Places to find music for your classes - for YOUNG learners of ESL
Words, actions, worksheets, music mp3s or midi files and sheet music is available in many places on the internet. Here are some useful ones:
Songs For Teaching - The Definitive Source for Educational Music. Creative teachers can use music to teach content across the curriculum – to students of all ages. This site offers thousands of children's songs, lyrics, sound clips and teaching suggestions.
Mother Goose Club - a complete list of nursery rhymes, with a kids page, parents page, and sheet music.
Songs with Music - a great site with lots of kids songs and music files too.
Kididdles - this is a huge site with lots of songs with words and some with music - all freely available.
Storytime Songs - this site has lots of old favourites and guitar chords too.
The Baby Patch has a lot of songs, with guitar chords, for little kids. Although our students are not babies, they are in the early stages of learning the English language.
Here are the songs - this site starts playing music as soon as you go there, and has lists of songs that you can click on to hear the tunes.
Kristin Hall's Fabulous Song Book - lots and lots of songs, many different types (so not all suitable necessarily), in pdf format with guitar chords. No music - you need to know the song or find the tunes elsewhere.
SongDrops - another website that boasts children's music - not all of it traditional.
Boy Scout Song Book - lots of words, and ideas for skits and cheers too.No music.
Flying Pig - lots of song words for scouts and guides (no music.).
Dragon's Sleep Deprived Camp Songs - Lots of songs for singing around the campfire, words only.
Children's poetry archive - a place to find some good children's poetry and hear it read aloud by the poet.
Apples4theTeacher has printable poetry for kids, by theme, including nursery rhymes.
Songs For Teaching - The Definitive Source for Educational Music. Creative teachers can use music to teach content across the curriculum – to students of all ages. This site offers thousands of children's songs, lyrics, sound clips and teaching suggestions.
Mother Goose Club - a complete list of nursery rhymes, with a kids page, parents page, and sheet music.
Songs with Music - a great site with lots of kids songs and music files too.
Kididdles - this is a huge site with lots of songs with words and some with music - all freely available.
Storytime Songs - this site has lots of old favourites and guitar chords too.
The Baby Patch has a lot of songs, with guitar chords, for little kids. Although our students are not babies, they are in the early stages of learning the English language.
Here are the songs - this site starts playing music as soon as you go there, and has lists of songs that you can click on to hear the tunes.
Kristin Hall's Fabulous Song Book - lots and lots of songs, many different types (so not all suitable necessarily), in pdf format with guitar chords. No music - you need to know the song or find the tunes elsewhere.
SongDrops - another website that boasts children's music - not all of it traditional.
Boy Scout Song Book - lots of words, and ideas for skits and cheers too.No music.
Flying Pig - lots of song words for scouts and guides (no music.).
Dragon's Sleep Deprived Camp Songs - Lots of songs for singing around the campfire, words only.
Children's poetry archive - a place to find some good children's poetry and hear it read aloud by the poet.
Apples4theTeacher has printable poetry for kids, by theme, including nursery rhymes.
Create a Jazz Chant
Check out this video by the renowned Carolyn Graham on how to create your own vocabulary Jazz Chant.
Sound Files
Some of the above sites offer sound files for songs.
On this site, I am gradually adding files for songs, so keep checking back if you can't find what you want.
On this site, I am gradually adding files for songs, so keep checking back if you can't find what you want.
The Next Page
On the next page there are some traditional songs that you can use in the classroom.