Pictorial Songbooks
Write up enough songs
in this way over the year and you'll have a permanent class songbook that kids
can "read" as they sing their favorites.
Objectives
Children ages 4-5 can interpret pictures containing several
ideas Lang. IA
and they can read the pictures Lang. IB
Children ages 2-2 ½ years can identify objects and actions in picture Lang. IB
Materials
Large piece of butcher
paper which can be tacked on wall and rolled up for storage or large
(18"x24") artist's sketch pad with spiral binding; felt pens or
crayons; song texts.
Procedures
1. Choose any songs that the children know and like and that can
be easily represented visually, line by line.
2. Write out the words, line by line, in print large enough for the children to
see and read easily. Leave enough space between lines and at the end of lines
to allow for an illustration. You might lightly write in the words in pencil
beforehand and then, in front of the children, write them out with dark felt
pen, enunciating them or having the children dictate them.
3. Make a picture which illustrates the meaning of that line. Again, the
pictures could be sketched in lightly beforehand and drawn in darker when the
children are watching. Class artists might do some of the pictures or add the
missing parts and details.
NOTE: See the following 2-page illustration for example:
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