Reading, Writing, and Rhythm: Engaging Content-Area Literacy Strategies: Engaging Content-Area Literacy Strategies

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Teacher Created Materials, Jul 1, 2015 - Education - 248 pages
Rhythm, rhyme, and rap are powerful hooks that spark students' interests and engage them in learning. This innovative resource provides effective strategies for incorporating rhyme and rhythm-based activities and lessons into Language Arts, Social Studies, Science, and Math instruction. Through the use of music, singing, student- and teacher-created raps, Reader's Theater, Freeze Frames, and historical songs, students will develop their literacy skills, master content-specific knowledge, and be more likely to retain information while meeting standards goals.
 

Contents

Page 5 Foreword
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Page 7 Acknowledgments
7
Page 9 Introduction
9
A Foundation for Reading Writing and Rhythm in the Classroom
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Reading Writing and Rhythm in English Language Arts
41
Reading Writing and Rhythm in Science
89
Reading Writing and Rhythm in Social Studies
119
Reading Writing and Rhythm in Math
159
Page 209 Appendices
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Additional Raps Songs and Poems
221
Resources
231
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Rosalie Fink, Ed.D., is Professor of Literacy Emeritus at Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. A former classroom teacher and literacy specialist in New York public schools, she received her doctorate at The Harvard Graduate School of Education, where she was an invited Visiting Scholar in Education and won a Spencer Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship. She is the author of many articles and two books chosen by the International Literacy Association as Book Club Selections: Why Jane and John Couldn?t Read: And How They Learned and Inspiring Reading Success: Interest and Motivation in an Age of High-Stakes Testing. Dr. Fink gives workshops and lectures at conferences for teachers, parents, and administrators.

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