Honoring the rhythm children bring to the classroom. Bridging research to best practices
Tag: Literacy
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The Power of Connection: Conversations That Shape Future Research
Sometimes the most valuable part of research isn’t what you find in journals—it’s what you discover in conversation. Over the past few weeks, I’ve connected with two remarkable colleagues: Mindy Peterson, whose podcast Music Education Conversations amplifies voices across our field, and Sue Newman, co-founder of Boogie Mites in the UK, who’s built a business… Read.
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Lesson Plan (45 minutes): Rhythm Rhymes: Moving and Grooving with Words
This 40-minute lesson plan integrates the Dalcroze Eurythmics approach to music instruction with English Language Arts concepts for 2nd grade students. Through a series of engaging movement and rhythmic activities, students will explore vowel sounds, prefixes, and suffixes in a multisensory way. Read.
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Lesson Plans (6-10)
Did you miss my last five lesson plans? I’ve listed them here for your convenience! Read.
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The reason for music
In this new blog, I talk about how #Music is woven into human #culture & #experience. More than pleasant sound, it shapes #cognitive #social #emotional growth from young age. Discover profound ways #music enriches lives: #BrainDevelopment #LanguageFoundation #HealingPower #SocialConnections #MusicEducation Read.
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Lesson Plan (50-min): Rockin’ Grammar Grooves in 2nd grade
In this engaging lesson, 2nd graders learn grammar concepts by translating sentences into rhythmic musical phrases. Creating beat patterns reinforces subjects, verbs, and pronouns through auditory and kinesthetic activities. Performing the “grammar grooves” allows students to creatively experience and internalize standard English conventions. Read.
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The Beat Goes On: How Drumming Enhances Phonological Awareness
#Drumming enhances #phonological awareness by requiring children to recognize and produce patterns of sounds. As they break down #rhythms into individual beats and blend beats into rhythms, they practice segmenting and blending #phonemes, critical skills for #reading and #writing. Read.
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Lesson Plan (50 minutes): Beats and Bytes: A Percussive Exploration of Phonological Frontiers
This dynamic lesson integrates drumming to kinesthetically reinforce phonological awareness skills. Students drum rhythms representing rhymes, sounds, and syllables – segmenting words into beats and blending beats into words. The multi-sensory approach promotes literacy development through interpretive movement and rhythmic improvisation, aligning with music and ELA standards. Read.
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Lesson Plan (45-minutes): Jazz Up Your Vocabulary
This multisensory lesson connects vocabulary development to jazz music. Students interpret vocabulary words through movement, improvisation, and performance, exploring how context clues and musical elements convey meaning. By bridging ELA and music, learners deepen word comprehension through an engaging, interdisciplinary approach. Read.
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Lesson Plan (50 min): Rhythmic Writing and Word Play
New blog: Rhythmic writing lesson fuses #ELA and #music for grades 2-3. Incorporates #musicpriming, clapping/moving to word rhythms, and “air writing” for multisensory #spelling, #sightwords and #handwriting practice. Engages kinesthetic learning, improves phonics and motor skills. #elementaryed #lessonplan Read.
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Dalcroze music pedagogy in elementary education
The Dalcroze music pedagogy uses rhythm, movement, and listening to teach musical concepts in a multisensory way. For elementary students, it develops crucial skills like coordination, impulse control, phonological awareness, and auditory processing abilities. These support learning across subjects like reading, math, and following instructions. Dalcroze engages diverse learners kinesthetically while building executive function. Read.
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