Children deserve to memorize, recite, perform, illustrate, and read memorable language.
Student anthologies are an important part of a successful early literacy program for young children. You can make copies from these copyright secured black-line masters of poems, rhymes, songs, and chants already introduced orally each week to your students. This ongoing collection is then compiled in individual reading anthology notebooks to be read at school and taken home for sharing. There is room on each page for children to provide their own illustrations, thus personalizing the language and providing a satisfying link between language and art. At the end of the year, each child has the gift of their Reading Anthology to keep forever.
These Poems, Rhymes, Action Chants, and Familiar Folk Song sets are printed on sturdy 8 1/2 inch black-line masters with permission to make multiple copies for classroom use. Each anthology includes teaching strategies and a sample "Parents As Partners" letter.
Familiar Folk Songs Anthology ABC Song; Aiken Drum; Are You Sleeping?; Clap Your Hands; Did You Ever See A Lassie?; Fall Is Coming; Go Tell Aunt Rhody; If You’re Happy And You Know It; Jingle Bells; London Bridge; Mary Had A Little Lamb; Mary Wore Her Red Dress; Oh, A-Hunting We Will Go; Paw Paw Patch; Row, Row, Row Your Boat; She’ll Be Comin’ Round the Mountain; Skip To My Lou; Ten Little Children; The Bear Went Over the Mountain; The Farmer In The Dell; The More We Get Together; The Muffin Man; Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star; Where Is Thumbkin?; You Are My Sunshine.
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Child-Lore Anthology Bring back the out-loud culture with this collection of rhymes, tongue-twisters, and the memorable sayings of childhood. Fuzzy Wuzzy; Michael Finnegan; Jelly in the Bowl; If you Ever Meet a Whale; April Showers; Eeny Meeny Miny Mo; How Much Wood Would a Wood Chuck Chuck?; Ice Cream; A Peanut Sat on a Railroad Track; Betty Botter; Pete and Repeat; K Mart; Ladies and Gentlemen; Red Sky; Colors; Billy, Billy, Strong and Able; Railroad Crossing; One for the Money; Mother Dear; A Horse and a Flea.
