firsthand: Sing a Song of Poetry (Grade K) 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 K)
Table of Contents

Introduction 1-3
Values and Goals of Poetry in Kindergarten Classrooms

The Elements of Poetry 4-7
Rhyme
Rhythm
Figurative Language
Language Patterns
Repetition
Sensory Images

Important Areas of Learning for Kindergarten Children 8-9
Phonological Awareness
Letter Learning
Phonics
Concepts about Print
Fluency

Selecting Poetry for Young Children 11-12

Planning for Teaching Opportunities When Revisiting a Text 13-15
Word Analysis Teaching Opportunities When Revisiting Poetry

Tools for Using Poetry 16

Instructional Contexts for Poetry 17-18
Interactive Read-Aloud
Shared Reading
Choral Reading and Performance
Independent Reading
Writing Poetry

Types of Poetry 19-24
Nursery Rhymes
Rhymed Verse
Free Verse (Unrhymed)
Word Play
Humorous Verse
Songs
Action Songs and Poems
Concept Poems

Fifty Ways to Use Poems-Plus! 25-30

Poetry Links to Phonics Lessons 31-32

Poems

A	A-hunting We Will Go All by Myself The Alphabet Song The Ants Go Marching Apple Harvest Apples, Peaches Are You Sleeping? As I Was Going Along As I Was Walking
B	Baa, Baa, Black Sheep Baby Mice Baby Seeds The Beach The Bear Went Over the Mountain Bedtime Beets Big and Small Big Turkey Billy, Billy Bingo Blackberries Blow, Wind, Blow Bouncing Ball Bow-Wow-Wow
C	Cackle, Cackle, Mother Goose The Candle The Cat Catch Him, Crow Caterpillar Charlie Over the Ocean Chickery, Chickery, Cranny, Crow Chocolate Rhyme Clap Your Hands Cobbler, Cobbler Color Song Come and Listen Come, Butter, Come Cross Patch Cuckoo, Cuckoo
D	Dance a Merry Jig Dickory, Dickory, Dare! Did You Ever See a Lassie? Diddle, Diddle, Dumpling Diddlety, Diddlety, Dumpty A Diller, A Dollar Doodlebug Dormy, Dormy, Dormouse Down by the Station Downy Duck
E	The Elephant Goes Like This Elizabeth, Elspeth, Betsey, and Bess Elsie Marley Every Morning at Eight O'Clock
F	The Farmer in the Dell Father, Mother, and Uncle John Fiddle-de-dee Fido Five Fat Peas Five Fat Pumpkins Five Fingers on Each Hand Five Little Ducks Five Little Ducks Went in for a Swim Five Little Fingers Five Little Froggies Five Little Monkeys in a Tree Five Little Monkeys on the Bed Five Little Sausages Five Little Snowmen A Frog Sat on a Log Frosty Weather Fuzzy Wuzzy
G	Georgy Porgy Giddyup Go In and Out the Window Go to Bed Go to Bed Early Gobble, Gobble, Gobble Good Morning Good Morning to You Grandpa Grig Gray Squirrel Great A
H	Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes Hear the Lively Song Here Are My Ears Here Are My Eyes Here Is a Bunny Here Is a House Here Is the Sea Here We Go Hey Diddle Diddle Hiccup, Hiccup Hickety, Pickety Hickory, Dickory, Dock! Hickory, Dickory, Dore! Higglety, Pigglety, Pop! High and Low Hippity Hop Hokey Pokey Hot Cross Buns How Many Days? Humpty Dumpty
I	I Can Do It Myself I Clap My Hands I Clap My Hands to Make a Sound I Had a Loose Tooth I Have a Little Wagon I Love Chocolate I Measure Myself I Scream I Stand on Tiptoe I Wiggle If I Were a Bird If You're Happy and You Know It I'm a Choo-Choo Train I'm Dusty Bill I'm a Little Acorn Brown I'm a Little Teapot It's Raining The Itsy, Bitsy Spider
J	Jack and Jill Jack, Be Nimble Jack-in-the-box Jack, Jack Jack Sprat Jerry Hall Johnny Taps With One Hammer Jumping Beans Jumping Joan
L	Ladybug! Ladybug! Lazy Mary Little Ball Little Bo-Peep A Little Doggie Little Fishes in a Brook Little Jack Horner Little Jack Sprat Little Miss Muffet Little Miss Tucket Little Mouse Little Paul Parrot Little Red Apple Little Robin Redbreast Little Snail Little Tommy Tucker Little White Rabbit London Bridge The Lost Shoe Lucy Locket
M	Make a Pancake The Man in the Moon Mary Ann, Mary Ann Mary Had a Little Lamb Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary Mary Wore Her Red Dress Milkman, Milkman Mix a Pancake The Mocking Bird Muffin Man My Apple My Dog, Rags My Eyes Can See My Head My Little Sister
O	Old MacDonald Had a Farm Oliver Twist One for Sorrow One Potato, Two Potato One, Two, Buckle My Shoe One, Two, Three, Four Open, Shut Them
P	Papa's Glasses Pat-a-cake A Peanut Sat on a Railroad Track Peas Pease Porridge Hot Peter, Peter, Pumpkin-eater Point to the Right Polly Put the Kettle On Pop! Goes the Weasel Puppies and Kittens Pussycat, Pussycat
R	Rain on the Rooftops Rain, Rain, Go Away Red, White, and Blue Ride a Cock-horse Rig-a-jig-jig Ring Around the Rosie The Rooster Roses Are Red Row, Row, Row Your Boat
S	Sally, Go 'Round See-Saw, Marjorie Daw Sing, Sing Six Little Ducks Skip to My Lou Slippery Soap Snail, Snail Someone's Birthday Sometimes Stop, Look, and Listen Stretch Stretching Fun
T	Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear Teeter-totter Ten Little Fingers There Once Was a Queen There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly There Was an Old Woman There Was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe This Is the Way We Go to School This Is the Way We Wash Our Face This Little Piggy This Old Man Three Blind Mice Three Little Kittens Three Men in a Tub Time to Pick Up A Tisket, a Tasket To Market, to Market Today Tommy Snooks Tommy Thumbs Toys Away Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star Two, Four, Six, Eight Two Little Blackbirds Two Little Houses
U	Up in the North Up to the Ceiling
W	Wash Hands, Wash We Can Wee Willie Winkie What Animals Say What's the Weather? Wheels on the Bus When Ducks Get Up in the Morning Where Is Thumbkin? Who Is Wearing Red? Who Stole the Cookies? The Whole Duty of Children Whoops, Johnny Why Rabbits Jump Willaby, Wallaby, Woo The Wind Wind the Bobbin Window Watching Windshield Wiper
Y	Yankee Doodle
Z	Zoom, Zoom, Zoom