Chants and Short Stories

The aim of the study was to investigate the effectiveness of using chants/ songs and short stories in developing third primary graders' English communicative skills in Damietta governmental schools. In order to answer the questions of the study, the researcher adopted the quasi experimental approach. The participants of the study consisted of (50) pupils from Dr. Ahmed Zwail primary school in New Damietta city. The chants/songs and short stories were used with the study group in the second term of the academic school year ( 2014 – 2015 ). An oral communication test of six questions with ( 30 ) items was designed to be used as a pre -posttest. The study indicated that there are statistically significant differences in mean scores of communicative skills test in favor of the post application. It also showed that there were statistically significant differences in mean scores of each of the communication skills in favor of the post application. In the light of these results, the study recommended the necessity of using children chants/songs and short stories in teaching and learning.