Solves "Tricky" Sound Confusion (e.g. "u" for "a" "i" for "e")

1.  Each song lyric is for one letter and its sound.

2.  Each lyric is prolifically enriched with the alliterative use of the letter and sound.

3.  Song lyrics are rich in rhyme and lyrical hooks, which together with the rhythm of the music makes recall of the sound/letter easy.

4.  Each song lyric is repeated twice.

5.  Children love these songs. Jazzles songs can be played as background music to art and craft activities. Children will hum away and sing the lyrics to themselves, reinforcing sound/letter knowledge.

6.  Each Lesson Pack, centered as it is on a letter and its sound, provides you with multiple playful ways to incorporate the phonemic awareness of this letter into a week or more of fun activities - or until learning is consolidated.

7.  These activities cover the five different learning styles as well as the appropriate 5 senses. This facilitates a child's ability to recall instantly and correctly a letter and its sound, so achieving early reading success!

Phonics Demystified Means Everyone Can Help Each Other
Not just for teachers. These Jazzles Lesson Packs are so simple, virtually anyone can use them to inject phonics purpose into play and group activities. You won’t find technical definitions like Diphthongs, Short and Long Vowels, Consonant Digraphs in the Packs.

If you are a teacher, you will recognize these teaching opportunities in the tips, to use as your individual teaching requires. If you are a helper or a parent, you don’t need to know or be frightened by these terms – you will be doing it anyway!

Children Love ‘Playing’ with Variety and Purpose
Children will ‘beg’ you to play one or Jazzles songs a day. They love these songs – from whatever cultural background they come. They love the beat, the different styles of music. They love the humor in the lyrics, they love the actions they can use to dance and dramatize the stories in the songs.

Benefits include children being on task, being focused - better behaved and motivated to learn -- acquiring early reading, writing and spelling skills faster than you can imagine!

Importantly if you are a teacher, you will find it easier to demonstrate to parents how fun and play, achieves early literacy more effectively and with less ‘pain’ than drill and rote!

Grades PreK to K : Bilingual Grades 2/3 and Higher
The lessons are primarily for the above but may also be appropriate for others depending on the school district’s curriculum and the level of your students.

Included in the Packs are teaching instructions for: Phonics, High-Frequency Words, Identify and Form Letters, Spelling, Phonemic Awareness, Early Reading Readiness Skills , Short Vowels, Consonants.

Opportunities to Teach: In addition to the above, use the resources to teach punctuation, word patterns, consonants digraphs, long vowels, consonant blends, diphthongs.

Works for ESL students upto young adults because all the language is contemporary.
Jazzles is effective even with adult ESL learners because its well organized, has attractive story lines (no babyish words), comes with meaningfully related illustrations, creative themes and topics that appeal to adults.

This qualities are supported by lesson plans that enable clear class presentations and creative development of related curriculums.
For these reasons, Jazzles is successfully used for adult ESL students in schools and universities throughout the world.

"Jazzles songs and its related resources have been used in thousands of schools and homes around the world for the last five years.  In the process, based on my own as well as teacher customer experiences, I have built a wealth of experience on how to extend Jazzles across the curricula - - creating motivating lesson packs enriched with creative Phonics Knowledge and Phonemic Awareness activities.

Click here read what teachers think about Jazzles and see why it is one,
if not the most successful music based phonics product available.

Now, this is all summarized in a ready to use, easy to follow format of Creative Lesson Plans PLUS related resources, that enjoyably build Phonics Knowledge and Phonemic Awareness.

Jazzles is much more than songs promoting the five areas of reading instruction (phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary and text comprehension).

It is all about songs (also acting as little stories), embedded with phonics features to be used as an enriching resource you can integrate with other literacy learning materials to improve your children’s performances across the curricula."

Inside each Pack, there is a Plan
to turn every child into a
Jazzles Early Reading Superstar!

Jazzles caters fro the five learning styles and five senses! You’ll find teaching ideas and resources you can customize to the varying needs of your children as well as your own individual teaching style and requirements. Everyone loves variety and that includes us - the teachers. But it is variety with purpose that makes these Jazzles packs so measurably successful.

