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The Importance
of Rhythm, Rhyme, and Music
in Reading Music and rhythm are important in reading--they help build fluency! Consider learning the ABCs. When children are first learning their ABCs, they learn them with a song. The song helps them to remember what they are learning and progress from one letter to the next. And it's fun! Music has a rhythm vocabulary. Knowing a lot of the most frequently learned rhythm patterns makes reading music easier. Music provides an additional layer of context, something extra for the children to hang onto as they attempt to grasp the constructs of language. Music not only uses the auditory sense, but also kinesthetic, as inherently it promotes movement. This helps to cement in the children’s brains the new information they are incorporating. |
A Musical Exercise Personalizing Rhymes Take an easy rhyme or song like.... Jingle Bells,
Jingle Bells,
Jingle Bells, my dog smells The song can be simple and even silly! Implement this exercise in a Reader's Theater format by asking each student to make up their own character and to write a rhyme that matches that character that will fit the Jingle Bells tune. Then students take turns as they each sing their rhyme outloud in a role-play format. |
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This Month's Featured Story With Rap Music | This
Month's Special 20% Off - Ick! I'm Sick!
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THE VEGGIE RAP Written by: Samuel Chen |
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Story Synopsis: In this story a young, meat-eating boy learns the benefits of becoming a vegetarian in a strange, magical way. After being sent to his room without dinner, the young boy is taken by a dream to a magical vegetarian island where he meets an unusual genie. This story is presented in rhyme and is fun to RAP to with family and friends. Click Here to Listen to Teens Rapping the Playbook story, The Veggie Rap
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Testimonials "Quick note while my kids are at Art special...just to let you know that I rec’d the info & catalog re Playbooks Reader’s Theater & I did download the free short version of “Ucky Duck”. We are enjoying it sooo much; in fact, EVERY reader in my class has a part & each students feels really happy that they get to be in the play....I totally agree that it is a wonderful way to help students become better readers & also have them learn to co-operate w/ each other (social studies) etc." Jenn , 2nd Grade Teacher I have only shared the books with a few of my students, but they loved them! We use Reader's Theater throughout the school year, but I have to run of copies and they don't hold up after repeated use. The fact that these Playbooks are organized, multi-leveled, and colorized is a winning selling point for me! Bernice, Title 1 Reading Specialist
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It's National Handwashing Week! |
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Spread the Word, Not the Germs!
Source: http://www.henrythehand.com Here's a great Playbook® about spreading germs and handwashing. In a funny, reverse scenario manner, kids learn about how germs spread. An ideal story for flu season! Ick! I'm Sick! |
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