Jazz Chants for Children

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This delightful, beautifully illustrated book uses chants, songs, and poems to teach conversational American English to elementary school children. Using Professor Graham's recently developed and widely acclaimed technique of set-ting everyday conversational English to jazz rhythms, this innovative book for children capitalizes on their natural affinity for rhyming games, rhythm, and move-ment in a systematic series of units focusing on their emotional as well as linguistic needs.
Each unit consists of a chant, song, or poem which teaches the basic structure of the language, and a picture activity which relates to the situation or the structure of the chant. Chants dealing with feelings such as anger, fear, joy, pride, and many others are presented with accompanying picture activities such as puzzles, mazes, matching games, or hidden words and pictures, all high-lighting situations which children continually encounter. The rhythms and humor of the chants prove to be a highly... Tovább

Fülszöveg

This delightful, beautifully illustrated book uses chants, songs, and poems to teach conversational American English to elementary school children. Using Professor Graham's recently developed and widely acclaimed technique of set-ting everyday conversational English to jazz rhythms, this innovative book for children capitalizes on their natural affinity for rhyming games, rhythm, and move-ment in a systematic series of units focusing on their emotional as well as linguistic needs.
Each unit consists of a chant, song, or poem which teaches the basic structure of the language, and a picture activity which relates to the situation or the structure of the chant. Chants dealing with feelings such as anger, fear, joy, pride, and many others are presented with accompanying picture activities such as puzzles, mazes, matching games, or hidden words and pictures, all high-lighting situations which children continually encounter. The rhythms and humor of the chants prove to be a highly motivating and effective teaching tool. All chants, songs, and poems are recorded by the author and a group of children on a one-hour cassette which accompanies the package.
A Teacher's Edition contains pages (in reduced size) from the student's edition, and detailed suggestions for presenting the chants, songs, and poems as well as the activities.
The Author
Carolyn Graham is a member of the faculty of New York University where she is a teacher of English as a Second Language at the American Language Insti-tute. She is the author of Jazz Chants (1978), alsó published by the Oxford University Press. Vissza