This book contains lots of poems and rhymes using sight words. The poems are catchy rhymes and most have cute little pictures to go with them.
I write the poems on chart paper and sentence strips and we read and chant together as a class. I let students use fancy pointers and they love having a turn to lead the class.
Then I copy the pages... actually I reduce them and trim off the bottom so that they will fit inside a composition book. I don't reduce the size too much. I still want the students to be able to write on the lines on each page. Each week (or sometimes twice a week, depending!) students use a glue stick to add a new poem. Then, they write in the appropriate high frequency word and read! The students keep these composition books in their desks, and I encourage them to read the poems when they have extra time or during independent reading.
This is the cute label that I put on the front of each child's composition book!
Click on the image to get your own copies of this label!
