7. Tweet Tweet Little Birdy
Benefits: Vocalization, listening comprehension, pretending/abstracting.
Older children can immediately echo each phrase during the short pause. This helps to develop sentence length and related memory.
Other Uses: Try having the children take turns singing into a (toy) microphone. Everybody joins in for the chorus. Here is an example: CD: “The birdy sings.” Child(ren:) “The birdy sings.” She shakes her wings- “she shakes