Introduction -page 4

The words students draw and label are substituted for key words in more than 40 pattern songs that are included in the Animated-Literacy Book Of Pattern Reading, Writing, & Singing Activities.  In Skip To My Lou, children play hide-and-seek with objects and picture words. (I lost my pup, what will I do?)  In A-Hunting We Will Go, students form pretend binoculars with their hands and hunt for toys and rhyming words. (We'll catch a pup, put it in a cup, and then we'll let it go.)  The pattern songs gradually move from substituting for nouns to adjectives (Down On Grandpa's Farm there is a cute, cuddly pup), verbs (The paws on the pup go scratch, scratch, scratch all around the town), and other parts of speech.  Word meaning and function, punctuation, and capitalization are taught and reinforced through this process.  Fluency and comprehension continue to develop as students read, reread, label, and write phrases, sentences, songs, and stories.  Labeling, advanced labeling, and cut and paste scrambled songs and sentences are now available in the two new Animated-Literacy Workbooks of Fluency, Comprehension, And Word Recognition Activities.

This stimulating, multisensory approach to reading, writing, and oral language instruction has been highly successful in integrating literature with basic skills instruction in preschool, kindergarten, first-grade, second-grade, and with older students needing additional help and support. In two pilot studies, student achievement scores on a standardized test (CTBS from McGraw-Hill) were raised from fewer than 25% of students scoring at or above the fiftieth percentile in reading to more than 68%.  Each study included a multilingual, multi-ethnic population of first-grade students. In a later study, the number of students qualifying for reading intervention in first-grade was significantly reduced when Animated-Literacy was introduced in kindergarten.  When the U.S. Department of Education asked the American Speech-Language Association (ASHA) to recommend programs to serve as models for Early Reading First Grants, Animated-Literacy was one of the programs ASHA recommended.  Animated-Literacy has been used successfully with fluent, limited, and non-English speaking students.  Animated-Literacy moves students from the earliest stages of language development to fluency in reading and writing at a third-grade level.

  Back Home