Indigenous Folksong Reading Curriculum
Listen and find the music of the text (speech)
Through the music find the rhythm
Through the rhythm you will understand the meaning of the words . . .
FOCUS
Indigenous Folksong Reading Curriculum builds a bridge from the Dialect to the Standard. The teacher collects the children's playground game chants and songs and uses this material for reading, writing and spelling. Find research, experts, tools, standards and resources needed to execute the program.
The Indigenous Folksong Reading Curriculum.
- Sample Time Line of the Indigenous Folksong Reading Curriculum
- National Children's Folksong Repository
- Crisis - Save Folksongs
- Oral Tradition @ Tech
- Oral Tradition & Literacy
- Oral Tradition Rubrics Tool
- Folksong History
TEACHERS CAN
Help children develop the use of technology as a tool for learning and for use in all sorts of career related ways in the real world, by teaching "skills" with a learner-centered constructivist approach.
Skills are important, and you ARE helping your students develop them if you are providing learner-centered / constructivist events, and hands-on (experiential), facilitated discovery.
Notice the use of syllables, rhythm, cadence chanting (poetry read outloud)
"The Cat in the Hat" become a central character in the American literary mythology. It came at a time when children's literature was largely dominated by Aesop's fables and other stories with explicit morals -- lessons that the cat flouts with zeal. The particular endurance of Cat, many critics say, is owed partly to its origins in an emerging philosophy of phonetic learning. Most of the 236 individual words in the book were taken from a list of beginner words for new readers, and only a few are more than one syllable. The "anapestic" meter -- two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable -- marks out a cadence that is easy for young readers to grasp. "When you're reading aloud, you can just feel what's supposed to come next," says Joyce Herbeck, an education professor at Montana State University. "It makes them feel like readers right away."
1st PREPARE
Kennedy Center of Performing Arts 1ST online conference on Music and Technology in the Classroom. The Oral Tradition and the New CyberPlayground ©1997 PDF
MOTIVATE YOUR STUDENTS
Teachers can facilitate learning environments and learning events that lead to the eventual use of higher order thinking and the very very important assimilation and ability to transfer those skills out of the initial learning environment, but knowledge must precede application which precedes all important higher level thinking skills. Learn about About Folklife
LINGUISTICS
Do you speak standard english? Do you also speak a dialect? Can you define dialect, pidgin, creole, patwa, aave, ebonics?
What do you know about Linguistics and the Language Arts?
About Linguistics Expert Dr. John Rickford
- Spoken Soul: The Story of Black English American Book Award 2000 from the Before Columbus Foundation.
- Dr. John Rickford's Writings about Dialect Readers Revisited Every Black kid knows that there is language for the playground, and then there is language for the classroom, and if you want anyone to take you seriously, you'd better not mix the two. . . .
- Special issue on "Dialects and Education" Writings on Ebonics PDF Published in Linguistics and Education, 7.2:107-128 (1995).
LITERACY
Who are Dialect Speakers and what is this about?
What difficulties are unique to Dialect Speakers?
THEMATIC READING
Anyway you approach it, the learner almost always develops both a knowledge base of skills and/or concepts along with the ability to make critical and/or creative decisions about the uses of those skills/concepts when the learning is student-centered and constructivist based.
Introduction to and Definition of Cross Curricular Thematic Reading Instruction.
Lean why this kind of reading instruction works with all students and especially dialect speakers.
How To Build a Thematic Reading Unit PDF
MUSIC
Study Ties Mental Abilities To Interaction of Emotion and Cognitive Skills
Integrated Unit - Teach History Through Music
Integrate Music and Reading
- Teaching reading Through Song
- Singing For Success
Keeping a Musical Beat Is Linked to Academic Skills
- PROOF THAT Playing music can be good for your brain Stanford study finds it helps the understanding of language - MAKES BETTER READERS
also see: Music Research Page 1 and 2
Betsy B. Lee, Ed.S. shows how to use songs like The Star-Spangled Banner to improve reading comprehension and vocabulary.
Playground games can stop bullying
Songs, Verse and Games for Teaching Grammar
Arif Saricoban & Esen Metin in The Internet TESL Journal
DOMINO
Book & Cassette
DOMINO
Cross Curricular, Interdisciplinary, Multi-Cultural Resource
60 Traditional Children's Songs, Proverbs, and Culture From the American Virgin Islands
45 minute Live Sound Field Recording
A books can be produced after completing the reading module.
Using Music to Build Phonemic Awareness
Laura Woodall and Brenda Ziembroski
The Underground Railroad
Regina Newlin
Teaching Simple Machines and Newtonian Mechanics
David Vernot
Learning from Lyrics/Music & Society
The Kennedy Center ArtsEdge
Tap Your Feet
Provided by MENC in partnership with PBS on teachervision.com
Lesson Plans from The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum
Musical-ESL Lesson Plan Ideas
Suzanne L. Medina's E.S.L. Through Music
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