope you have a teddy bear Just for you. Done by Jasmine, Casey and Jenny P.