Using
Music to Enhance Learning and Literacy
- How to Promote
Literacy by Making Music (Grades 1-8)
- Finding the Music in Poetry
(Grades 6-12)
How
to Promote Literacy by Making Music
(Teachers, Grades 1-8, including Music Specialists)
Making music is for everyone, and music can bring literature alive.
This workshop involves learning how to play simple, inexpensive musical
instruments, and to tell stories with music in order to clarify characters,
establish mood, recognize plot sequence, and identify structural devices.
These methods may be used to enhance the study of a theme, author,
or genre.
Finding
the Music in Poetry
(Middle and High School Teachers of English)
Poetry is a form of literature that often challenges students. This
workshop focuses on learning how to use music as a strategy to engage
students actively in the study of poetry. Cooperative groups explore
the music of language in order to recite with expression, develop a
choral reading, and create a musical accompaniment to demonstrate understanding
of a poem's mood, form, and meaning. Using an assessment rubric, groups
perform for their peers and respond to the performances they hear.
Inviting
Imagination with Creative Writing
Developing
Imagination
(For Teachers, Grades 2-12)
A lively imagination provides a powerful motivation
for life-long learning, but, as with any skill, it must be nurtured
and practiced over time. Learn how to provide your students with calm,
relaxing experiences that stimulate creative writing of narrative and
poetry. Follow the writing process from a first draft, to revising and
using peer editing, to submitting a work for publication.
Reflections
on Nature (Outdoor workshop)
(For Teachers, Grades 3-12)
Sensory exercises that quiet the mind and deepen our awareness of nature
can become an irresistible invitation into creative writing and reflection.
This workshop will focus on writing poetry in two different styles--haiku
poems (from Japan) and chant poems (from Native American traditions).
It will be an interdisciplinary approach, linking writing with observation
and the scientific study of nature.
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