Old MacDonald Looking for a great way to encourage the beginner speaker? This is one of the most popular children’s songs that is perfect as the song has vowel sounds featured as well as consonant-vowel sounds (animal sounds). It is also great for the beginner reader as they can point to each picture/word as they sing the song. As the child can make choices of the animals being sung it gives them some independence. As I worked with children I noticed that some of the children were just swattin