Tag: phonological awareness

  • The Beat Goes On: How Drumming Enhances Phonological Awareness

    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.

  • Dalcroze music pedagogy in elementary education

    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.

  • Sounds and ELA (50-minute lesson plan)

    Sounds and ELA (50-minute lesson plan)

    Here’s another lesson plan that incorporates music into ELA. This class can be especially helpful for dyslexic students! Read.

  • Patterns, Music, And ELA (45 min lesson plan)

    Patterns, Music, And ELA (45 min lesson plan)

    I’ve been exploring different ways to incorporate music into an ELA class. Here is another option for a 1st or 2nd grade class. Contact me at Elisabeth *at* erzsie.com to learn more or would like to work with me on developing similar lesson plans! Lesson Focus Rhythm and repetition in developing literacy skills, particularly decoding… Read.

  • Lexia Core5 Reading: A review of the research

    I stumbled upon this Lexia program in my work as a para-educator. The students love it. It’s a simple learning analytics platform that introduces students to various concepts in reading – phonological awareness, Rapid Automatized Naming, and reading comprehension to name a few. And it works with blended learning where the students receive instruction from… Read.