Vibrante Press is a teacher authored and teacher run press dedicated to exciting and unique musical and visual aids for the ESL and foreign language classroom. Author and creator Lonnie Dai Zovi started writing when her own child was in her pre-school Spanish class and she had to make up her own songs, games, stories and more to teach effectively. Since the children and other teachers loved her curriculum so much, she decided to hire artists and professional musicians and market it…. Vibrante Press had begun. Throughout her over 30 years of continued teaching of ESL, Spanish and Bilingual classes in elementary, middle school, high school and college, Lonnie continues to find educational voids to fill, music and chants to produce, pictures, stories, games and more great materials to create for her classroom and yours.

Vibrante Press advocates implementing various methodologies for differentiated instruction by activating all the multiple intelligences. By using many of our exciting music, pictures, art or other materials for ESL and language learning,(Spanish, French, German, Italian, Arabic) not only will your students learn more, they will also satisfy the national ESL and foreign language standards. Our language learning materials are primarily:

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  • Music for learning Spanish - Vibrante Press offers both traditional Mexican and Latin American music, (Mariachi y Más, Canciones Infantiles) and Spanish songs and chants for the classroom accompanied with traditional tango,vallenato, and others) for teaching grammar, vocabulary, and syntax in a totally fun and exciting way.

  
  

  • Music for learning French - Cantiques, Rhythmes et Rimes has Cajun, zydeco, zouk, Haitian and other Caribbean rhythms to teach standard French to children through adults.

  
  

  • Music for learning Italian - Canti, Ritmi e Rime is a collection of songs for the Italian classroom.

  
  

  • Music for learning German – Gesang, Rhythmes und Reime uses the music of the Alps, Germany and more to teach Geman through music to students of all ages.

  
  

  • Music for learning Arabic – Musical Arabic is an arrangement of very beautiful, lively and great songs for the Arabic language classroom. Arabic students of all ages learn Arabic through these musical chants and have fun while learning!

  
  

  • Music for learning English – There are many songs available to use in the ESL, ESOL or ELL classroom, however, the musical and jazzy chants from the unique Rockin’ Rhythms and Rhymes are really different and more effective than the rest. Children through adults learn well through these great musical chants.

  
  

     Art

  
  

  • Mexican and Spanish Art - Accent On Art is a book written in Spanish that teaches about the lives and works of Spanish artists ( El Greco, Velásquez, Goya, Picasso and Dalí) and the Mexican artists. (Posada, Orozco, Rivera, Siquieros, and Kahlo). There’s also a coloring book of the Mexican and Spanish artists for added enrichment, artist postcards and artist puppets.

  • French Art- Artful Instruction in two volumes is a workbook for teachers or students to further their study of French art in a fun way.

  
  

     Pictures for Language Learning

Perfect pictures for:

•  bingo games

• flashcards

• TPRS visuals

• language learning games

• Picture Stories

• Reading with pictures, or rhebus readings

• Picture based Social Studies for ESL, ELD, ELL

   ESL/ELL materials

• Materials for low literacy or pre-literacy

• Jazz-y chants for great ESL language acquisition (Rockin’ Rhythms and Rhymes)

• Basic Thousand Words list and exercises

• Include Me Series for scaffolding and differentiating instruction Social Studies and Science for ELL and ESL students in mainstreamed classes who need to experience academic success.(also good for Special Education or regular ed students)Closes the achievement gap.

• “True” Ghost Stories - Historically Based Stories for Language Development, a high interest reader

  Plays and Skits 

• Very short Spanish, French, English or German plays good for actors, reader’s theater, or (finger or other) puppets

• Short dialogues

Bilingual or Dual language materials

• Legends – Folkloric stories for all ages in Spanish

• Traditional Music, Mariachi music with exercises for improving or learning Spanish, traditional Spanish children’s songs

• Plays and skits

• Mexican art

• Jazz-y musical chants for ESL

• American Ghost stories that also teach American History

• Navajo materials

• Haitian - Creole materials