1. A Ram Sam Sam A Ram Sam Sam, A Ram Sam Sam
Gooli Gooli Gooli Gooli Gooli, Ram Sam Sam
A Rafi! A Rafi!

2. Music, Movement, and Literacy
Mark Weakland

3. Research Rationale Past and present studies show…

4. … educational research shows that movement and music can positively effect memory and learning …

5. Upon integration of the arts into major subjects in fourteen New York elementary an secondary public schools, student behavior improved strikingly in such areas as taking risks, cooperating, solving problems, and being prepared.
Created from PL (1990) Reauthorized and transformed in 1997
Congress took testimony from hundreds of professionals,
teachers, parents, advocates, etc.
children in spec. ed were not reaching their potential due
to the separate system.
*Main point: IDEA is intended to insure a child’s access to
the general education curriculum.
* Presumption: children with disabilities are MOST appropriately
educated with their non-disabled peers.
*Separation from non-disabled peers can ONLY
occur when the child’s disability is so severe that
even with supplementary aids and services,
the child’s education in regular classes cannot be
achieved satisfactorily.
* Burden of proof is on the school/district.
General Curriculum Emphasis:
Regular educator MUST be part of the IEP team.
General educator carries out specially designed instruction when the special educator is not present, is on team to develop a behavior plan, etc.
Team is expected to adapt/modify/provide aids, a BSP etc.
BEFORE a more restrictive program, like Life Skills, is considered
Parental Rights / Due Process - time lines, stop changes in placement
Procedural Safeguards: PA is more stringent than feds.
10 days, 15 cumulative,
MR is any suspension,
MR IQ is below 80 (more identified as MR),
steps that must occur before removal (IEP meeting,
Funct. Assess, BSP, Manifest determination).

6. Music and language are inseparably linked as a single system in the brain
…nonverbal modalities presented in music / arts education help students with skills used in reading, writing and math…
Created from PL (1990) Reauthorized and transformed in 1997
Congress took testimony from hundreds of professionals,
teachers, parents, advocates, etc.
children in spec. ed were not reaching their potential due
to the separate system.
*Main point: IDEA is intended to insure a child’s access to
the general education curriculum.
* Presumption: children with disabilities are MOST appropriately
educated with their non-disabled peers.
*Separation from non-disabled peers can ONLY
occur when the child’s disability is so severe that
even with supplementary aids and services,
the child’s education in regular classes cannot be
achieved satisfactorily.
* Burden of proof is on the school/district.
General Curriculum Emphasis:
Regular educator MUST be part of the IEP team.
General educator carries out specially designed instruction when the special educator is not present, is on team to develop a behavior plan, etc.
Team is expected to adapt/modify/provide aids, a BSP etc.
BEFORE a more restrictive program, like Life Skills, is considered
Parental Rights / Due Process - time lines, stop changes in placement
Procedural Safeguards: PA is more stringent than feds.
10 days, 15 cumulative,
MR is any suspension,
MR IQ is below 80 (more identified as MR),
steps that must occur before removal (IEP meeting,
Funct. Assess, BSP, Manifest determination).

7. Emotions
Entry point for learning
Entry point for memory

8. Why Engage Emotions?
Medial brain (the limbic system) is closely linked to memory encoding and retrieval
More pathways reach from the limbic system to the cerebral cortex than vice-versa
The reticular activating system (filter) can be by-passed by emotions

9. Social Nature of Students
Music and drama allow for cooperative groupings
Drama activities speak to students’ natural inclination to talk and socialize
Drama activities don’t control – they channel!

10. They allow for movement that is educational
Music, movement, and drama can help to channel students with high activity levels
They allow for movement that is educational
Fun = engaging = fewer behavior problems!
Mental health services that provide long term therapy,
counseling, behavior management programs, TSS services, etc
are not an entitlement. They can be stopped if it is
deemed not necessary, if the insurance runs out
and/or if the child doesn’t want services (after age 14).

11. Building Rhyme and Rhythm Taking a Break in a Long Block
Feel the Beat
Clap Clap Clap Your Hands
There’s a Penny in My Hand
Boa Constrictor
My Hat It Has Three Corners

12. There’s a Penny in My Hand
It will travel through the land.
Is it here? Is it there?
It will travel everywhere!

13. Oh, I'm being eaten by a boa constrictor, A boa constrictor,
I'm being eaten by a boa constrictor
And I don't like it - one bit.
Well, what do you know? It’s nibblin’ my toe.
Oh gee, It’s up to my knee.
Oh my, It’s up to my thigh.
Oh fiddle, It’s up to my middle.
Oh heck, It’s up to my neck.
Oh, dread,
It’s upmmmmmmffffffffff…

14. My hat, it has three corners. Three corners has my hat.
And had it not three corners
It could never be my hat!

15. Teaching Skills Phonemic Awareness
What is the Sound That Starts These Words?
What is a Word That Starts With ___?
Head and Shoulders

16. Teaching Skills Alphabetic Principle
A Hunting We Will Go

17. Scaffolding to reading success Building vocabulary
Chant / Poetry

18. Keeping Fit Mike, Mike, ride the bike. Rose, Rose, kiss your toes.
Di, Di, touch the sky.
Joe, Joe, start to row.
Lee, Lee, skate and ski.
Dennis, Dennis, play some tennis…
Make a hit by keeping fit!
All Together Now: 200 of Sonja Dunn’s best chants, Pembroke Publishers, 1999

19. Little Animals, Mark Weakland
Here Comes a Shark
Shark, shark,
here comes a shark!
Oh oh!
Swish, swish!
Here comes a shark.
He’s a big mean fish.
Get out of the water
As fast as you can.
Don’t dilly dally.
Just head for land…
Little Animals, Mark Weakland

20. The Grand Old Duke of York
Oh, the grand old Duke of York, He had ten thousand men And he marched them up to the top of the hill, And he marched them down again. When they were up, they were up, When they were down, they were down, And when they were only half way up, They were neither up nor down.

21. Chanting to remember

22. Chants for rules and information
Drop your e, add –ing Change your y to an i and add your ending A verb is a word, it’s an action word. You can see it, you can do it, it’s an action word! Restate, answer, support, cha-cha-cha! Right There, Think and Search, Author and Me

23. The Elements Silent E / T-I-O-N Many others! The Water Cycle
Learning information
The Elements Silent E / T-I-O-N Many others! The Water Cycle

24. Building fluency

25. The Delicious Chocolate Donut
Poetry Re-Read
A Bug, A Bug
The Delicious Chocolate Donut
Nuh uh!
Macaroni and Cheese
Around and Around

26. Synthesizing information Demonstrating comprehension

27. Wax Museum

28. Wax Museum Start with reading of monologues
Start with reading of monologues
Move to writing of monologues
Science, reading, social studies, etc.

29. Book characters

30. Science terms: light

32. Talk Show

33. Annelids Annelids are segmented worms. What are annelids? Everybody!
A leech is an annelid. What’s a leech?
An earthworm is an annelid. It is an annelid because it is a worm and its body has segments. Why is it an annelid?
Is a spider an annelid? Why not?

34. Talk show Host Three to four guests
Work in teams to construct questions and answers
Practice
Present

35. Tableaux

36. The Industrial Revolution

37. Rewarding Behavior Modulating Mood

38. Using Entrainment
Of physical bodies, body cycles, brainwaves and behavior
Entrainment to slow pulses=relaxation
Can be used to decrease discipline problems or change the mood of the classroom

39. Rewarding Behavior Modulating Mood
DJ Friday Room transition Mama Don’t Allow