BBC
Bbc Radio2: Sold on Song
If you love classic pop and rock songs and performers, you'll want to visit this site. Includes background information and audio, a glossary, a guide to songwriting styles, songwriting tips, music quizzes, interviews, and so much more....
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University of Dayton: Paul Laurence Dunbar Website
This resource provides information about Paul Laurence Dunbar.
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Forefront Publishers: Esl Through Music
A wonderful resource for second language and ESL teachers interested in developing their students' language skills through song. It offers many ready-made ESL musical lesson plans, an annotated bibliography of songbooks and audio...
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Forefront Publishers: Esl Through Music
A wonderful resource for second language and ESL teachers interested in developing their students' language skills through song. It offers many ready-made ESL musical lesson plans, an annotated bibliography of songbooks and audio...
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Vocalist
A general site for anyone interested in singing. Contains free online singing lessons and articles for vocalists related to singing plus other useful information. Resources for everyone-even kids online music games.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Song Writing
This lesson plan engages students in writing lyrics to songs. Students will use free musical software to aid students as they put their lyrics to a tune and tempo.
Utah Education Network
Uen: K Act. 02: Name Games
This lesson engages learners in many word play activities associated with students' names. Learners will participate in songs, games, and other phonemic awareness activities associated with names of students.
University of Houston
University of Houston: Lyric Poem
Explains what a lyric poem is and gives examples in modern culture. Discusses why lyric poetry is appealing, how its quality is judged, some different definitions, and how it has evolved over time. RL.9-10.5 text structure effects
American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise
Jewish Virtual Library: The Life Story of Al Jolson
Contains a biography about the life of the late entertainer, Al Jolson (1886-1950.
ESL4kids
The Efl Playhouse: Songs for Young Learners
ESL chants,fingerplays, games and songs for the young learners. These fun activities will help students acquire new vocabulary and drill listening/speaking skills.
British Council
British Council: Learn English Kids: The Ballad of Lisa the Lemur
Listen and follow along to learn about lemurs, their habitat, and the dangers to their habitat.
British Council
British Council: Learn English Kids: The Pirates Song
Listen to a song about pirates and read along. Do the puzzle and print out an activity sheet that not only uses pirate vocabulary, but is also an anagram activity.
British Council
British Council: Learn English Kids: Ten Little Airplanes
Listen to a counting song and print off the lyrics to follow along. A fun way to review counting and numbers with English language learners and/or beginning readers.
British Council
Learn English Kids: The Leaves on the Trees
Listen to a song about how trees change throughout the seasons. Do the matching activity and print off an activity that sees how well you can follow directions.
Irelands Eye
Irelands eye.com: Irish Dance Steps
IrelandsEye.com offers excellent instructions on the Irish Dance. Seven basic steps to learn.
Vocabulary.com
Merle Haggard (1937 2016) Tribute List
This site contains a list of 12 words from the songs of country musician, Merle Haggard (1937-2016). Teachers can digitally assign this list to their students to reinforce the spellings, pronunciations, and meanings of these words.
PBS
Pbs: Continental Harmony
PBS presents several activities and lesson plans that cover the concepts of identifying different forms of music, learning about musical imagery, writing in response to music, and creating lyrics. The Sound Lounge has many interactive...
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Musical English Lessons
Learn English vocabulary and grammar through songs from a wide range of famous pop artists from the Beatles and Elvis to contemporary standouts like Avil Lavigne, Good Charlotte, and James Blunt. Find an exercise by grammar or vocabulary...
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David Holt: The Roots of Mountain Music
This is a short history of the major influences that have combined to create mountain music, one of which is minstrel music. Provides a good decription of minstrel music in general. Includes names and descriptions of specific songs,...
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The Artist Al Jolson
This site details Al Jolson's musical career. Check it out for some interesting information about the artist.
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Alphasongs: Lyrics and Activities
AlphaSongs song lyrics--for teaching the alphabet--feature suggested activities to enhance your students' learning experience in conjunction with an optional CD.
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The Virtual Vine: The Wheels on the Bus, Unit
A fellow teacher has put together a cross-curricular unit for the song "The Wheels on the Bus." There are lots of games, and project ideas to get students excited about learning.
University of Toronto (Canada)
University of Toronto: Selected Poetry of Stephen C. Foster
This website provides selected poems (song lyrics) of Stephen Foster, along with a brief summary of his life and career.