Teaching Children Through Chants & Play

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“Words represent your intellect. The sound, gesture and movement represent your

feelings.” - Patricia Fripp

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Active Teach vocabulary Teach grammar

Fun Hand eye coordinationCooperative learning

Why chanting games?

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“Language body conversation”

- Dr. James Asher

Total Physical Response (TPR)

Jump Rope Chants

A my name is ALICE, my brother/sister's name is AL, we live in ALABAMA and we bring back APPLES. B my name is B___, my brother/sister's name is B___, we live in B___ and we bring back B___.

What are we learning?

What are we learning?

Simple present

Plural forms

It’s a gapfill

Family

Nouns

Alphabet

Cinderella, dressed in yellow went upstairs to kiss a 'fellow made a mistake and kissed a snake how many doctors did it take? 1, 2, 3….

Jump Rope Games

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Clapping Chants

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A sailor went to sea, sea, sea. To see what he could see, see, see. But all that he could see, see, see. Was the bottom of the deep blue sea, sea, sea.

Show them videos!

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Ring around the rosy A pocketful of posies

"Ashes, Ashes" We all fall down!

Chants teach history

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Model it!

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