Once the kids know a song by heart you can do so much with the text! We put our songs on sentence strips and cut them up and put them back together, or mix up key words or use spoonerisms or cloze to draw their attention to word parts. You can vary the difficulty depending on how well they know the poem or song and how ready they are to deal with particular aspects of the text. When they have truly memorized it, you can really focus in on the text and offer increasing challenges. Some examples:
Cut up the text on sentence strips and pass out key words (and eventually all the words) and rebuild together (or eventually they can work on their own or in pairs): Twinkle, ________. little _______ How ___ wonder ________ you are. (Kids are holding missing words and together examining text and rebuilding. You can swap entire lines as well and read them out of order and have the kids fix your mistakes: "How I wonder what you are, twinkle twinkle little star") Spoonerism: Linkle, Linkle twittle star... (swap beginning chunks to draw attention to the initial letter sounds.) Cloze: Twinkle, tw_______, little st___ How I w_____ what you are. (Kids predict missing words by examining initial sounds.) Little kids LOVE these. They feel like the most brilliant beings on Earth (which of course they are!) If this is all new to you (someone asked "Who is Don Holdaway?" earlier), consider this tiny book by Bobbi Fisher and her daughter, Emily Fisher Medvic: Perspectives on Shared Reading. It's packed full of these sorts of ideas and offers a guide for planning. I don't think memorization is a problem, really, it's a support, which provides us the opportunity to challenge them to work with the text (not ignore it!) Our challenge is to find creative ways to draw the kids attention to the text in strategic ways, which support what we'd like them to learn. Heather On Jun 24, 2007, at 9:38 PM, RASINSKI, TIMOTHY wrote: > I agree that the kids memorizing the words is a problem with songs, > poetry, and predictable books. I find I need to remind children > to keep their eyes on the words. Also, pulling words from the > text out of context and on a word wall draws their attention to the > words. And, finding other versions of the same melody, ones > with different words is also a way to force their attention back to > the words in the text. Does anyone have other ideas for dealing > with this valid concern? > > tr > > > Timothy Rasinski > 404 White Hall > Kent State University > Kent, OH 44242 > 330-672-0649 > Cell -- 330-962-6251 > FAX 330-672-2025 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > informational website: www.timrasinski.com > professional development DVD: http://www.roadtocomprehension.com/ > <https://exchange.kent.edu/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http:// > www.roadtocomprehension.com/> > > ________________________________ > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sun 6/24/2007 7:57 PM > To: Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group > Subject: [MOSAIC] reading songs > > > > Tim I have a question about having my kids reread songs we have > learned. I > would teach them a song and then they would each get a copy for their > poetry/song folder. During these repeated reading times as I would > observe > them it seemed that most of them were not reading the text, but simply > singing. (They LOVED the singing!!) This happened in shared > reading as > well as in partner reading. How can I guarantee that they are > reading the > words each time? Especially when they "know" the words. > Ginger > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mosaic mailing list > Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org > To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to > http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/ > mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. > > Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mosaic mailing list > Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org > To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to > http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/ > mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. > > Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive. > _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive.
