This lesson is excerpted from Fran Avni's I'm All Ears: Sing
Into Reading. Cahoon, Heather. Word Play ABC Walker, 1999.
Visual puns for each letter: C, crock-pot, shows a little
crocodile in a pot. Chinese Mother Goose Rhymes = [Ju tzu ko
t`u] selected and edited by Robert Wyndham; pictures by Ed
Young. Philomel Books, 1989, © 1968. A collection of nursery
rhymes translated from Chinese; also includes the rhymes in
Chinese characters. Degen, Bruce. Jamberry. Harper, 1983. A
story about a boy and a bear with lots of berries and
rollickinginventive rhymes. Kit. De Paola, Tomie. Andy: That's
My Name. Prentice Hall, 1973. Children play with huge letters to
make different words from ANDY: candy, dandy... de Regniers,
Beatrice Schenk, et. al. Sing a Song of Popcorn. Scholastic,
1988. High quality poems and excellent illustrators. Word/sound-
play poems include "Galoshes," and "Eletelephony" which starts,
"Once there was an elephant/Who tried to use the telephant..."
Dodds, Dayle Ann. Wheel Away. Harper, 1989. The bi