Clap! Shake! Play! Sing! Creating Musical Storytimes to Encourage Emergent Literacy?

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Clap! Shake! Play! Sing! Creating Musical
Storytimes to Encourage Emergent Literacy?

• Instructor
• Colleen Willis
• colleen_willis_at_hotmail.com
• An Infopeople Workshop
• Fall 2011

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Singing Is Believing!
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Outcomes Of A Good Music Program

• I can listen to music
• I can respond to music with my body
• I can make music
• I can understand music

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Music and Development3 Stages

• Acculturation
• begin experimenting with sound
• Imitation
• attempt musical sounds and patterns
• Assimilation
• coordinate singing, breathing and movement

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Video Demonstration
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How Does Music Enhance Learning?

• Establish positive learning state
• Energizes learning activities
• Increases attention
• Improves memory
• Releases tension
• Enhances imagination
• Adds an element of fun

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Blue Grass Jamboree Song Track 12So BigHap
Palmer
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How Does Music Support Development?

• Helps build relationships
• Feel comfortable in a group setting
• Fosters language development
• Develop individuality
• Launches creativity
• Build coordination
• Develop fine and large muscles

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How Does Music Support Emergent Literacy Skills?

• Listening and Understanding
• Vocabulary Development
• Developing Storytelling, Speaking, and Sequencing
  Through Nursery Rhymes
• Phonemic Awareness
• Alphabet Knowledge
• Math Skills

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Please share a favorite song and what
developmental area it supports. 
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Developmental Milestones
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Infants 0-12True or False

• Newborns are incapable of learning until they can
  stay awake for more than an hour or two at a
  time.
• The newborn will startle in response to a loud
  noise.
• Imitation should be discouraged in infants to
  ensure they will not grow up to be copycats.
• All normally developing infants crawl on all
  fours before they walk.
• Developmentally, there is no excuse for nine or
  ten month old children to be afraid of strangers
  unless the have previously had a bad experience.

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Toddlers 1-2True of False

• A two-year-old can be expected to follow
  three-step instructions.
• It is reasonable to expect most one-year-olds to
  catch a small ball.
• A one-year-old wants to try and do things without
  help.
• Two-year-olds are likely to engage in the type of
  play that is referred to as parallel play.

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Movement Medley Song Track 6 Big Fun Greg
and Steve
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Preschoolers 3-5

• 3-year-olds can hop on one foot.
• 4-year-olds cannot draw shapes.
• 5-year-olds can name at least 4 colors.
• 3-year olds do not like to join in simple games.
• 4-year-olds are not always able to take turns.
• 5-year olds can follow directions.

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Primary School 6-8

• 6-year-olds love to tell jokes and riddles.
• 6-year-olds do not like counting, sorting and
  matching activities.
• 7-year-olds are know for their high energy level.
• 7-year-olds are critical of their own
  performances.
• 8-year-olds take interest in what others think
  and do (ex different cultures).
• 8-year-olds do not need to be rewarded for their
  efforts.

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Babies and Music

• Bounces
• Wiggles
• Tickles
• Tapping

• Clapping
• Simple songs
• Simple circles
• Lullabies

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Fun CDs Just for Babies

• Diaper Gym
• Hunk-Ta-Bunk-Ta
• Baby Games

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Sign A Song Exercise 1
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Sign Language and Literacy

• Signing engages children in literacy activities
• Signing allows children to use multiple senses to
  learn new information
• The signs children learn look like the letters
  and words you want to teach them
• Creating signs helps children connect concrete
  objects to abstract concepts
• Signing increases young children's confidence to
  learn new skills.

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Break1030-1045
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Jumping Exercise Song Track 7Wiggle
WiggleBobby Susser
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Learning and Movement
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Benefits For Children

• Helps with attention, retention and enjoyment of
  learning
• Reinforce math and logic concepts through rhythm
  and patterns of beat and tempo
• Develops body awareness and control
• Attain greater range of emotional feelings

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Infant Massage

• Relaxation
• Relief
• Stimulation
• Interaction

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Warm-up Exercises

• Standing Exercises
• Body Bends
• Knee Raises
• Arm Circles
• Kicks

• Seated Exercises
• Point and flex
• Toe reaches
• Scissors
• Butterflies

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Creative Movement

• Rabbit
• Chicken
• Pony
• Frog
• Swan

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Stretch Song Track 4Dragon TalesDragon Tunes
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Yoga

• Encourages attentiveness, thus developing and
  improving concentration
• Promotes clear thinking and so facilitates
  learning
• Fuels imagination thereby enhancing creativity
• Builds self-confidence and contributes to
  developing a positive self-image
• Promotes harmony between mind and body, and helps
  in making appropriate responses to emotional
  stimuli.

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Video Demonstration
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Yoga StretchesExercise 2
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Popular Childrens CDs

• Hap Palmer
• Greg and Steve
• Georgiana Stewart
• Jim Gill
• Laurie Berkner

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Share Your Favorite CDs
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Jumpin Out of Bed Boogie Song Track
4Everybodys Happy When Their SingingJamie
Shaheen
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Lunch Break1200-115
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Do Your Ears Hang Low Song Track 1Are We
There Yet?
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Look At The Positive Side!

• Do you
• Enjoy listening to music, singing along with the
  car radio, moving to music
• Share your enthusiasm for music with children
• Realize that for young children music is
  something that you do, that music and movement
  are connected
• Recognize that music can enrich the total early
  childhood curriculum

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Following Directions with Exercise Song Track
14Learning with Hip HopMark D. Pencil
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What are your experiences with props?
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Tap Your Toe and Follow Me Song Track 10Come
and Make A CircleSusan Salidor
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Prop Play!!!Group Exercise 3
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Video Demonstration
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Great Resources

• 101 Rhythm Instrument Activities for Young
  Children
• Sing A Song Of Storytime
• The Sound of Storytime
• The Big Book of Stories, Songs and
• Sing-Alongs

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Break230-245
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Make An InstrumentGroup Exercise 4
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Musicality In the Language of Picture Books
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Repetition and Refrain

• Helps build predictable outcomes
• Lets children feel successful

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Poetry and Rhythm

• Children who have stored memories for the sound
  and rhythm of language are better able to make
  predictions about words and phrases, as they
  emerge as readers.

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Playfulness and Improvisation

• To master language and music, young children
  improvise or play with sound.

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Inflection and Phrasing

• The distinct musical qualities of the language in
  picture books is of enormous value when reading
  aloud to children.

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Plot and Sonata Form

• Could the sonata form subliminally teach
  children to work out conflicts peacefully by
  finding their way towards a common theme?

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Song Based Picture Books

• Build familiarity and enjoyment
• Provide repetition and predictability
• Expand vocabulary and knowledge of story
  structures
• Promote critical thinking and problem solving
• Foster creative expression and language play

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Preworkshop AssignmentSong Picture Books

• Snuggle Puppy
• Sandra Boynton
• A Youre Adorable
• Martha Alexander

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Can You Dance Song Track 6Everyone Loves to
DanceAaron Nigel Smith
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Try This At HomeTips for Parents

• Use these activities to attune children to some
  of the subtleties of sound.

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Close Your Eyes and Listen
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Pick A Setting
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Play A Recording
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Find An Opposite
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Clap A Rhythm
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Clap A Song
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Cultural Awareness

• How do children learn music?
• What is the purpose of the music?
• When do they make music?
• What instruments do they play?
• What language do they sing in?
• Does dance accompany the music?

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Los Niños Cuando Bailan Song Track 9 A
Bailar Jorge Anaya



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Video Demonstration
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So Long, Farewell
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Evaluation Form