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Jennifer Meyer, Ed.S. Rutherford County Schools

Putumayo’s World Playground : Using World Music as a Springboard For Content-Based EL Instruction. Jennifer Meyer, Ed.S. Rutherford County Schools.

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Jennifer Meyer, Ed.S. Rutherford County Schools

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  1. Putumayo’s World Playground: Using World Music as a Springboard For Content-Based EL Instruction Jennifer Meyer, Ed.S. Rutherford County Schools

  2. Stephen Krashen maintains that second language acquisition is based on input that is meaningful and comprehensible to the learner [Krashen, S. (1985), The Input Hypothesis: Issues and Implications, Longman ]. Comprehensible Input

  3. John Anderson postulates that second language acquisition is based on skills acquisition that advance a learner from declarative knowledge to procedural knowledge (Anderson, 2007). Adaptive Control of Thought Model

  4. Content-Based EL Instruction • Content-based ESL instruction can provide students with an opportunity to develop their cognitive academic language proficiency, which will help make instruction in their gen ed classrooms more comprehensible.

  5. Content-Based EL Instruction • It can teach ELs the skills they need to advance from cognitive knowledge of facts to a metalinguistic awareness which enables the learner to autonomously produce language based on internalized procedures.

  6. Putumayo’s World Playground • Contains songs from around the world from countries including: USA, Canada, Australia, Ireland, Senegal, Jamaica, Greece, France, Congo, Brazil and Israel. • I have developed lessons using music from the USA, Canada/Ireland, Australia, Bolivia, Greece and Denmark. • Use of Passport Journal to document world musical travels

  7. « Nyanpi Matilda » Trevor Adamson Read: The Pumpkin Runner (by Marsha Diane Arnold). Social Studies: talk about Aborigines: use images from internet/create a power point. Social Studies 3rd Grade 3.1.01 Understand the diversity of human cultures. b. Compare cultural differences in various regions of the United States and the world.

  8. « Nyanpi Matilda » Trevor Adamson • Language Arts: compare US and Australian English (foldable) • Predict words in Pitjantjatjara based on what students know about language • Song analysis and interpretation

  9. « Nyanpi Matilda » Trevor Adamson Science: View excerpt from BBC Planet Earth about kangaroos and climate in Australia Preview vocabulary: mammal, marsupial, carnivore, herbivore, omnivore Science 1st Grade 0107.2.3 Sort and classify a variety of living and non-living materials based on their characteristics. Organize websites and reading materials on variety of Australian animals: kangaroo, koala bear, platypus, tasmanian devil, dingo.

  10. « Nyanpi Matilda » Trevor Adamson Have students work in groups according to reading level and assign animals. Complete graphic organizer on assigned animal using reading materials and websites. Language Arts 8th Grade SPI 0801.3.12 Complete a graphic organizer (e.g., clustering, listing, mapping, webbing) with information from notes for a writing selection.

  11. « Nyanpi Matilda » Trevor Adamson • Oral presentation (using graphic organizer) • ESL Speaking Grades 3-12 • S.2 Provide basic information on a relevant topic in a conversation. • S.3 Provide detailed information on a relevant topic in a conversation. • Write about animal in the passport journal.

  12. « Nyanpi Matilda » Trevor Adamson • Art: Aboriginal Art • View appropriate sections of power point and then have students make their own Aboriginal paintings using Q-Tips and paint. • Arts Grades 9-12 • 1.1.1 Employ different types of media, techniques, and processes used to create various art forms.

  13. « Nyanpi Matilda » Trevor Adamson Activity to pass the time: trace Perry the Platypus with vocabulary words from this unit.

  14. Small Group Collaboration • Main theme • Hook • One activity

  15. Questions Jennifer Meyer, Ed. S. Rutherford County Schools Eagleville School/Rockvale Elementary School meyerj@rcschools.net http://www.res.rcs.k12.tn.us/TEACHERS/MeyerJ/MeyerJ.html

  16. Sources/ResourcesRetrieved January 29, 2012 • http://www.putumayo.com/content/world_playground • http://www.putumayo.com/sites/default/files/uploads/userfiles/image/home%20page/BrazilPlay_Web.jpg • http://svn.putumayo.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/product/Kids-World-Party-375.jpg • Krashen, S. (1985), The Input Hypothesis: Issues and Implications, Longman. • Anderson, J. R. (2007). How can the human mind occur in the physical universe?. Oxford University Press. Retrieved from http://http://oxfordindex.oup.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195324259.001.0001 • http://www.putumayo.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/product/Acoustic-Dreamland-Cover_PRINT.jpg • http://www.putumayo.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/product/RR-Playground.jpg • http://www.amazon.com/Pumpkin-Runner-Marsha-Diane-Arnold/dp/0803721242 • Arnold, M. D. (1998). The pumpkin runner. New York, NY: Dial Books for Young Readers. • http://australian-animals.net/plat.htm • http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Kangaroo_and_joey03.jpg/220px-Kangaroo_and_joey03.jpg • http://www.wangkawilurrara.com/yalata/ • http://www.fultonschools.org/dept/curriculum/art/documents/pp_aboriginal_athomas.ppt • http://www.dragoart.com/tuts/2149/1/1/how-to-draw-perry-the-platypus-from-phineas-and-ferb.htm • http://www.putumayo.com/kids/home

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