The Grammar Songs were written as a result of requests from pre-school teachers and staff when I presented my rap formats from That Crazy English: Raps and Songs for Teaching English Literacy. Although participants enjoyed learning the raps and were eager to use them in their classrooms, they mentioned that they loved to sing with their students also. Because many attendees requested more music, I thought it was time to give those raps a melody. As in all my songs, the melody is simple. In the case of the grammar raps, the melody copies the upward lilt of the question, and the downward cadence of the answers. Once you understand the sequence, add whichever verbs and extra details that you like. The grammar raps and songs are only a small sample of how you can get your students speaking fluently in full sentences in a fun atmosphere. Singing or keeping a steady beat while speaking the raps, allows the conversational rhythm of the English language to become natural and clear. I wrote my latest song, Talk to Your Baby, in honor of the research of Betty Hart and Todd Risley. I first discovered their work in 2014 through a BBC news article entitled Providence Talks, which described a program to encourage parents to talk to their babies from the time they were born, based on the findings of Hart and Risley. The thorough longitudinal study described in Differences in the Everyday Experience of Young American Children (1995) and The Social World of Children Learning to Talk (1999) concluded that the amount of talk along with the kind of talk made a difference in levels of literacy. This was demonstrated when the children were tested later in third grade. Research found that the positive, caring connection between child and parent while conversing about a myriad of topics just for fun, is crucial for learning in school, regardless of the parents' socio-economic status or education. The children of parents who talked to their children only when necessary to accomplish a task or to alter their child's behavior, did not have that same bond, and didn't fare as well in the third grade assessments. Up to the age of four, children of talkative parents had heard approximately 45 million words; most children in the middle had heard around 26 million words; and the children of parents who spoke little, had only heard around 13 million words (p. 198 from Meaningful Differences). This points to a huge word gap, which I believe can be altered when parents are aware of their role in their child's learning to speak and become literate. No matter what the level of education, parents can talk about the world around them, in the language they know best, building a bond and vocabulary to give their children the gift of social language – a connection to the world, to people, and to learning. Talk to Your Baby is a gift to all who work with babies and young children learning to find their unique voices. As the refrain states, "Talk to your baby often, and your baby will talk to you! ¡Habla con tu bebé a menudo, y tu bebé te hablará tambien!