Thursday, 5 June 2014

Wk 8: Music and Literacy

This week’s reflection looks at how we as teachers can connect music to other KLAs specifically literacy. We were given many choices of activities that involved looking at literacy through music. We were given many literacy books, ‘Henry and Amy’ written by Stephen Michael King was particularly concentrated on because of it’s fun and interesting writing style. 

Our group looked at ‘Rory’s Story Cubes’ (Wired, 2014) as a stimulus of creating imaginary storytelling. There are 9 cubes with each cube having a different picture of something on each side. Once they are all rolled and you have the pictures you have rolled, students must sort the cubes into something they can create through their imagination. We as a group created a story based on the picture we got on the cubes and started to discuss ideas of what our story could be about. We then were able to use an iPad to record our story with background sounds from percussive instruments.


Reference:

King, S. M. (1999). Henry and Amy. Schoolastic Australia

Wired, (2014). Exercise Your Creativity Muscle with Rory’s Story Cubes. Retrieved May 2, 2014 from http://archive.wired.com/geekdad/2010/06/rorys-story-cubes/

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