– use for student self-assessment of oral skills – have a poetry slam– partners or triads mix poems with music around the same theme – teach rhythm and rhyme using the free instruments – retell an Aboriginal tale or a short story Other ideas for using Garage Band for Literacy and Language Arts: I was amazed! And that’s when it hit me, kids would practice their reading fluency and oral communication skills without complaint if we had them do it in this context. She absolutely refused until she realized I was talking about Garage Band and then, low and behold, she rehearsed a poem by Langston Hughes and recorded and re-recorded probably close to a dozen times. When we were preparing for the presentation, I asked her to recite a stanza of a poem for me and to help me put it to music. She would rather scrub toilets than read anything. They don’t practice because they don’t enjoy reading. Struggling readers continue to be struggling readers because they don’t practice. The Oral Communication strand is all about speaking for a specific purpose and audience and the Reading strand speaks to “reading fluency.”
#USING GARAGE BAND HOW TO#
Our friendly neighbourhood Computers in the Classroom Consultant (who taught everyone how to use it wonderfully), cited the fact that at the height of their career, The Beatles had equipment that could only mix 4 tracks, while the free version of Garage Band allows the creator to use 16!!Īnd though the main focus was on music creation, I couldn’t help but wear my Literacy hat to think about how you could use Garage Band in Language Arts (Ontario). We recently showcased Garage Band to our 21C teams and it is incredible.
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