Song and Dance/Word Games
Overview
When students create their own songs and corresponding dance moves, they activate even more cognitive processes by reflecting on how to represent what they are learning.
Example: Use This Strategy In in the Classroom
Design It into Your Product
Use It in the Classroom
Watch how these elementary students perform a song and dance to practice their Alphabet Knowledge. Through movement and rhythm, these students are able to practice the letters and sounds of the alphabet.
Design It into Your Product
Learn how Toca Dance Free allows learners to create instrumental songs and choreograph dance moves in a playful environment. Through this engaging and fun activity, learners can explore and create their own understandings of content.
Additional Resources
Additional examples, research, and professional development. These resources are possible representations of this strategy, not endorsements.
Factors Supported by this Strategy
More Multisensory Supports Strategies
Audiobooks allow students to hear fluent reading and to experience books above their reading skills.
A guided reading strip helps students focus by keeping their place as they read.
Providing physical representations of concepts helps learners activate mental processes.
Using earplugs or headphones can increase focus and comfort.
Incorporating multiple senses with strategies like chewing gum, using a vibrating pen, and sitting on a ball chair supports focus and Attention.
Transforming written text into audio activates different parts of the brain to support learning.
Tossing a ball, beanbag, or other small object activates physical focus in support of mental focus.
Research shows physical activity improves learner focus and creativity.
A web dictionary can serve as a resource for students to expand their Vocabulary knowledge.
