[HANASHIR:7353] Re: Best Way to Teach/Display Lyrics?

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While songsheets are not ideal, they do allow the students to take the music 
home with them and continue the experience with songs that have many words 
and/or multiple verses.    K and 1 are barely reading English, let alone 
Hebrew, so songsheets are not very useful.  But my 3-4th graders took 
songsheets in English and were so excited that they were hard to control.  
They were like dry brush - just a spark set them ablaze with enthusiasm.  The 
K-1st and the 5-6th groups were just the opposite - impossible to get going.  
So, sometimes the personalities and dynamics of the group are either very 
helpful or impossibly frustrating no matter what you are teaching or how you 
are teaching it.

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> Date: Thursday, 09-Nov-00 05:11 PM
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> From: Rachelle and Howard Shubert \ Internet:    (notfranz (at) total(dot)net)
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> Regarding the song sheets for children controversy, I avoid them until 4th
> grade. I'd rather have their hands free and heads up and so keep the songs
> simple enough to get with repetition, although sometimes I have written
> words on the board if one is avaialble.  I find rote learning really
> effective for young children who often have sharper memories than we do
> anyway.
> 
> Rachelle Shubert
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