English as a Singing Language

I finally got around to reading the article Jackie Lyall (the friend hwo urged me to apply for a job at CCSF when it was called "community college"), "Gainesville teacher uses songs to teach grammar," an article that seemed behind the times to me since I'd been doing that for so long and in recent years so unsuccessfully.  But I see that this fifth-grade teacher, Melissa Corbett, contrasts greatly to me because she is successful and well-received by her students, who don't blog "And she makes you sing with her."    Also--and this is a big difference--she writes her own melodies, too, not just new words to old melodies in the public domain.  (That was done by Uwe Kind in Tune in to English back in the 1980s, and I was changing words for Tongan children in the early 1970's, when I gave them new words for "12 Days of Christmas.")

So check it out:  GrammarSongs.com by Melissa on YouTube, where just yesterday Efren and I created an account and were trying to get Dmitry's 2 GB file to a smaller size.