This new and improved music set contains songs for all kids ranging from infants to elementary age.
CDs: What is the focus of the music CDs in this set?
Both CDs are packed with speech and language tasks from simple consonant-vowel and single word practices to more complex verbal exercises such as understanding and answering questions, making comments, recognizing environmental sounds, and sequencing steps to daily routines. The "Rocking and Talking" CD is unique to the entire KET collection of CDs in that the songs are derived from favorite rock and roll tunes transformed into fun kids' songs with kid-friendly lyrics. These CDs are exciting, engaging, and filled with ways to enhance a child's speech and language skills.
Conversation Station songs include:
1. Cheese and Macaroni - Foods
2. Slide - Vocabulary
3. Bananas - Foods
4. Brush - Concepts of same/different
5. Go - Vehicles/"Go" imitation
6. Round We Go - Interaction song
7. I Dressed Myself - Clothes/storytelling
8. I Love - L sound, common objects
9. What Happened? - "What" questions
10. No Way - Yes/No questions
11. Scrambled Eggs - Four-step sequence
12. Uh-Oh - Vocabulary
Activities For Conversation Station CD (PDF)
Rocking and Talking Songs include:
1. Ball, Ball, Ball - Interactive song (A derivative work based on "Rock Around the Clock Tonight" by Jimmy De Knight and Max Friedman)
2. Singing A Song - Syllable imitation/actions (A derivative work based on "Land of a Thousand Dances" by Chris Kenner)
3. I Hear - Environmental sounds (A derivative work based on "Bad Moon Rising" by John C. Fogerty)
4. Ha Ha Hiding - Hiding game ( A derivative work based on "Don't You Just Know It" by Huey P. Smith)
5. Alphabeat - Foods/beginning letter sounds (A derivative work based on "Rockin Robin" by Jimmie Thomas)
6. Help Me Mama - Asking for help (A derivative work based on "Help Me Rhonda" by Brian Wilson and Mike Love)
7. What's That? - Common objects (A derivative work based on "Skip to My Lou" - Author unknown)
8. Where Did My Shoes Go? - Searching game (A derivative song based on "Why Do Fools Fall in Love" by Frankie Lyman and Morris Levy)
9. Snowman - Two-word phrase imitation (A derivative work based on "Soul Man" by David Porter and Issac Hayes)
10. Stop At The Door - Standing in line (A derivative work based on "Stop in the Name of Love" by Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier, and Eddie Holland)
11. Instrumental of What's That?
12. Instrumental of Alphabeat
Objectives & Activities For Rocking and Talking CD (PDF)
Sample music for each set.
Manual:
The 12 page manual included in this set describes what is included in Set 2 and gives many activities and objectives for using each song whether you are a parent or a professional working with young children.
CD-ROM: What is included in the CD-ROM of Picture Sheets and Other Materials?
The CD-ROM contains:
1. Welcome and general suggestions for the pictures on the CD-ROM.
2. Over 250 song sheets in color and black & white:
a. Small Follow-Along Sheets
b. Large Follow-Along Sheets
c. Activity Sheets
d. Flashcards
e. Song Request Sheets
3. Objectives and Activities for each song from both music CDs (the same objectives and activities that are printed in the manual).
4. Lyrics to all songs in this set.
5. Thematic/Speech goals for specific speech and language practice - In this section the songs have been grouped according to very specific speech and language goals including common vocabulary, categories of objects, individual speech sounds, and grammatical structures.
6. "Makes Me Want to Sing - Improving Your Child's Speech and Language Skills through Music" - This article gives an overview of the importance of using music with young children. It also expands on the general suggestions for how to help children learn through music.
7. A copy of the manual.
Kids' Express Train Set 2 KET505 $39.99
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