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Jingle
  I find that making up "jingles" or songs related to the content is extremely beneficial and useful for student learning.  I sang a jingle for students and incorporated realia to teach a lesson on shapes to my first grade students.

It goes like this:

Sphere, Sphere, what's your clue?
I look like a soccer ball I kick with my shoe

Cube, cube, what's your clue?
I look a die that you just threw

Rectangular prism what's your clue?
I look like a tissue box...ahhhchoooo

Cone, Cone, what's your clue?
Don't let the ice cream I hold drip on you

Pyramid, pyramid, what's your clue?
I look like the house the Egyptians walked through

Cylinder, cylinder, what's your clue?
I look like a can of chicken noodle soup.

(As I sang the lyrics, I held up the object I was singing about.  Students would repeat after I taught them about one shape/ sang about the shape.)