Music in the Elementary World Languages Classroom

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Music in the Elementary World Languages Classroom

• Jeannie Gigliotti
• August 2008

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A Brief Overview

• Why Music?
• Types of Music for the Classroom
• Extension Activities Ideas
• Because just singing them is not enough!
• Finding the Music
• A look at iTunes and other ideas

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Why Music?!?

• Reduction of Affective Filter
• always moving from SAFE to SCARY
• Tools for communication
• Grammatical Awareness
• Student Engagement, Interest, Retention!

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Types of Music

• Grammatically-based songs
• Culturally-specific songs (nursery rhymes)
• Contemporary Songs (from the radio)

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Culturally Specific Songs (Nursery Rhymes)

• Examples
• English Humpty Dumpty, Mary Had a Little Lamb,
  Jack Jill
• French Monsieur Pouce, Une Souris Verte, Sur le
  plancher

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Extension Activities (Nursery Rhymes)

• Choral Recitation
• Confidence and fluency!
• Timed Races
• Fluency!
• Living Sentences
• Word Recognition!
• Vocab Brainstorms
• Recall!
• Directed Drawing
• Out of context Word Recall!
• Create Your Own
• Personalization and Retention!

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What in the World is Directed Drawing?

• Objective Incorporate as many different
  vocabulary words from different songs to create a
  new story
• Students Role
• Listen to story
• Draw story to show comprehension
• Act story to show comprehension
• Create their own story with the vocabulary
• An example

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What in the World Is Directed Drawing?

• Original Nursery Rhymes
• 1) Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a
  pail of water. Jack fell down and broke his
  crown and Jill came tumbling after.
• 2) Mary had a little lamb, little lamb, little
  lamb. Mary had a little lamb whose fleece was
  white as snow and everywhere that Mary went,
  that lamb was sure to go.
• Directed Drawing Script
• There is a boy called Jack. He had a lamb. The
  lamb was not little. The lamb was as big as a
  house. The lamb followed Jack up the hill. The
  lamb followed Jack down the hill. Then the lamb
  went up the hill again. He fell down and tumbled
  down the hill, but he did not break his crown.

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Another Extension Activity Create Your Own

• Original Nursery Rhyme
• Sur le plancher On the ground
• Une araignée A spider
• Se tricotait des bottes Was knitting himself
  some boots
• Dans un flacon In a bottle
• Une limaçon A snail
• Enfilait ses culottes Was pulling up his
  undies
• Je vois dans le ciel I see in the sky
• Une mouche a miel A honeybee
• Pinçant sa guitare Plucking the guitar
• Les rats tous confus The rats all confused
• Sonnaient langélus Were ringing the morning
  bell
• Au son de la fanfare To the sound of the band

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Extension Activity Create Your Own
Original Nursery Rhyme Sur le plancher On the
ground Dans un flacon In a bottle Je vois
dans le ciel I see in the sky Les rats tous
confus The rats all confused
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Contemporary Songs (Radio)

• Examples
• English Hannah Montana
• French Lorie (i.e. Ta meilleure amie)
• Spanish Selena
• A World of Caution
• Make sure the lyrics are COMPLETELY clean ?

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Extension Activities for Contemporary Music

• CLOZE (fill in the blank as you listen)
• Consider limiting to certain kinds of words
• Sequencing
• Put the lyrics in order as you listen
• Phrase Manipulation
• Phrase wall
• Key fixed expressions
• Lyric illustration
• Draw and label the image described in the stanza
  (vocab)
• Create Your Own
• A high school example

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Cali Elle ma dit

• Je crois que je ne t'aime plus
• Ta peau est du papier de verre
• Sous mes doigts ... sous mes doigts
• Je te regarde et je pleure
• Juste pour rien ... comme ça

I believe that I no longer love you Your skin is
like sandpaper Under my fingers Under my
fingers I look at you and I cry Just for
nothingLike that
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Cali Elle ma dit

• Key Phrases
• Je crois que
• Je pleure
• Comme ça
• Je ne plus
• Related Situational Vocabulary
• A Break Up, Sadness

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iTunes

• AND FINALLY!
• How do I get iTunes?
• How do I use iTunes to get music for my class?

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iTunes

• 1) To Get It
• www.apple.com/itunes/download/
• 2) Click on Blue Button
• Download iTunes Free
• 3) Follow Download Instructions!
• You cannot download iTunes on CMS computers!
  You must do it on your home computer

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iTunes

• Once it is downloaded on your computer
• 1) Double click on iTunes icon to open it
• 2) Now its time to search for music!

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CHOOSE ANY ARTIST THAT INTERESTS YOU! Once you
select an artist, all their albums will appear to
the right.
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Once you have clicked on an album, all the songs
on that album will show up in the bottom portion
of the screen. Double click on the song to hear
a 30 second preview. If you like it, you can buy
it!
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Other Options for Music

• Ebay
• Amazon.com / Amazon.ca (French)
• FNAC.fr (French)
• Teachers Discovery
• Other Ideas?