The Jazzles program uses singing, music, visual and tactile resources to teach basic sight words AND target letters individually. An important feature is how Jazzles uses fun creative arts to link with content strategies to help children understand in different ways what they are reading!

These Easter Egg related coloring, collage and extension activity pages are just some of the ways I integrate with the Jazzles 'eE' song. You can add simple visual cues to enhance further the value of these activities for ESL students...as described below:-

Step 1. Print Out This eE Coloring Page

(Source: ebook of coloring pages on the Jazzles CD-CDROM.)

Print, Photocopy This Coloring Page This is a story about an Extraordinary Easter Egg .... as big as an Elephant!! Use this coloring page to discuss and teach the meaning of all the eE words in the picture and in the song lyrics shown below. Children love fantasy! What more fantastic than an Easter Egg this ENORMOUS! ...It'll take A Week To Eat! Click here to download free all 5 printable Easter Activity Pages in PDF file. --- Color, decorate, paint or collage this picture! --- Just click picture above to open a second pane featuring a bigger version that you can print, legally photocopy and distribute to your students. Enlarge to U.S. paper size B - 11 x 17 - (or A3 metric) OR LARGER for group or class work.  Play the Song 56k modem: Est.3 mins.

Your own experience tells you that it is easier for children to achieve word recognition than to understand how individual words work within a sentence or text. To achieve natural comprehension you require strategies to help - and motivate - children to actively engage in thinking about words within the context of what the author meant when the text was written -- and -- how the individuals words inter-weave to form an understanding of the whole.

Step 2. Print Out This eE Song Lyric Page.

(Source: ebook of song lyric pages on the Jazzles CD-CDROM.)

Print Out, Photocopy This Song Lyrics Page Lyrics as follows: "How extraordinary, it would be to see - an Easter Egg as big as an Elephant. How extraordinary, how extraordinary - it would be! And it would take - About a week to eat!" When printed, use the highlighted letters to focus on all words beginning with 'eE'.  Click here to download free all 5 printable Easter Activity Pages in PDF file. Just click picture above to open a second pane featuring a bigger version that you can print, legally photocopy and distribute to your students. Enlarge to U.S. paper size B - 11 x 17 - (or A3 metric) OR LARGER for group or class work.

Note: There is a Jazzles song for each letter of the alphabet PLUS songs for the order of the alphabet. All of the Jazzles' songs are full of alliteration and rhyme -- mixed to a wide variety of musical styles, of upbeat original music and rhythm that children (and teachers) love. The songs include lots of humor and word play. Jazzles requires no musical experience or singing expertise. Just sing-along to this 48 minute musical CD with its two eBooks of printable (photocopies allowed) read-along lyric sheets and illustrated picture talk coloring pages - above- to help getting reading ready - or - for ESL student, to acquire basic English language skills. Ideal for classes combining varied levels of English proficiency.

Step 3. Print Out This eE Collage Page

(Source: From the Soft-Cover, Printed Jazzles Alphabet Collage Book)

Print Out, Photocopy this Collage Page Using glue, collage inside the 'e' with as many materials beginning with "E" as you can think of -- Use crushed egg shells; Use earth, Use elastic bands, Use ribbon or paper in colors like eggshell, ebony, emerald green, Draw small Easter eggs with wax crayons, then paint over in edicol dye wash. ...Enormous Fun !! Note: Encourage your children to completely collage the whole area of the eE letter while singing the Extraordinary Egg song on the Jazzles CD. Its Latin Music! Your children will love it! Click here to download free all 5 printable Easter Activity Pages in PDF file. Just click the picture above to open a second pane featuring a bigger version that you can print, legally photocopy and distribute to your students. Enlarge to U.S. paper size B - 11 x 17 - (or A3 metric) OR LARGER for group or class work.   NOTE: You could also use this collage page for World Environment Day - children love playing with earth - get them to glue earth on the 'e' and then get discussion going about about elephants and the environment!

