I use weekly songs and poems with my kindergarten class to teach Concept-of-Word skills. I have students find certain letters, words, spaces between words, long words, short words, high-frequency words, rhyming pairs, punctuation, vowel patterns, blends, etc.
At the end of the week, students glue their copy of the poem into their Reading Notebook and take it home to read the poem and practice the “Can You” activities with their parents. The Reading Notebook eventually gets filled up with son