A valuable, time saver for every Pre-K to Year 2 teacher.

Invaluable for New Teachers,
For Teachers with ESL students,
For Special Education Teachers!

Invaluable continuity for substitute teachers, and school to home programs. Just check this Lesson Plan structure out!

	Music and songs requiring no prior musical expertise.
	Suggested order of Learning. (Systemic Order of Teaching Letter/Sounds.)
	Suggested Phonemic Awareness Activities to use with words as new letters are learnt.

Q: What is Jazzles?
A: Jazzles is a music-based program, skillfully integrating through heavy use of alliteration, sound/letter learning into recorded songs for every letter of the alphabet – each supported by reproducible/printable resources including the song lyrics and its associated sheets for coloring, collage, reading with ‘cut and paste’ activities.

Q: What age is Jazzles for?
A: Jazzles has songs with a relatively wide age appeal – ranging from 3 to 6 but because it never uses "babyish" words, it is also used for ESL including , for example, adult students at Cologne University.

Across its 26 songs, plus an order of the alphabet song, Jazzles use 368 contemporary and commonly used words with Readability (Gunning-Fog Index) of 4.5 (6-easy 20-hard).

Q: Why does Jazzles music help children with Early Reading?
A: Music kick starts four of our five learning styles – particularly auditory and kinesthetic. IN ADDITION, music and songs help develop concentration, listening and sequencing skills.

Singing allows you to concentrate very carefully on each subtle sound until you get it right. Music and songs tune a child’s ear to pitch to better ‘hear’ the letter and its sound – while the alliteration, the rhyme and the musical hooks and beat aids recall and memory.

There is a Jazzles song for each alphabet letter. All of the lyrics are packed full of alliteration and rhyme to help children easily understand and recall sound-letter relationship, acknowledged as one of the most important steps in reading.

Q: How do Jazzles Plans help children with phonics?
A: There is a Plan for each letter, providing you with over a hundred ideas that use the letter and its sound repeatedly (repetition being an important part of early learning) into playful phonics activities covering all five learning styles and all five senses.

Activities include singing, dance, drama, visual arts and crafts, music, reading, emergent writing, handwriting, communication, and social interaction.

Q: How will my children respond?
A: Everyone has the ability to appreciate and respond to music.

That is why we experience emotions through music and why music works so well for those with intellectual and physical disabilities.

Each year, hundreds of teachers and parents tell us how motivating and engaging children find Jazzles – so much so that both children and teachers really look forward to their daily dose of ‘Jazzles’ and its blend of intellectual skills, physical skills and creative expression.

Jazzles lyrics often have social and emotional themes and topics that interest children, make them laugh, always have meaning and where applicable, help them discuss and deal with the topic in socially acceptable ways.

Q: How Simple?
A: It is important to realize you don’t need to be ‘musical’ to use Jazzles. Behind its image of simplicity in songs and activity sheets, is a truly rich integration of phonics based activities, skills and concepts waiting to be experienced. Let your children enjoy the music and let the Lesson Plans show you how to grow that into self-expression, self-confidence, communication, interaction, and learning.

Q: Why are Jazzles Plans described as Powerful?
A: The Jazzles Plans are called Powerful because they pack a phonics experience into every age appropriate activity and curriculum areas you can think about including:-

• All Five Senses: with Jazzles Plans, all the alphabet letters and their phonetic sounds are taught using as many as possible of the appropriate five senses – seeing, hearing, smell, taste and touch.
• All Five Learning Styles: with Jazzles Plans, you can pick activities to suit any individual developmental age and learning style you will encounter including kinesthetic, visual, audio, oral, and aural.
• In Addition: the music and songs help develop concentration, listening and sequencing skills.
Teachers find it a joy to teach ‘Jazzles’ focused and happy children!

