5 Little Ducks Song | Shared Reading | Pocket Chart Poetry | Fingerplay Rhyme

Here's how I use this Sing and Learn resource in my own kindergarten classroom:

Each week, during shared reading, I introduce a new nursery rhyme song or fingerplay using both the chart (projected on the smart board) and the pocket chart pieces. We sing the song repeatedly each day to build fluency, attend to print, and learn many math and literacy skills that are taught through the text.

We use the printable reader and learning mats during both math and reading small groups to practice sight words, phonological awareness, positional words, ordinal numbers, number sense and addition and subtraction.

At the end of the week, the masks, headbands, puppets, or retell props are used to act out the story and we color the song chart to add to our song binders. These binders are used during independent reading for fluency practice and taken home at the end of the year as a kindergarten keepsake of the songs we learned and loved!

Lastly, the pocket chart pieces are placed in a mini pocket chart for children to use independently at a literacy center to continue to build oral language and fluency with the rhyme.

Everything you need for this weekly routine is included in this resource!

Here is what you will find:

• unit plans for teaching through the text (both math and literacy)
• full-color song charts
• black and white song charts for student song binders
• pocket chart pieces (text, background, ducks, Mother Duck)
• Five Little Ducks Reader (Sing & Read for reading small groups)
• Five Little Ducks Reader (Sing & Solve for math small groups)
• retelling masks
• retelling stick puppets or headbands
• folddown retelling prop
• reading mat for phonological awareness
• math mat for number sense
• math mat with equation boxes for addition/subtraction

Here's what you can teach through the text with this resource (unit plans included):

• concepts of print
• phonological awareness
• vocabulary
• language skills
• sight words
• number sense
• positional words
• ordinal numbers
• addition and subtraction

More Sing & Learn Resources:

5 Green and Speckled Frogs

5 Little Monkeys

5 Gingerbread Cookies

One Elephant Went Out to Play

Monkeys and the Alligator (coming soon)

Five Little Pumpkins

Five Little Snowmen (coming soon)

Way up High in the Apple Tree

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