Literacy and Music

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Literacy and Music

• Yoonhee Kim

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Objective

• Promoting Literacy Through Music
• Establishing a sense of rhythm
• Developing vocabulary and reading skills
• offering children an opportunity to
• read higher-leveled text
• Developing oral language skill
• Emotional effect

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Songs for Teaching

• Songs that Teach Conversational English and
  English Vocabulary .
•   A child's initial introduction to patterned
  text often first occurs in songs, chants, and
  rhymes that are repeated over and over again
  throughout childhood.

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Song How much is it ?

• Customer  How much is it Sir?         How much
  does it sell for?         How much is it
  Sir?         How much does it cost?
• Customer How much is it Sir?          How much
  does it sell for?
• Salesman Ninety-five dollars!                 It
  's a very good price!
• Refrain Eighty-one, eighty-two, eighty-three,
  eighty-four,
•  eighty-five, eighty-six, eighty-seven,
  eighty-eight, eighty-nine, ninety?

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• These activities are
• Powerful adjuncts to
• Existing classroom
• experiences and well
• worth the effort of
• Putting the materials
• together.
• Content information
• Used in these activities
• Need not be complex
• and may Be material you
• Already Have that needs
• only a soundtrack to
• Deepen Your
• students understanding.

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What Are we looking for songs in that teach?

• They are relevant, meaningful, and interesting to
  the children. 
• They tell a simple story.
• They have a simple, memorable melody. 
• They build a base for future learning. 
• They review information and practice skills.
• They are age appropriate. 

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• Music gives a soul to the universe, Wings to the
  mind, Flight to the imagination...
• And life to everything.
• --Plato