	----- Original Message ----- From: Helena To: "Lesley Beth" Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2005 11:36 PM Subject: Re Jazzles Cross curriculum program -- I love it!!! This is a big hit here with my students. I'm excited about how this is going to help them. Thanks again for creating such a wonderful resource so that music teachers, classroom teachers, and parents like me can help our kids learn and have fun while they're doing it! Helena Music Specialist ----- Original Message ----- From: Jose To: "Lesley Beth" Sent: Saturday, October 29, 2005 7:12 AM Subject: Re Jazzles Resources -- My kindergarteners love it!!. Having 26 ESL kids is a challenge, but your CD and accompanying material is wonderful. Thanks again and have a happy and safe Halloween. ----- Original Message ----- From: Jihanna To: "Lesley Beth" Sent: Friday, October 14, 2005 6:47 AM Subject: Re Jazzles Planner -- I really like them all. I have one student in particular that can learn things really fast if its set to music. Otherwise, short term memory work is really hard for him. I'm glad you put this program together. I'd like to see more! Thanks. ----- Original Message ----- From: Laura To: "Lesley Beth" Sent: Saturday, August 20, 2005 2:18 PM Subject: Re Jazzles Planner -- What a fantastic resource..I especially liked your format, including preparation suggestions up front, suggested actions to use with the lyrics, the focus on literacy and drama and then your extension ideas..it's like a blueprint for success!!! I already have individual dictionaries ready to go. I work with 2nd and 3rd grade ESL students, many who also have other special needs so this program is exactly what we need. ----- Original Message ----- From: Greta To: "Lesley Beth" Sent: Saturday, September 10, 2005 4:01 AM I love Jazzles! Thank you for sending it so quick. The children love to listen to the CD during rest time.

Q: How Does Jazzles Help Cater for Differing Learning Styles and Senses?
A: Although there are five styles of learning, three predominate: visual, auditory and kinesthetic. While most children have a dominant style, they usually combine this with others but to a lesser degree.

Visual Learning Style (and Sense of Seeing)
For non-readers, visual imagery and audio support(see auditory below) is essential. Jazzles Plans help Visual Learning through:

• Jazzles printed song lyrics.
• Letter/words in environment.
• Word Banks and Word Walls.
• Word processing/PC screens (text/writing/pictures).
• Collage alphabet letters.
• Reading activity work sheets.
• Coloring pages.
• Activity pages.
• Watching as in performance (role play, drama, dance).
• Visual arts displays (drawing, painting, models, dioramas, supporting video, etc.
• Exposure to sentence structure and punctuation.
• Opportunities to track words as they sing.

Auditory Learning Style (and Sense of Hearing)
Jazzles Plans help Auditory Learning through:

• Listening to music/songs (sung by ‘youthful’ Jazzles singers).
• Listening to alliteration and rhyme.
• Listening to others performing songs/drama/percussion playing.
• Identifying musical instruments/musical styles.
• Teacher modeled reading.
• Peer reading.

Kinesthetic Learning Style (and Sense of Touch)
Through movement, children develop social, emotional, and cognitive skills. For young children, movement is a critical means of communication, expression, and learning. Jazzles Plans help Kinesthetic Learning through:

• Actions to songs.
• Drama/Role Play.
• Movement.
• Dance.
• Dress up.
• ‘Play’ imaginary instruments (e.g.> strumming a guitar; playing a piano).
• Play percussion to music and songs.
• Writing (handwriting, labeling, emergent writing on paper or the computer).
• Coloring, painting, cutting, pasting, modeling, collage, making.

Oral
Jazzles Plans help Oral Learning through:

• Singing along.
• Sounding out words/letters
• Reading aloud/group or individual (lyrics and reading activities.
)
• Retelling 'story' in songs.
• Discussion of songs and extended ideas about the target alphabet letters.
• Identifying initial sound/words or rhyming words in a song.
• Phonemic awareness activities.
• Extension ideas about food.
• Sense of taste.

Aural
Jazzles Plans help Aural Learning through:

• Listening to the songs being sung by Jazzles singers and observing illustration of song.
• Listening and observing performances by peers (songs, mini-plays, percussion/singing, movement/dance.
• Using collage materials that have smells including lavender, coffee, jelly crystals, melon seeds, orange peel, flower petals, popcorn, rice, and herbs.

