Presents key grammatical structures and practices them through jazz chanting.

A celebration of over 25 years of Jazz Chantsandreg;.

The Jazz Chants series of books features Carolyn Graham's world-renowned technique to teach the natural stress and intonation of American English. Mother Goose Jazz Chants is for younger children at the intermediate level, following on from Jazz Chant Fairy Tales and Jazz Chants for Children, which are at the beginning-to-intermediate level.

How do children learn music? And how can music teachers help children to become independent and self-sufficient musical thinkers? Author Eric Bluestine sheds light on these issues in music education.

Songs in Their Heads is a vivid and engaging book that bridges the disciplines of music education, ethnomusicology, and folklore. This revised and expanded edition includes additional case studies, updated illustrative material, and a new section exploring the relationship between children's musical practices and current technological advances. Designed as a text or supplemental text for a variety of music education methods courses, as well as a reference for music specialists and classroom teachers, this book can also help parents understand and enhance their own children's music making.

A whimsical children's picture book full of witty animal puns, subtle rhyme schemes, and vibrant hand-drawn illustrations, "The Thing I Do" shines a spotlight on the unique mythical character to the Unicorn Jazz book series --- Trezekke the Zebracorn! In The Thing I Do, join Trezekke and his magical friends. Boldly and bravely, he volunteers in front of his classmates and shares his thoughts about the thing that he likes to do best, but there's a catch. Rather than telling us his favorite activity, Trezekke drops clues and hints to correctly guess his favorite thing to do.

This classic collection from Maureen Kennedy was first published in 1974. This brand new edition has been revised and edited to present classic children's songs, games, jump rope chants, and clapping games.These pieces come directly from children on the playground. Maureen has researched and collected all of these wonderful activities both as a historian and as a music educator. She has preserved them in the written notation exactly as she heard the children play them.This is a wonderful resource of all elementary teachers.A world of rhythm and melody may be going on right in your neighborhood. To tune in on what's happening, join the children on the playground or sidewalk, and listen. Chances are your local variety of play chants is being sung and clapped to or used as accompaniments to bouncing balls and jump ropes. I learned many of the songs and games in this collection from the children in my school. They sang, danced and played intricate clapping games with great gusto.Wherever children make do with improvised play space, may these songs and rhymes continue to be chanted and the games played.-Maureen Kennedy

A delightful offering from classroom teacher and storyteller Susan Milligan and jazz singer and music teacher Louise Rogers, the Jazzy Fairy Tales Resource Guide and CD is designed to bring jazz music into your classroom. The activities provided in the manual may be used as a supplement to an existing program or to provide a ready-made, easy-to-use, all-encompassing music curriculum. The Appendix includes music theory terms, jazz terminology, standard blues form, and notation (melody with chords) for most of the themes and songs.