Let your students have tactile fun learning letter shapes using Jazzles Collage! Creative arts are an ideal way to develop early reading skills -- while also developing fine motor skills! With this 32 page Jazzles crafts, arts collage book, children can have fun while learning sound-letter relationships. Research shows that linking letters with sounds is the single most important step in early reading readiness. The Jazzles 'Alphabet Collage' book is full of visual and tactile arts and crafts experiences to help children understand and recall letter shapes.

Another Creative Extension ... Make An Enormous Word Bank ... List All The 'e' Words from 'e' Song and More! Use the collage picture for the Letter 'e' as the head of the a word bank. Hang on a streamer from a ceiling or wall. Visual Arts - ESL students have fun learning letter shapes using Jazzles Collage Tactile experiences, such as collage, add an extra dimension to a child’s learning experience about letter shapes. Make a Word Bank Using the Collage Letter Page for 'e E'

Step 4. Print Out These eE Activity Pages

(Source: From the Soft-Cover, Printed Jazzles Alphabet Activities Book.)

Print Out, Photocopy these two Alphabet Activity Pages Cutting, pasting, coloring, and tracing provide children with practical kinaesthetic experience in the use of each letter in a variety of reading and writing experiences to further develop their understanding of sound-letter relationships. This example is like a jig-saw egg puzzle. Children cut out the jig-saw egg pieces and, using glue, put them back together on the relevant areas in the top page. Click here to download free all 5 printable Easter Activity Pages in PDF file. Just click both top and bottom pictures to open second panes  featuring bigger versions you can print, legally photocopy and distribute to your students. Enlarge to U.S. paper size B - 11 x 17 - (or A3 metric) OR LARGER for group or class work. Picture below NOT to scale. PDF file better quality -higher resolution.

Every Jazzles Activity page is different in concept - some alphabet activities pages require children to draw their own pictures to match text, some use labeling, others use match word to picture techniques, some are match initial letters. Unlike most activity books, Jazzles has a wide variety of techniques to maintain interest and stimulate multiple intelligences. Children should be encouraged to creatively add to each 'completed' sheet before finishing. For example, draw some zoo animals in the background of the 'Z' activity sheet. Or, on the 'O' sheet, paint the water around the octopus. For the 'D' worksheet, suggest using glue and soil to collage the garden areas. Just use your imagination and you can easily extend these activities!

Step 5. Print Out This Dictionary Page To Create A List of Learnt 'e E' Words

(Source: From the Soft-Cover, Printed Jazzles 'Create A Dictionary'  Book.)

Print, Photocopy This Create-A-Dictionary Page The best way to organize this activity is as follows: Having learnt the song, list the words of the focus letter song on a chalkboard, colorful paper spreadsheet, overhead projector or white board. Ask your children to help arrange the words in alphabetical order. Now they can record the words on the appropriate dictionary page. NOTE: As your children's dictionary skills develop, you can introduce strict alphabetical order, explaining how to arrange the words by the second and third letter (etc.). Click here to download free all 5 printable Easter Activity Pages in PDF file. Click this picture to open a second pane featuring a bigger version that you can print, legally photocopy and distribute to your students. Enlarge to U.S. paper size B - 11 x 17 - (or A3 metric) OR LARGER for group or class work.

It is important for children learning to read, write and spell, that they create their own personal collection of most loved and commonly used words. Arranging words into their own dictionary creates a valuable resource children can use - while developing a variety of other dictionary skills essential to their future learning.

With the Jazzles 'Create A Dictionary', each letter of the alphabet has its own Dictionary page plus there are 8 pages for gathering 'theme related' words.

If you teach reading with phonics, you will have no cases of "non-readers..."

...Rudolf Flesch, author of "Why Johnny Can’t Read"

"Choose songs, poems, or chants that incorporate repetition, rhyming, rhythm, humor, and word play..."says...
Tennessee ESL Resource Guide Strategies for Mainstream Teachers

Jazzles --- Language Rich Lesson Plans ---

"As art and life are inseparable, art should be an integral part of the language learning classroom. Provide many opportunities for students to experience and talk about art and to develop fine motor skills and art vocabulary as they develop concepts of line, form, space and color. Use drawing to introduce new vocabulary and structures, and encourage students to use drawing to aid them in communication when they don't have the words."

Source: Tennessee ESL Resource Guide Strategies for Mainstream Teachers