Why am I including cheers, chants, raps, and poetry in a site about music?
Chanting has many of the benefits of song:
         It uses rhythm and rhyme in an enjoyable way.
         It provides patterns that can make learning easier.
         It builds children's confidence in oral language.
         It can promote a sense of community, which is conducive to learning.
         It provides a change of pace and mood to improve student motivation.
         It offers opportunities for repeated readings, which build fluency.
         It can serve as a writing prompt, offering students the chance to write new verses.
Kids love it!
Chants, raps, cheers, and poetry can be performed anywhere, even if your voice is as bad as mine! I encourage you to incorporate chanting into your lessons, and see how it builds energy for learning.

Special Feature

Sonja Dunn on "The How and Why of Chanting"
          Just What Is A Chant?
          Chanting: A Springboard into Learning
          Dramatic Possibilities With Chants
          Encouraging Students to Write Their Own Chants

These chants and raps song lyrics are available from a variety of albums:

Math Chants and Raps
          2's, 2's, I Got a Beat for You (Multiplication Rap)– Earth Tone
          Action Fraction– Hap Palmer
          Angles– Mary Perrine:  Believers and Achievers
          Circles 'Round (Radius, Diameter, Circumference, Pi)– Mary Perrine
          Learn the 7's Right Now (Multiplication Rap)– Earth Tone
          Median Dance– Mary Perrine and Sue Herby:  Believers and Achievers
          Polygon Rap– Mary Perrine: Believers and Achievers
          Teaching "Mode" and "Mean"– Mary Perrine: Believers and Achievers

Science Chants and Raps
          Do the Dino Rap– Jack Grunsky
          Science Is– Tickle Tune Typhoon

Language Arts: Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling Raps
          Alphabet– Étienne
          Around the Classroom– Étienne
          Let's PPPPPP-- Punctuate!– Katherine Dines and Rachel Sumner
          Mispeled Wirdz (Misspelled Words)– Étienne
          Question Marks– Felice Green
          Question Words– Étienne
          The Vowel Song– Étienne

Chants and Raps that Teach other Curricular Subjects         
          Birthdays– Sonja Dunn
          Boom Chicka Boom– Traditional/Allards
          Brush Your Teeth– Traditional/Raffi
          Cleano– Sonja Dunn
          The Computer Rap– Sonja Dunn
          Cool Cooperation– James Oglesby
          Dealing With Feelings Rap– Paulette Meier 
          Doctor, Doctor– Skip West
          A Fly and a Flea– Traditional/Hartmann
          Goodbye Song Chant– Janet Sclaroff
          The Humpty Dumpty Sidewalk Chant
          Street Beat– Jack Grunsky
          Wave Hilow!– Katherine Dines
          Weekly Rap– Hap Palmer 

Action Chants
          Going on a Bear Hunt– Traditional/Tickle Tune Typhoon       
          Hello, My Name Is Joe– Traditional/Allards
          Loose Tooth– Peter and Ellen Allard  
          Tarzan– Dr. Jean
          Tooty Ta– Dr. Jean