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In my mentorship I work with kids, last week I watched and assisted a Choir one class with children who were five through eight. Before they started singing the normal warm up songs, Mr. Billy (the teacher) had them sing songs off a chart with sounds so they can properly pronounce things.
He had one volunteer read the sound, one read the title, one read the song lyrics, and then they all sang the song together when i turned on the music. This was very encouraging for the kids because they felt as though they had taught and led the class with the song.
For example a sound would be "ake" a student might say "ace" and they would be corrected then another student would say the sound correctly and the class would repeat, and even though some got it wrong they got a chance to correct themselves afterwards.
It was nice working with the kids and seeing how happy they were to be able to sing the song correctly because they first learned the sounds. Though all the kids did not want to participate at the beginning by the end of the year all of the students will have mastered these sounds and songs, and will happily repeat them.