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From Sound to Symbol: A Joyful Way of Learning
Living Language Institute Foundation
Summer Institute 08 Aug.18-22,2008
The LLIF Summer Institute will provide practical methods for developing orality with children through song games, story telling and co-lingual play activities.
If you are ---
* an elementary classroom teacher
* a teacher in a multi-lingual classroom
* a music teacher
* an early learning educator
* a drama, or movement education specialist
* a teacher of children with special needs
* a researcher
* a person working with non-English speaking families in the community
* a librarian
then the LLIF Summer Institute may be for you.
You will experience practical ways of enhancing orality among children through song games, sound-to-symbol study techniques, co-lingual song game play.
Documentation of attendance can be provided to teachers for purposes of professional development
Dates: Aug.18-22,2008
Time: Mon-Fri. 8:45 AM-3:00 PM
Place: Southlands Elementary School
5351 Camosun Street, Vancouver, B.C.
Cost: $400.00 (optional $75.00 for daily lunch provision)
For more info and to register:
LivingLanguage@shaw.ca
The Sound to Symbol Methodology has been developed over the past 30 years. It has grown from work in education through music and has been expanded to include application in literacy and orality. It is an important method for developing oral language skills in the context of social play and for practicing important sensory motor integration activities that arise in the context of the game play.
The songs are structured for cooperative social interaction and are based on simple movements and gestures that engage attention and provide both sequencing and patterns of social interaction carried by the song’s architecture. Many of the song actions were developed based on the work of the late Dr. Jean Ayers, an occupational therapist who pioneered activities for children in sensory motor integration.
The Sound to Symbol Methodology has application in the school classroom, in early learning settings, with children with special needs, and with multi-lingual language learning. It is an orally based methodology.
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