Word Wall Words Singing High Frequency Words

Songs that help teach words

Here are a few songs/chants I have added to my collection:

1. (tune-”If You’re Happy and You Know It”)
If you think you know this word raise your hand(2x)
If you think you know this word that you just heard,
If you think you know this word raise your hand.
(supply a word stretching it out ex: c-a-t)

2. (“Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star”)
Listen. listen to my word
Tell me all the sounds you heard: /Cat/ (say this slowly and wait a moment)
/c/ is one sound, /a/ is two/t/ is last in /cat/ it’s true!
(at the end sing):
Thanks for listening to my words
and telling me the sounds you heard!

3. (tune: “Jimmy Cracked Corn and I Don’t Care”)
Who has a /d/ word to share with us?
Who has a /d/ word to share with us?
Who has a /d/ word to share with us?
It must start with the /d/ sound!
(call on children to supply word and class sings this together)
Dog is a word that starts with /d/
Dog is a word that starts with /d/
Dog is a word that starts with /d/
Dog starts with the /d/ sound.

4. (tune: “Old MacDonald Had a Farm”)
What’s the sound that starts these words:
Turtle, time, and teeth?
(wait for a response from the children)
/t/ is the sound that starts these words:
turtle, time, and teeth.
With a /t/, /t/ here, and a /t/, /t/ there,
Here a /t/, there a /t/, everywhere a /t/, /t/.
/t/ is the sound that starts these words: Turtle, time, and teeth!
You all did great now clap your hands!
(clap, clap, clap, clap, clap)-you can use beginning sounds, medial sounds, or final sounds

5. (“Skip to my Lou”)
Silly Willy, who should I choose? (repeat 3x)
I choose_____________________.
(Terry, berry) – continue the song using students names

6. (“Have You Ever Seen a Lassie”)
Did you ever see a cat, a cat, a cat,
Did you ever see a cat sit on a rat? r-at, c-at r-at, c-at,
Did you ever see a cat sit on a rat?
-repeat the verse using other animal rhyming words

7. (“If You’re Happy and You Know It”)
If your name begins with /m/, stand up,
If your name begins with /m/, stand up,
If your name begins with /m/, stand up and take a bow,
If your name begins with /m/, stand up.
-you can also use this with pictures
“If your picture begins with /s/, stand up”, etc.

8. (“A Hunting We Will Go”)
A searching we will go, a searching we will go,
We’ll find a /h/ and add a /orse/,And now we have a horse!

9. (chant)It begins with /t/,
And it ends with /im/.
Put them toghter,
And they say _______.
(Tim)

10. (“The Wheels on the Bus”)
The sounds in the word go /c/ /a/ /t/;
/c/ /a/ /t/; /c/ /a/ /t/.
The sounds in the word go /c/ /a/ /t/,
Can you guess the word?