20-In-10: Linking Music and Literacy with Twenty, Ten-Minute Mini-Lessons and Activities for Primary Learners - Softcover
20 Lessons in 10 minutes or less!
Writing educator Luana K. Mitten and Grammy Award-winning children's songrwriters Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer show you how to integrate music 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!
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About the Author:
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As an education consultant and Head of Training for Maupin House Publishing, Florida author Luana K. Mitten works nationally with schools implementing craft-based writing instruction programs, modeling the use of non-fiction texts in reading and writing instruction, and teaching content through literacy. Luana has written twelve non-fiction children's books and served as a literacy consultant for the Readers for Writer's series published by Rourke Classroom resources. She is also co-author of Models for Teaching Writing-Craft Target Skills (Maupin House, 2005).
About the Songwriters
Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer are multiple Grammy Award winners in the children's music field. They have been making music together since 1984 and have each been performing for over thirty years. Their recordings have also won numerous awards from the Parents' Choice Foundation, the National Association of Parenting Publications, the Oppenheim Toy Portfolio, and the Washington Area Music Association.
"a great collection of activities and songs that all primary teachers will want to have at their fingertips!" --Karen Tankersly, ASCD author
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- PublisherMaupin House Publishing
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 092989586X
- ISBN 13 9780929895864
- BindingSpiral-bound
- Number of pages64
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