Literacy and Music Part 1 Webinar Handout
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Music and Literacy
Part 1
Denise Gagne, June 15, 2022
Sessions that will target literacy
- Engage Early Learners (Denise and Artie)
- Singing: The Heart of the Program (Artie)
- All Things Percussion
- Music Theory that’s FUN!
- Good Choral Singing (Greg)
- Movement Fun, Games, Dances
- Create and Perform on Recorder
- How the Heck Can I Teach as a Music Teacher
Teaching music and musical concepts is my primary focus.
Teaching literacy and language skills is the classroom teacher’s job, but we can and should support the teaching of literacy within our music programs.
6/15/22
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Music IS Literacy
Children who can keep the beat have improved language.
Reading a text more than once is a proven strategy to improve reading fluency. What better way than to learn a song?
In music, children practice discrimination between pitches, types of voices, high/low, loud/quiet.
Decoding symbols, letters, words, and sentences, visual focus, and visual memory are part of music and.
Choral reading, repeated reading, echo reading, and song reading are strategies to develop prosody. Learning songs improves fluency in language!
Fingerplays, chants, and action songs are important tools to help children develop fluency and rhythm in language. Children learn new vocabulary, comprehension, and fine motor skills as they show with their hands what the words mean.
Songs teach many concepts: alphabet, counting, cultures, basic skills, and more!
Why Use Music?
Rhythm, Rhyme and Melody
Provide an organizational structure to facilitate the encoding of information.
A review of the literature indicates that memory and recall improve when lyric and song are integrated as a learning strategy.
Let’s Prove it!
Denise will say a part, and ask you to say it back. (Is a more effective strategy to do our best with Zoom)
Miss Polly…
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Let’s Prove it!
- Denise will sing it – adding melody and movement (and repetition)
- Now, how much do you remember?
- Miss Polly…
Concepts
Cs =
Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff Gg Hh Ii Jj Kk Ll Mm
Nn Oo Pp Qq Rr Ss Tt Uu Vv Ww Xx Yy Zz
Alligator Alarm
Alligator Al lived in a swamp in Florida. Alligator Al was a very big alligator, and he was always hungry. Al the animals in the swamp were afraid of him. When Alligator Al was awake, none of the animals could walk through the swamp or swim in the river. The animals kept asking, “What should we do?”
The animals discovered that Alligator Al took a nap every afternoon. They asked the ants in the anthill nearby to keep watch and sound an alarm when he woke up. The plan worked! Finally, the animals had a time when they could swim and walk through the swamp.
The ants kept watch on Alligator Al, and when he stopped snoring and awoke, they sounded the alarm!
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Long Letter A
When Letter A is long, it says its name, “A, A.”
When Letter A is long, it says its name, “A, A.”
When Letter A is long, it says its name out loud and strong.
When Letter A is long, it says its name, “A, A”
Short Letter A
Short Letter A says, “a a a, a a a, a a a”
Short Letter A says, “a a a,” like Alligator Al.
Alligator alarm! Ah!
Alligator alarm! Ah!
Alligator Al’s awake and looking for my arm! Ah!
Alligator alarm! Ah!
Alligator alarm! Ah!
Alligator Al’s awake and looking for my leg! Ah!
Alligator alarm! Ah!
Alligator alarm! Ah!
Alligator Al’s awake and looking for my head! Gulp!
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Extensions
- Invite children to suggest other body parts that Alligator Alcan eat
- Printables – practice printing Aa
- Beginning letter – draw pictures of 2 things that start with A and print the word
- Send home a copy of story and song ‘Ask Me!’
Where are the worksheets?
Music play online – Search Letter A (or Letter B, or Letter X)
- Worksheets are in the printables
- Print Resource – Alphabet Action Songs book and/or Digital Resources
- Worksheets are in downloads-audio/printable
- Https://store.musicplay.ca/search?a=alphabet
- Also available – printed student books ($7) or posters
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Musical Outcomes
- can sing songs
- can create accompaniments for songs
- can identify and classify unpitched instruments
- can read rhythms
- can create patterns with word rhythms
- can accompany a song (uke, Boomwhacker)
How to Find Literacy on MPO
- Lesson Planning Overview Highlights.
- PDF of Storybook Lessons in Music play
- In Lesson Planning Overview Advocacy the Music IS Literacy for pdf with links
- Search mini-book in the Song List. (there are illustrated and text only versions)
- Search class book in the Song List. (print, enlarge to 11×17, children can strategize, collect and keep in classroom library)
- Search Song Story — 8 stories in K that use simple songs in the story
Literacy Part 2 — June 22, 22
Music IS Literacy — FUN Musical examples to illustrate many more literacy skills:
- develop discrimination between auditory elements
- Repetition
- Decoding
- Fluency
- Prosody
- vocabulary
Date: 6/15/22
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Engage Early Learners
Denise and Arte
Singing: The Heart of the Program
Arte
More FUN SESSIONS
All Things Percussion
Music Theory that’s FUN!
Good Choral Singing
Movement Fun, Games, Dances
Create and Perform on Recorder
Choral Repertoire
Fun with Ukulele
Potpourri of Possibilities
July 19-21 Live – Recorded
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Today is Monday – Literacy options
K Teacher
Write the word as you sing the song!
Under the word, put the food.
Choose what works best for your classrooms.
Mini-books are easy to print and cut out for a class set. Use this for guided reading. Teachers can model using Musicplayonline (enlarge).
Send the mini-book home with the students at the end of the week. Parents can share the story with them.
Literacy Outcomes
- Books and other forms of print are organized in specific ways.
- Words are made up of letters. Print is read from left to right and top to bottom.
- One print word represents one spoken word when read aloud. Every word has a first and last letter.
- Every sentence has a first and last word.
- Identify the first and last letter in a word.
Musical Options
- Sing the song.
- Younger students – Print out the food cards, clap the rhythm and have students identify which food you clapped.
- Read the rhythm of the words using rhythm cards.
- Create patterns with food word rhythms.
- Choose instruments to play food-related rhythms.
- Explore/classify the timbre of unpitched instruments.
- Older students can play F/C7 chords on ukulele.
Date: 6/15/22