Jazzles How-to and Why Videos

Developing Reading and Oral Fluency Children perform with purpose to animated songs played on IWB. Using technology and performance, every child is a singing star, activating oral language and intuitively learning to read the 'karaoke' style text in the Jazzles Matching Captions.
Happy Children - Happy Learning Results! Teacher Diane Petersen, of Finley-Sharon Elementary, N.Dakota explains why Jazzles Voconics songs promote reading by creating happy children, happy learning and happy results! Singing the Jazzles songs creates a happy sense of community and belonging. Practicing oral language is a joy not a drag!
Behind the Lyrics Diane Petersen demonstrates reading skills of 'Left-to-Right Tracking' and 'One-to-One Correspondence' using Jazzles LYRICS Page. Children happily sing along, following the words in printed lyrics with their finger and tracking with their eyes.
Dancing and Singing Developing Oral Language Action packed fun as child sing, jump, jog and dance to the Jazzles animations with Matching Captions. This action/dance/drama rapidly develops oral language and meaning (comprehension) in synchronization with large motor skill development.
Creating Personal Dictionaries Using Words Familiarized from Jazzles Lyrics Observe in awe as children happily write familiar words into their own individual dictionary they have been actively using in a song they've learned - personalizing learning Dictionary skills.
The Letter-Sound Role of Jazzles A-Z Alliterative Lyrics Diane Pedersen, an experienced teacher, demonstrates how excitedly children independently highlight words they identify in printed sentences that they have orally practiced by singing along to the Jazzles Voconics animations with Matching Captions.
Developing Print Awareness using Jazzles Lyrics and Music In this video, Diane Pedersen, an experienced N. Dakota teacher, uses Jazzles worksheets to demonstrate the Beginning Reading Skills of 'One to One Correspondence', Tracking 'Left to Right' and 'Return Sweep'.
4 Year Olds Show Off Their Early Reading Talents After just a few weeks using Jazzles Animations, a 4 year boy and girl in an Ohio Pre-K shows off their early reading skills! In this video shot January 2011, the children are tracking words one by one and even self-correcting.
Flexible School Lesson Plans North Dakota teacher, Diane Pedersen, talks about the joy of using Jazzles Voconics with its flexible lesson plans and song themed literacy development. With Jazzles, says Diane, there is so much to choose from, more interesting for children and teachers!
Learning Letter-Sounds with Multisensory Craft Children will love you when you give them tactile, alliterative craft experiences that develop creativity and small motor skills with a touch of math (area and patterns). Collage becomes a fun phonemics awareness activity when the materials used start with the sound of the letter they are collaging. Jazzles Lesson Plans provide you with suggestions for adding taste and smell to enhance the joy of learning.
Developing Reading, Writing and Small Motor Skills Teacher Diane Petersen demonstrates how to use the Jazzles Voconics printable ACTIVITY Pages to develop reading skills using printed familiar song lyrics text while also developing small motor skills by cutting, pasting, tracing and coloring.
Play-based Learning Delivering All Six Big Ideas of Literacy You will always have children requesting Jazzles 'Terrifying Tigers' musical animation song. Plenty of kinesthetic drama when children take turns being trees and tigers or avoiding the erupting volcano in Volatile Volcanos while dancing to Hawaiian music. Sounds like fun but really it is using singing and dance as the emotional hook to engage students in learning routine literacy skills.
Imagination and Mime Developing Oral Language Children love miming the Jazzles Voconics 'Don't Dig Dog' animated song imitating the naughty dog's digging actions! Or being one of the 'Orange Octopus' scary outstretched arms while others swim around them 'scared' of being caught! Great ways to develop augmented/ expressive and receptive (listening) aspects of oral language.