A Ram Sam Sam

A Ram Sam Sam, A Ram Sam Sam

Gooli Gooli Gooli Gooli Gooli, Ram Sam Sam

A Rafi! A Rafi!

Gooli Gooli Gooli Gooli Gooli, Ram Sam Sam

Music, Movement, and Literacy

Mark Weakland

Research Rationale

Past and present studies show…

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… educational research shows that movement and music can positively effect memory and learning …

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Upon integration of the arts into major subjects in fourteen New York elementary an secondary public schools, student behavior improved strikingly in such areas as taking risks, cooperating, solving problems, and being prepared.

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Music and language are inseparably linked as a single system in the brain

…nonverbal modalities presented in music / arts education help students with skills used in reading, writing and math…

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Emotions

• Entry point for learning

• Entry point for memory

Why Engage Emotions?• Medial brain (the limbic system)

is closely linked to memory encoding and retrieval

• More pathways reach from the limbic system to the cerebral cortex than vice-versa

• The reticular activating system (filter) can be by-passed by emotions

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Social Nature of Students

• Music and drama allow

for cooperative groupings• Drama activities speak to

students’ natural inclination to talk and socialize

• Drama activities don’t control – they channel!

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Music, movement, and drama can help to channel students with high activity levels

They allow for movement that is educational

Fun = engaging = fewer behavior problems!

Building Rhyme and RhythmTaking a Break in a Long Block

Feel the Beat

Clap Clap Clap Your Hands

There’s a Penny in My Hand

Boa Constrictor

My Hat It Has Three Corners

There’s a Penny in My Hand

There’s a penny in my hand,

It will travel through the land.

Is it here? Is it there?

It will travel everywhere!

Oh, I'm being eaten by a boa constrictor,A boa constrictor, A boa constrictor,

I'm being eaten by a boa constrictorAnd I don't like it - one bit.

Well, what do you know? It’s nibblin’ my toe.Oh gee, It’s up to my knee.Oh my, It’s up to my thigh.

Oh fiddle, It’s up to my middle.Oh heck, It’s up to my neck.

Oh, dread, It’s upmmmmmmffffffffff…

My hat, it has three corners.Three corners has my hat.

And had it not three cornersIt could never be my hat!

Teaching SkillsPhonemic Awareness

What is the Sound That Starts These Words?

What is a Word That Starts With ___?

Head and Shoulders

Teaching SkillsAlphabetic Principle

A Hunting We Will Go

Scaffolding to reading successBuilding vocabulary

Chant / Poetry

Keeping FitMike, Mike, ride the bike.

Rose, Rose, kiss your toes.

Di, Di, touch the sky.

Joe, Joe, start to row.

Lee, Lee, skate and ski.

Dennis, Dennis, play some tennis…

Make a hit by keeping fit!

All Together Now: 200 of Sonja Dunn’s best chants, Pembroke Publishers, 1999

Here Comes a SharkShark, shark, here comes a

shark!

Oh oh!Swish, swish!

Here comes a shark.He’s a big mean fish.Get out of the waterAs fast as you can.Don’t dilly dally.

Just head for land…

Little Animals, Mark Weakland

The Grand Old Duke of YorkOh, the grand old Duke of York,

He had ten thousand men

And he marched them up to the top of the hill,

And he marched them down again.

When they were up, they were up,

When they were down, they were down,

And when they were only half way up,

They were neither up nor down.

Chanting to remember

Chants for rules and information

Drop your e, add –ing

Change your y to an i and add your ending

A verb is a word, it’s an action word. You can see it, you can do it, it’s an action word!

Restate, answer, support, cha-cha-cha!

Right There, Think and Search, Author and Me

Learning information

The Elements

Silent E / T-I-O-N

Many others!

The Water Cycle

Building fluency

Poetry Re-Read

A Bug, A Bug

The Delicious Chocolate Donut

Nuh uh!

Macaroni and Cheese

Around and Around

Synthesizing informationDemonstrating comprehension

Wax Museum

Wax Museum

• Start with reading of monologues

• Move to writing of monologues

• Science, reading, social studies, etc.

Book characters

Science terms: light

Talk Show

AnnelidsAnnelids are segmented worms.

What are annelids? Everybody!

A leech is an annelid. What’s a leech?

An earthworm is an annelid. It is an annelid because it is a worm and its body has segments. Why is it an annelid?

Is a spider an annelid? Why not?

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Talk show

Host

Three to four guests

Work in teams to construct questions and answers

Practice

Present

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Tableaux

36The Industrial Revolution

Rewarding BehaviorModulating Mood

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Using Entrainment• Of physical bodies, body cycles, brainwaves

and behavior

• Entrainment to slow pulses=relaxation

• Can be used to decrease discipline problems or change the mood of the classroom

Rewarding BehaviorModulating Mood

DJ Friday

Room transition

Mama Don’t Allow