What Happens when we Combine Dance and Literacy?

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What Happens when we Combine Dance and Literacy?
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Combining Dance and Literacy

• Allows students to learn Creatively

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Students learn through experience! (John Dewey)
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Students are provided with fun and exciting ways
to learn.They are taught to discover new entry
points to learning! (Howard Gardner)
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Dance Makes Learning Meaningful!

• Dance adds a level of enjoyment to learning that
  academic subjects are not always able to achieve.
• It also gives students something to be proud of.

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Creative Movement in Dance

• Allows students to freely express themselves
  through movement.
• To have fun while learning.
• Allows positive social interactions with other
  students.
• Builds self confidence and self-esteem.

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Dance Motif
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Dance Motif is an example of teaching symbols in
dance.

• Reading symbols that represent movement ideas.
• Communicates movement ideas in written forms.
• Assists learning in a variety of modalities
  (visual, aural, written, kinetic), particularly
  identifying and understanding main movement
  concepts.
• While learning a form of dance notations

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Dance and Storytelling

• Students can act out the main concepts.
• The movement brings the stories to life.
• Write a journal and reflect on their experience.

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Dance and Literacy can be achieved in a variety
of ways.

• Children to be creative and have fun while
  learning.

Creative people invent, imagine, problem solve
and communicate!
Every business requires creative
thinkers Scientist Engineers
Artist Educators Writers Designers Inventors Pare
nts Be a Creative Thinker! Allow your children
to Dance!