Sarah Morris, from Primrose preschools, shares a post with us today about how to cultivate a great love of literacy with children. ~EMP Young children love to imitate what the adults in their lives are doing. They will happily “clean” the house while Mom performs her chores or “mow” the lawn in imitation of Dad. [...]
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Yesterday our district had a professional development day on the topic of vocabulary. Some 4th grade colleagues presented to all the elementary and middle school teachers a method of introducing vocabulary that they had started last year. What they were doing was centered around Robert Marzano’s teachings from his book Building Background Knowledge for Academic [...]
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Kristina Peterson is back to share her insights about writing, specifically revision – an important part of the writing process, a creative process. To read more from Kristina, visit her author page, by clicking her name. ~EMP I had the distinct pleasure of taking a writing class this past summer with Tom Romano during which [...]
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This month my focus has been on the parallels between music and literacy. However, music is not the only art that can be integrated with literacy. Drama, movement and visual art can as well. Think about the elements of a story. Each of these art forms tells a story. In theatre, a story comes alive, [...]
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“Music is the universal language of mankind.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Ask any musician or music lover and they will agree that music, is in and of itself, a language. You can be literate in music. And once this happens whether you become literate in reading, writing, creating or listening to music, a whole [...]
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Over the last weeks, I have received many emails, a few comments and some personal inquiries into active listening time. In nearly each post in this series I’ve highlighted how this time allows me to make connections between music and literacy every day with my students. Whether it be visualization and reading, listening for the [...]
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If there is one thing my students learn before they leave me to move onto the next teacher, it’s the BME Rule. I have a sign in my classroom that states: “The BME Rule – All Good Writing is Following It!” It has to do with the fact that all good pieces of writing have [...]
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I am excited to bring you another guest blogger today! Maria Rainier is a classically trained pianist, piano teacher, blogger for First in Education and is fluent in Spanish. I’m sure you will find her ideas inspiring not for foreign language study, but for literacy in general! ~EMP I’ve been through years of Spanish instruction [...]
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Using visualization strategies while listening to music is very beneficial to students as they read and write. When students close their eyes, they can then describe what they imagine when they listen to music. These experiences can be used to draw their attention to how visualization with music parallels with reading. Some students may see [...]
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