Q: What about Special Education?
A: Jazzles is suitable for all conditions where music helps for a developmental age of 4 upwards and learning disabilities or conditions such as:-ADD, Apraxia, Autism & Syndromes, Dysphagia Fluency & Voice, Visual Impairment.

Jazzles provides:

• Music which they enjoy listening to and replaying.
• Music with different styles that they make choices about.
• Lyrics that can be used as poems, rhyming stories and songs.
• Lyrics in Braille.
• Songs with real beat to they can move in rhythm to - clapping, rocking, tapping or stomping feet, waving hands, etc.
• Songs that calm and focus them.
• Songs and resources to enliven imaginations and mold ideas.
• Songs with actions to warm up limbs.
• Songs with coloring and collage activities to warm up fingers, targeting a particular fine motor action each week.
• Integrated visual and aural aids to aid communication.

Q: What about ESL children?
A: Singing enables ESL students to concentrate very carefully on each subtle sound until they get it right. Jazzles provides the environment that research shows you need for most ESL students:

• Creates a relaxed Low-Anxiety Environment.
• In turn this lowers their fear of failure.
• This helps build motivation, self-confidence and self-esteem.
• It incorporate enjoyable repetition through rhyming, rhythm, humor, and word play using lyrics that can be applied as songs, poems, or chants.
• Its musical themes appeal to everyone, including a wide range of musical styles from different cultures.
• By singing along, "in unison" with the class, your ESL children can -- without fear:
  • Practice and perfect their pronunciation of English.
  • Take risks with words without embarrassment.
  .
  • Experience enjoyably the mood and structure of the English language, its culture, expressions and mannerisms.

Jazzles Songs so carefully constructed for systematic and explicit phonics instruction, you'll agree there's nothing like it!

Every word, every line in every song has been reviewed and honed to deliver:

• Prolific Alliteration.
• Rhyme with meaning (not rhyme for rhyme sake!).
• Sound/Letter relationships for every alphabet letter.  (Phonics Knowledge.)
• Lyrics maximized to make children notice, think about, and become aware of how sounds work in over 400 commonly used words. (Phonemic Awareness.)
• Hooks to engage - that stir children’s imagination; amuse them and make them think.
• Phonics in meaningful, amusing lyrics that relate to a child’s modern world.
• Frequent retelling by using melody.
• Catchy and memorable music with a variety of styles and singers to optimize interest.

There's a lot of research that supports the importance of singing and early reading. In particular:

• Singing supports sentence building and story construction for early reading.
• Singing songs supports print tracking (by singing while reading the lyrics)
• And promotes emergent reading by story telling with melody.

With Jazzles Packs, (including Lesson Plans and related resources), children rapidly acquire phonetic based early literacy skills through an enjoyable, rewarding and satisfying learning process. Along the way they absorb lots of information and skills for future use – for Jazzles applies phonics across subject areas they will face in their more formal schooling curriculum.

	A flexible, fun filled series of plans for each letter of the alphabet, permeated with Creative and Visual Arts so you and your students enjoy music filled, stress-free learning.
	Combines the fun, engagement and anxiety-free environment created by music, song and play into powerful early Literacy Development.
	Uses Jazzles all original music and richly alliterative songs as the foundation for hundreds of ‘across curriculum’ extension activities that blend phonemic awareness into playful activities.
	Provides everything the busy teacher, home-school teacher, bilingual teacher and day carer needs to powerfully kick start phonics/phonemic awareness for early reading and writing skills achievement.
	Assists core/cross curriculum content and skills integration.
	Simple to use – you don’t need to be a music teacher with Jazzles! All you need is a CD Player (or MP3 Player), and the Jazzles catchy, amusing and alliterative lyrics will set the stage for happy singing and playful learning.
	One of the easiest ways you can show parents and families the importance of various learning activities - - such as singing, drama, art, crafts, drama, use of percussion instruments – and how they can contribute to their children's literacy development and preschool/school success.

The Gateway to Educational Materials (GEM) provides educators with quick and easy access to lesson plans, instructional units and other educational resources, mostly freely available on the Internet! GEM is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education. Visit GEM today. CleverShow (Jazzles) is proud to be an approved member of the GEM Consortium.