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“WORD WALL CHANTS

1. Caribbean Spelling – hands on hips, and swivel on each letter. On the word, say, “Woo!”
2. Sing opera style
3. Box It / Kickbox It – Correspond right/left arm/leg with vowels or consonants
4. Frisbee _ throw each letter as you would a frisbee
5. Yo-yo – bend your arms at the elbow and alternate your hands up and down as you say each letter.
6. Voices _ change your voice for each repetition: loud, soft, whisper, squeak, growl, baby-talk, etc.
7. Groups _ different groups cheer after each other (boys, then girls, then whole class)
8. Blast Off – start crouched at floor as you say each letter get a little higher, when jump into the air as you say the whole word I also use frog-jumps. They are similar to Blast-off. We start standing up. As we say each letter, we crouch down a little farther. Then, as we say the word, we “jump”.
9. Hand Jive – just like on the playground, pair up and clap hands for consonants and lap clap for vowels
10. Back Tracer – sit in circle and trace the letters as you spell on a partners back
11. Mouse -squeaky voice with hands curled up by face
12. Robot -in robotic voice with arms moving back and forth (“Danger! Danger! Will Robinson” style)
13. Fly it like a bird -arms flapping up and down
14. Chicken – arms folded up to make wings and head moving forward
15. Nose – hold your nose and spell it
16. Cheer It (Give me an “h” , etc.) Like a cheerleader.
17. Pat — pat our heads for tall letters, tummies for short letters and knees for ones that go below the line
18. Beat it on our Desks
19. Snap and Clap — We snap for the vowels and clap for the consonants.
20. Raise the Roof — We just push up toward the ceiling, one push for each letter.
21. Ketchup — Shake our hand like we’re trying to get ketchup out of a bottle.
22. Disco (Hand up for consonants, hand down for vowels) Pretend to be John Travolta.
23. Throw the Stars — Throw one hand at a time toward the ceiling for each letter.
24. Be the Letter (Body Language) — For “s” we slither down to the floor while saying “e-e-e-s-s-“.
25. Mexican Hat Dance (alternate feet in front)
26. Flapping and Nodding — Pretend you’re a bird and flap your wings and nod your head for each letter.
27. Stomping — Just stomp your feet for each letter.
28. Army _ march letters and salute on the word
29. Clapping Syllables — Just clap for each syllable
30. Explosion (Volcano) (whisper, normal, loud) They love to do this. Pretty self-explanatory.
31. Marshmallow Clap – Almost clap but stop before your hand touch. Say each letter.
32. Hula — hands on hips, swivel, hands in air to say word
33. Jumping Jacks — One letter for each movement.  (sterspronge)
34. Toe Touches – touch your toes for each letter.
35. BATTER UP – We get into the batting position and swing on each letter as we say it
36. SLOW We hold the sound of the letter or a few seconds like sit…s……………i…………………t……………
37. Motorcycle – We just hang on to “handle bars” and pretend that we are doing wheelies..!
38. Dribble and Shoot — Dribble the letters and shoot the word.
39. Cowboy — straddle chair and lasso
40. Push-ups – or stomach crunches, bicep curls, etc.
41. Blowing Kisses — kiss for each letter and 2 hands kiss (extend both arms out and up) for the word
42. Pass the Ball – sit in circle and pass the ball. Last person says word and chooses the next word.”