Read/Write/Sing is our Shared Reading/Writing portion of EDK. Generally, I choose one book for the class to focus on for the duration of a week, along with related poems.  Most of the stories chosen for Read/Write/Sing are highly predictable (repetitive wording, close matching of text and illustration).  Some of the stories are modern, but for the most part they are engaging, traditional, well-loved stories that children love to visit again and again

You may also wish to view a  printable Sample Literacy Sequence . It will show you how our shared reading lessons fit in with other literacy components in our classroom.

Also, you may want to see a Quick Reference Shared Reading Book List.  This PDF contains author, publisher, and ISBN information for all of the focus story books and the coordinating companion stories shown below.

Check out some of the activities we do based on the following stories!

Do You Want To Be My Friend? Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? (and additional color ideas) I See Shapes The  Pledge of Allegiance Letter and Rhyme a Day (Shared Readings with Nursery Rhymes) Chicka Chicka Boom Boom   Mouse Mess Ten Red Apples We're Going on a Leaf Hunt Patty's Pumpkin Patch   The Very Busy Spider Good Night Moon (and other nighttime rhymes/stories) The Pilgrim's First Thanksgiving (and other Thanksgiving stories) Hattie and the Fox The Little Red Hen The Gingerbread Man The Mitten The Three Bears The Three Billy Goats Gruff The Three Little Pigs Who Took the Cookies from the Cookie Jar? One Monday Morning (Coming in the Future) The Cat in the Hat (and other Dr. Seuss stories) (Sorry, this content has been removed.)   Mary Had a Little Lamb  (and other sheep related poems/stories) The Enormous "Kinder" Garden ('Enormous' growing books such as The Enormous Watermelon.) It Started as an Egg/ The Chick and the Duckling Dinosaurs (Coming in the Future) Rain I Like Bugs! (butterflies, ants, and ladybugs) Caps for Sale Little Engine That Could

(Most links, above, show a possible 5 day plan for a focus story, a companion story, and a rhyme.   Please note, however, that stories, activities, and lessons change from year to year
in order to meet the needs of students.)

• track print from left to right and word by word
• predict and infer
• enjoy and participate in reading with a high level of support
• build a sense of story
• expand their vocabulary
• find letters and sounds in context
• attend to concepts of print (spacing, capitalization, punctuation)
• sequence the events of a story
• focus on story elements (characters, setting, beginning, middle, end)

Predictable Texts Singable Books Traditional Stories Brown Bear, Brown Bear What Do You See? Down By the Bay Caps for Sale The Carrot Seed Five Little Ducks The Gingerbread Man The Chick and the Duckling Five Little Monkeys The Great Big, Enormous Turnip Chicka Chicka Boom Boom I Know an Old Lady Hattie and the Fox Do You Want to Be My Friend? Over in the Meadow It Looked Like Spilt Milk The Enormous Watermelon Ten in the Bed The Little Red Hen Goodnight Moon Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear The Three Bears Have You Seen My Cat?  What's the Weather Like Today? The Three Billy Goats Gruff Have You Seen My Duckling? The Wheels on the Bus The Three Little Kittens  I Can Read    The Three Little Pigs I Love Spiders   The Very Hungry Caterpillar  Is Your Mama a Llama?     It Started as an Egg     On Market Street     Polar Bear, Polar Bear What Do You Hear?     Pumpkin, Pumpkin     Rain     Things I Like     The Three Bears Songbook     Under the Sky     Who Took the Cookies from the Cookie Jar?      Who Will Help?     Zoo Looking

Graphics on this page and for the related Read/Write/Sing lesson pages are from the following Graphic Websites.