This video segment from Between the Lions features a catchy song that celebrates an important function of literacy: access to information. It also shows the wide world of print, and all of the knowledge that can be gained from it.
Students demonstrate expressive qualities of music through movement.
Students learn to identify tension and release within a piece of music.
This free, online article, developed for elementary teachers, describes a Kindergarten polar science, standards aligned, unit centered on The Polar Express developing literacy, math, and science skills.
This article provides guidelines for teaching students skills to successfully present in front of the class including addressing stage fright, effective voice, gestures, and posture, and a downloadable and editable grading rubric.
This toolbox highlights thinking routines developed across a number of research projects at PZ. A thinking routine is a set of questions or a brief sequence of steps used to scaffold and support student thinking. PZ researchers designed thinking routines to deepen students’ thinking and to help make that thinking “visible.” Thinking routines help to reveal students’ thinking to the teacher and also help students themselves to notice and name particular “thinking moves,” making those moves more available and useful to them in other contexts.
In this video segment from Between the Lions, Sloppy Pop's song Read the Signs spotlights the letters and words we see on signs every day, encouraging children to be aware of print in their environment.
This article focuses on the ways in which teachers can ensure that students’ speaking and listening skills are developed. It provides a review of effective classroom routines.
This video includes a video of a teacher leading a whole class discussion while reflecting on the lesson.
Our learning intentions and success criteria for this course are:
Identify 2 possible strategies to make families comfortable in your program
Identify at least 2 effective listening strategies
Make a measurable goal to utilize these strategies with families in your program
You should expect this course to take no more than 20-40 minutes of on-screen learning time, with at least a few weeks of real-life work on a family engagement goal of your choice.
Strategies for developing confident speakers who can share their thoughts and learning.
“They Say / I Say” identifies the key rhetorical moves in academic writing, showing students how to frame their arguments in the larger context of what others have said and providing templates to help them make those moves. And, because these moves are central across all disciplines, the book includes chapters on writing in the sciences, writing in the social sciences, and-new to this edition-writing about literature.
This article includes a download to a handout that shows why making music matters.