Write to the Beat: Complete 14-Song Album
$19.99 for the whole 14 song album. Single songs are $1.99 in the store.
Purpose
Fourteen original songs turn the writing process, morphology, and academic vocabulary into music students remember. Each song teaches a specific framework or word part, and the album sits inside the Teach BIG store for teachers who want music in the writing block.
Fourteen original songs that turn the writing process into music students remember. The album in the Teach BIG store is Write to the Beat: Complete 14-Song Album, priced at $19.99.
Write to the Beat: Complete 14-Song Album
Fourteen songs that walk students through the writing process. $19.99 in the store. Press play to listen to a sample.
Writing process
CSI: Evidence Is on the Way
Choosing evidence, then Connect, Support, and Infer.
Every Great Essay
The opening anthem for the whole writing year.
Three Pieces to a Thesis
Building a thesis in three clean pieces.
TREES
The shape of a strong essay, from top to tail.
Leave Some TRACKS
Finding and marking text evidence, leaving TRACKS.
Deep Facts
Explaining evidence with DEEP FACTS.
Reasons or Ways
Developing ideas with reasons or ways.
Stir It Up
Making inferences, stirring the clues together.
Up My Thinking Tree
Climbing the thinking levels, up the thinking tree.
Academic Word Garden
Growing academic writing vocabulary.
Make It Stronger
Revising to make writing stronger.
Sweep It Clean
Editing, sweeping the writing clean.
Writing Process Drill
The whole writing process, drilled to a beat.
Three Rs Jingle
The conclusion, wrapped up in the Three Rs.
Big Word Detective: The Morphology Album
Prefixes, roots, and suffixes set to music. A separate 10-song album, $19.99. Press play to listen to a sample.
Prefixes
Numbers and Size
Prefixes that tell how many and how big.
Where and Which Way
Prefixes of place and direction.
No and Not
Prefixes that reverse or take away.
Roots
Words and Senses
Roots about words and the senses.
Life and Earth
Roots about living things and the earth.
People and Power
Roots about people and power.
Suffixes
People and Doers
Suffixes that name a person who does something.
States and Qualities
Suffixes that name a state or a quality.
Describers
Suffixes that describe a person, place, or thing.
