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ISBN 10: 0-929895-86-X
ISBN 13: 978-0-929895-86-4
MH # 129
Writing educator Luana K. Mitten and Grammy® Award-winning children’s songwriters Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer show you how to integrate music and literacy in your K-2 classroom! The ten songs on the included CD are the subject of twenty standards-based mini-lessons that allow you to teach phonemic awareness, visualization, letter and sound identification, movement, and specific writing-craft skills. Use the short, music-linked literacy lessons during transitions to calm or energize students and as an instructional tool to bolster reading fluency across the content areas. This collection of musically inspired “mini-teaching moments” will delight and motivate students and fill your class with song!
Includes Bonus Track and Two Bonus Lessons!
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Listen: "Hello, Hello, Hello"
Watch: Cathy & Marcy perform “When the Rain Comes Down” with ASL signs!
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"A lot of work went into this small book, coordinating writing target skills with songs in a handy chart. There's a CD included. There's a song covering various topics from social skills and movement to listening, letter identification, name recognition, following directions and so on. The songs and activities are cross-curricular and standards-based, from social studies and map skills to descriptive attributes, onomatopoeia, alliterations, etc. The activities for K-2 are interesting and fresh and the format is easy to use with the words of the song being explored on the outside columns of each page."
- Teaching K-8 Magazine, March 2006
"Children learn best when learning is fun and playful. This is a great collection of activities and songs that every primary teacher will want to have at his or her fingertips!"
- Karen Tankersley, Author of Threads of Reading: Strategies of Literacy Development (ASCD, 2001), 2006
This product was added to our catalog on 7/25/05.