Read the song
Hand out the lyrics to a familiar carol and sing it together while kids track the words with a finger. Then ask them to find rhyming words or count the times a word repeats. It's reading practice that feels like a party.
Why it works: words set to a repeating melody are easier to recall than the same words spoken (Wallace, 1994).
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