The focus of Learning with Childrens Melodies/Aprende con Melodas Infantiles is to recognize the need to transition children of Hispanic heritage into an English-speaking school system by building a classroom culture that not only recognizes the bilingual reality of its students but uses the language difference of the students as a vehicle to create linguistic empowerment. Each of the lessons is based on childrens songs from various ethnic cultures that make up the United States of America, including Latin American traditional songs. Literacy is accomplished more rapidly if reading materials have cultural relevance. If the protagonists of a story are Hispanic, the Hispanic students will be more attentive to the lesson. In the first lesson song, Los Pollitos (the little chicks), there are personifications of children with attributes of all children. The embodiment of childlike personality traits into the little chicks catches the interest of students that are English-speaking and Spanish-speaking. Repetition of vocabulary learned in the morning circle and in the other learning centers throughout the day will increase retention. Happy learning to you and your class!

IN ENGLISH"One, Two, Three Friends" is a traditional children's song in the Dominican Republic, used in the basic levels of primary education for its effective result in memorizing numbers giving the kids the ability to count from one to ten and backward from ten to one. This song is played using the ten fingers of the hand counting the number of fingers that the song indicates, raising them when the numbers go in the order of one to ten, and closing them when they go in reverse. This song is found on page 38 of the book "Doña Semana--Canciones Infantiles Tradicionales Educativas", the volume one of the collections "Canciones Infantiles Tradicionales Dominicanas" (Traditional Dominican Children's Songs) by Maria Aduke Alabi (Find it on Amazon). Scan the QR code and sing along while listening to the music.EN ESPANOL "Uno, Dos, Tres Amigos" es una canción infantil tradicional en la Republica Dominicana, utilizada en los niveles básicos de educación primaria por su efectivo resultado en la memorización de los números dándoles la habilidad de contar del uno al diez y hacia atrás del diez al uno. Esta canción se juega usando los diez dedos de la mano contando la cantidad de dedos que va indicando la canción, levantándolos cuando los números van en el orden del uno al diez y cerrándolos cuando van en reversa. Esta canción se encuentra en la página 38 del libro "Doña Semana--Canciones Infantiles Tradicionales Educativas", tomo uno de la colección "Canciones Infantiles Tradicionales Dominicanas" de Maria Aduke Alabi (Encuéntralo en Amazon).Escanea el QR código y canta la canción mientras escuchas la música.

The all-time classic picture book, from generation to generation, sold somewhere in the world every 30 seconds! Have you shared it with a child or grandchild in your life? For the first time, Eric Carle’s The Very Hungry Caterpillar is now available in e-book format, perfect for storytime anywhere. As an added bonus, it includes read-aloud audio of Eric Carle reading his classic story. This fine audio production pairs perfectly with the classic story, and it makes for a fantastic new way to encounter this famous, famished caterpillar.

In this toe-tapping jazz tribute, the traditional "This Old Man" gets a swinging makeover, and some of the era's best musicians take center stage. The tuneful text and vibrant illustrations bop, slide, and shimmy across the page as Satchmo plays one, Bojangles plays two . . . right on down the line to Charles Mingus, who plays nine, plucking strings that sound "divine." Easy on the ear and the eye, this playful introduction to nine jazz giants will teach children to count--and will give them every reason to get up and dance! Includes a brief biography of each musician.

An invaluable tool for learners of Portuguese, this Frequency Dictionary provides a list of the 5000 most commonly used words in the language. Based on a twenty-million-word collection of Portuguese (taken from both Portuguese and Brazilian sources), which includes both written and spoken material, this dictionary provides detailed information for each of the 5000 entries, including the English equivalent, a sample sentence, and an indication of register and dialect variation. Users can access the top 5000 words either through the main frequency listing or through an alphabetical index. Throughout the frequency listing there are also thrity thematically-organized ‘boxed’ lists of the top words from a variety of key topics such as sports, weather, clothing and relations. An engaging and highly useful resource, A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese will enable students of all levels to get the most out of their study of Portuguese vocabulary. Former CD content is now available to access at www.routledge.com/9780415419970 as support material. Designed for use by corpus and computational linguists it provides the full text in a format that researchers can process and turn into suitable lists for their own research work.