Teaching Ideas:

STORIES AND SONGS

The learning of a second language can be enhanced by writing stories and the lyrics for songs. The basic method is thus: the students have a common experience, then share thoughts together with the teacher writing what they say. Students participate actively, either by writing or dictating the stories. Stories written by students are linguistically, emotionally, experientially and developmentally appropriate for the student because they contain their own words based on their personal experiences. Such stories are used to encourage active learning about and synthesis of the environment, and to provide a literary base for reading practice and instruction. When the stories are based on experiences in the English speaking culture, the students are able to communicate their impressions of the new culture to their teachers and classmates as the stories are translated. As they share even the simplest ideas in English, they become able to communicate directly with others through stories even before they are "fluent" in oral English. Also, the sequence of stories becomes a documentation of individual progress in language.

All knowledge about a piece (whether a song, a work of art, literature, or expository text) and its setting prepare a student to comprehend and appreciate it at deeper levels. All literacy is enhanced by attention to developing a schema that includes appropriate experiences, knowledge and attitudes. Each word and concept in a text carries for each person a unique semantic script based on personal experiential, cognitive, and affective components. Each effort by the teacher to prepare students with the skills, knowledge and attitudes prerequisite to understanding, will be greatly rewarded by increased interest and comprehension by the students. Skills of listening and analyzing music do transfer to listening and analyzing literature and the other arts and sciences

The cut plastic is made by hand by craftsmen of the State of Puebla, Mexico. They also make similar items of paper and other themes. Adornos Mariana has strings of squares in many themes. Fiesta de Niños can be used for every event or to leave up as a year round decoration.
 
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