firsthand: Sing a Song of Poetry (Grade 1) by Gay Su Pinnell and Irene C. Fountas



	Introduction
	Table of Contents
	Fifty Ways to Use Poems
	Poetry Links to Phonics Lessons
	Sample Poems

Sing a Song of Poetry (Grade 1)
Table of Contents

Introduction

The Elements of Poetry 3
Rhyme
Rhythm
Figurative Language
Language Patterns
Repetition
Sensory Images

Selecting Poetry for Young Children 7

Planning for Teaching Opportunities When Revisiting a Text 9-10
Word Analysis Teaching Opportunities When Revisiting Poetry

Tools for Using Poetry 12
Instructional Contexts for Poetry 13-15
Interactive Read-Aloud
Shared Reading
Choral Reading and Performance
Independent Reading
Writing Poetry

Types of Poetry 16-21
Nursery Rhymes
Rhymed Verse
Free Verse (Unrhymed)
Word Play
Humorous Verse
Songs
Action Songs and Poems
Concept Poems

Fifty Ways to Use Poems—Plus! 23

Poetry Links to Phonics Lessons 28

Poems

	1, 2, 3
A	A-hunting We Will Go Alice the Camel Alice, Where Are You Going? All by Myself The Alphabet Song The Ants Go Marching Apples and Bananas Apples, Peaches Are You Sleeping? Aunt Maria Auntie, Will Your Dog Bite? Away Down East, Away Down West
B	Baby Bumblebee Baby Rhinoceros Ball-bouncing Rhymes Banbury Cross Bat, Bat Bears Eat Honey Bees Betty Botter A Bicycle Built for Two The Big Black Bug A Birthday Song The Boy in the Barn Bumblebee Bunch of Blue Ribbons
C	Can You Can? Can You Wash Your Father's Shirt? Cap, Mittens, Shoes, and Socks Catalina Magnalina Chitterabob Choo-choo Train The Clever Hen The Clock A Cloud Cock-a-doodle-doo! Coffee and Tea Colors Counting Polar Bears Crocodile
D	Did You Feed My Cow? Dig a Little Hole Dingle Dangle Scarecrow The Donkey Down on the Farm
E	The Elephant Who Jumped a Fence Engine, Engine, Number Nine Esau
F	"Fire! Fire!" Cried Mrs. McGuire! Fishy-fishy Five Bananas Five Enormous Dinosaurs Five Fat Peas Five Little Chickadees Five Little Firefighters Five Little Froggies Five Little Leaves Five Little Mice Five Little Sparrows Five Little Speckled Frogs Four Seasons Fresh Fried Fish
G	Giddyup, Horsie The Gingerbread Man Go 'Round and 'Round the Village Going to the Fair Good Morning, Mrs. Hen Good Morning Song The Grand Old Duke of York
H	Handy Pandy Hanky Panky Hark, Hark! Here We Go Hey Diddle Diddle Hey Diddle Dout Hickory, Dickory, Dare Hickory, Dickory, Dean Hickory, Dickory, Dock Hippity-hop to the Candy Shop A Horse and a Flea and Three Blind Mice Horsie, Horsie How Much Dew?
I	I Don't Suppose I Had a Little Brother I Had a Little Rooster I Had a Loose Tooth I Have a Little Cough I Have Two Eyes I Know a Little Puppy I Know Something I Love the Mountains I Never Had a Dog That Could Talk I Saw a Saw I Saw Three Ships I Scream I Went Downtown I Would If I Could If I Had a Donkey If You're Happy and You Know It I'm a Little Teapot It's Raining The Itsy, Bitsy Spider I've Got a Dog as Thin as a Rail
J	Jack Be Nimble Jack Sprat Jack-in-the-box Johnny Appleseed
K	Knock, Knock
L	Ladies and Gentlemen The Lady and the Crocodile The Lady With the Alligator Purse Lavender's Blue The Lion and the Unicorn Listen to the Tree Bear Little Betty Blue Little Bird Little Blue Ben Little Bo-Peep Little Boy Blue The Little Green Frog Little Mousie Little Nancy Etticoat Little Peter Rabbit The Little Plant Little Pup, Little Pup Little Raindrops Little Robin Redbreast Little Sally Waters Little Silver Airplane Little White Rabbit London Bridge Looby-loo
M	The Man in the Moon Mary Ann, Mary Ann Mary Had a Little Lamb Mary Wore Her Red Dress Mary's Canary Merrily We Roll Along Mistress Mary Monday Morning Moon, Moon The Moon Shines Bright The More We Get Together Mouse in a Hole My Apple My Aunt Jane My Big Balloon My Bike My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean My Favorite Toys My Hat, It Has Three Corners My Love for You
N	Night, Knight Nut Tree
O	Oats, Peas, Beans Old Dan Tucker The Old Gray Cat Old King Cole Old MacDonald Had a Farm The Old Man and the Cow Old Mother Hubbard The Old Woman On Saturday Night On Top of Spaghetti One Finger, One Thumb, Keep Moving One for the Money One for Sorrow One Man Went to Mow One Misty, Moisty Morning One, Two, How Do You Do? One, Two, Three, Four, Five Out Over in the Meadow
P	Papa's Glasses Peanut Butter and Jelly Pease Porridge Hot Peter Piper Polly, Put the Kettle On Polly Wolly Doodle Pop! Goes the Weasel Pumpkin Orange The Pussycat and the Queen
Q	The Queen of Hearts
R	Roosters Crow 'Round and 'Round Rub-a-dub-dub
S	Sam, Sam, the Butcher Man Say and Touch She'll Be Coming 'Round the Mountain Shoo Fly Sing a Song of Sixpence Sing, Sing Sippity Sup Six Little Ducks Six Little Snowmen Sleep, Baby, Sleep! Slip on Your Raincoat Slowly, Slowly The Smile Song A Snail Snow, Snow, Fly Away Snowman Soda Bread The Squirrel Star Light, Star Bright Stretch Up High A Sunshiny Shower Swim Little Fishie Swim, Swan, Swim
T	Ten Fat Sausages Thank You There Are Seven Days There Once Was a Sow There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly There Was an Old Man of Peru There Was an Old Person of Ware There's a Hole in the Middle of the Sea There's Music in a Hammer Thirty Days Has September This Little Hand This Old Man Three Elephants Three Jolly Gentlemen Three Little Bugs Three Wise Men of Gotham Tick-Tock Tingalayo A Tiny Seed To Bed, To Bed Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son Tommy Snooks Traffic Safety Tweedle-dum and Tweedle-dee Twenty White Horses Two Cats of Kilkenny Two Crows Two Little Dogs
U	Up in the Green Orchard
V	The Vowel Song
V	Way Down South What Animals Say What Do You See? What's Your Name? Where Do You Wear Your Ears? Where, Oh, Where Has My Little Dog Gone? Whose Little Pigs Wibbleton to Wobbleton Wiggly Woo Willy Boy, Willy Boy A Wise Old Owl