Teaching Literacy through music

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Teaching Literacy through music
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Early Years Literacy Skills

• Early Reading Strategy outlines the following
  literacy related activities that help beginning
  readers
• Engage in purposeful oral language and early
  print activities (p. 9)
• Experiencing and pretending to read predictable
  and familiar books, alphabet books, poems rhymes

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Early Years Literacy Skills

• Singing songs
• Dramatizing stories, songs and poems
• Observing print
• Oral language skills need to be integrated into
  all subject areas. (p. 11)
• Concepts about print Directionality, differences
  between letters and words (p. 16)

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Early Years Literacy Skills

• Phonemic awareness developed by having children
  play with and manipulate the sounds of language.
  (p. 17)
• This can be accomplished through songs, rhymes,
  and activities that require the children to blend
  individual sounds together and by breaking words
  apart to hear the individual sounds. (p. 17)

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Early Years Literacy Skills

• Instruction should include
• Phonics/word study (rhyming words)
• Read-aloud
• Shared reading
• Guided reading
• Comprehension

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Early Years Math Skills

• Numeracy
• Order of numbers, counting
• Value of each number how many is 5
• Addition and subtraction
• Concept of 0
• Patterning
• Add on patterns
• Increasing/decreasing patterns

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Using a Beat Map

• Arrange hearts (heart beat) from left to right
  across the page to match the 4/4 beat to the
  music.
• Point to each beat as you sing well known nursery
  rhymes.
• What reading concept is this teaching?

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Using Walk, walk, walk to school

• Chime in Reading
• Sing the song using word chart.
• Put line strips in order.
• Put words in order.
• Remove some words and sing the song.
• What literacy skills does this program target?

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Chime In Reading

• Walk, walk, walk to school,
• Walk to school together,
• Walk, walk, walk to school
• Through all kinds of weather.

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Using Raffi Story Songs and Books

• Baby Beluga
• Spider on the Floor
• Wheels on the Bus
• (Seals on the Bus)
• Shake my Sillies Out
• What reading skills do these books promote?

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Using Other Music Story Songs and Books

• Hush Little Baby
• Drummer Boy
• What reading skills do these books promote?

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Using Alphabet Chants and Books

• Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
• What reading skills does this book promote?

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Using Raffi Pattern Songs and Books

• Down by the Bay
• Little White Duck
• What reading/writing/math skills do these books
  support?

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Using Other Pattern Songs and Books

• There was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly
• There was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a bat
• There was a Cold Lady Who Swallowed Some Snow
• What reading/writing/math skills do these books
  support?

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Using Counting Songs and Books

• Five Little Ducks
• Over in the Meadow
• 5 Little Monkeys
• Ten in the Bed
• The Ants Go Marching
• 10 Fat Turkeys
• Chicka Chicka 123
• What numeracy skills does each book support?

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References

• Beal, P. Nipp S.(2001). The Ants Go Marching.
  Toronto Wee Sing
• Christelow, D. (1989). Five Little Monkeys
  jumping on the bed. New York Clarion Books
• Colandro, L. (2002). There was an old lady who
  swallowed a bat. Toronto Scholastic
• Colandro, L. (2003). There was an cold lady who
  swallowed some Snow. Toronto Scholastic
• Dale, P. (2001). Ten in the Bed. Cambridge Ma
  Candlewick Press

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References

• Frazee, M. (1999). Hush, little baby. Toronto
  Voyager Books
• Hort, L. (2000) The seals on the bus. New York
  Henry Holt
• Johnston. T. (2004). 10 fat turkeys. Toronto
  Scholastic
• Keats, E.J. (1999). Over in the meadow. Toronto
  Puffin
• Kelley, T. (1993). Spider on the floor. New York
  Random House.

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References

• Martin, B. (1991). Chicka chicka boom boom. New
  York Simon and Schuster
• Martin, B. (2004). Chicka chicka 1 2 3. New York
  Simon and Schuster Raffi (1997). Baby Beluga. New
  York Random House
• Raffi (1987). Shake my sillies out. New York
  Random House
• Raffi (1987).Down by the bay. New York Random
  House

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References

• Raffi (1992). Five Little Ducks. New York Random
  House
• Raffi (1997). Baby Beluga. New York Random House
• Raffi (1998). Wheels on the bus. New York Random
  House
• Taback, S. (1997). There was an old lady who
  swallowed a fly. New York Viking
• Whippo, Walt. (2000) Little white duck. New York
  Little, Brown and Co.