- Carolyn Graham is creator of Jazz Chants. She has taught at Harvard University and New York Teachers college. She has created a delightful collection of chants, songs, and poems that employ the natural language that children use. She is the creator of numerous English language teaching books, most notably Jazz Chants and Let’s Sing, Let’s Chant, published by Oxford University Press.
- Jazz Chants for Children is a delightful collection of chants, songs, and poems written especially for children. These jazz chants revolve around children and employ the natural language that children use. They also introduce and reinforce the language structures and functions of everyday spoken English and provide a way of improving students’ speaking and listening skills.
- “My nine summers of teaching at Harvard were among the most memorable of my 25 years in the language classroom. It was an extraordinary program made possible by the amazing talent of the late Anne who not only selected her summer staff personally but allowed us total freedom to use our creativity to its fullest extent”.
- “For me, that meant a class full of jazz chants, poetry, music and drama. In our music program I asked neighboring retirement homes to send the elders to Harvard on Saturdays and join my students in a sing-along. The students loved the opportunity to practice their spoken English with people of their own grandparents’ age and the elders taught the songs to the students. To put it mildly we all had a wonderful time.”
- You can visit videos of her using jazz chants in classrooms at:
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