This curriculum creation is designed to supplement the Word Generation (WordGen) vocabulary program for middle school students. It adds songs and chants of the weekly focus words for use as a mnemonic device to remember and synthesize word meaning. The WordGen curriculum is heavily based on reading and writing and English Language Learners (ELLs) are at a disadvantage when tasked with learning and understanding academic vocabulary due to the short length of time for mastery (Cummins, 1999; Collier, 1987; Thompson, 2017). This curriculum is inspired by the desire to appeal to ELLs who would respond favorably to music or kinesthetic modalities in the language classroom. Using music to teach language is found to be a positive way to engage students and facilitate a low-stakes method to learning and practicing language (Bialls, et al., 2021; Chen, 2020l; Landesman Scheckel, 2020; Li & Brand, 2009; Rukholm, 2015). The first two chapters of WordGen have been supplemented with songs and chants/raps for use in ELL and general content classrooms
