This procedure develops sequencing and comprehension skills. Important if you're teaching a story sequence through song, which many 'campfire' songs and hymns do. Interpret the song in the form of skits, plays, puppet shows, etc. Students discuss the mood created by the music and make predictions about the type of story to be read. Students write descriptions of their pictures.
Children enjoy singing and sharing songs with their peers.
For improved reading skills, develop beat competency via clapping, tapping, marching, or dancing. Write each stanza of the song on large sheets of paper. Individual students or groups illustrate a part. When you take the pictures down, put them together as a class book 13. Provide students with transparencies to illustrate stanzas from the song.