How Do I Use Chants with Open Court Reading?
Animals, Animals
by Mathew Needleman
Animals, animals all around.
In their habitat they can be found.
They each need certain foods
To live and grow
And they live where they can get that food
They always know.
Some live in water,
Some live on land.
And the hermit crab finds his own home
No one gives him a hand.
This chant teaches the vocabulary “habitat” and the colloquialism “give him a hand”.
It also teaches the science standard that animals inhabit different kinds of environments and meet their needs in different ways and coincides with the story “The Hermit Crab.”
Skunks!
by Mathew Needleman
Yes, I said skunks!
They really stink.
They’re black and white
Their hair is furry
But I’m in a hurry
To get away from skunks.
They’re really stink.
Hermit crabs!
That’s right now, hermit crabs!
They are so red
And they have claws
But don’t have jaws
No, they’re not sharks
I said they’re hermit crabs.
Lions!
Watch out for lions
They’re kind of orange
Or orange-brown
When they’re not happy
They wear a frown.
They have a mane
Around their head
They often growl
That’s what I said.
This chant models describing animals for students.
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