Children love to express themselves through movement—and with this great new resource, you can guide them through a range of actions and dances that will help them develop both physically and mentally.
Lesson Plans for Creative Dance: Connecting With Literature, Arts, and Music is a resource for physical educators, classroom teachers, and dance specialists as well as a useful supplement to college level elementary education courses. Author Sally Carline has tested and refined the creative movement activities that she has prepared for educators and for preservice teachers, and she includes background material that will ground you in understanding how to best teach and incorporate movement activities in a variety of classes and settings.
Part I: Introduction to Teaching Creative Dance
Chapter 1. Teaching and Assessing Creative Dance
Chapter 2. Introductory Activities
Part II: Dances With Literature, Arts, and Rhythm
Chapter 3. Dances With Action Words and Visual Aids
Chapter 4. Dances With Action Rhymes
Chapter 5. Dances With Poetry
Chapter 6. Dances With Rhythm
Part III: Dances With Music
Chapter 7. Dances for Ages 4 to 6
Chapter 8. Dances for Ages 5 to 7
Chapter 9. Dances for Ages 6 to 8
Chapter 10. Dances for Ages 7 to 9
Chapter 11. Dances for Ages 8 to 10
Chapter 12. Dances for Ages 9 to 11
Chapter 13. Dances for Ages 10 to 12
Sally Carline, MA, qualified as a teacher at I.M. March College of Physical Education in the UK and taught in secondary school before moving to Canada, where she completed her BEd and MA at the University of Alberta. She taught at the elementary school level and then as a sessional lecturer at the University of Alberta until her retirement in 2010. Sally has taught creative dance to children ages 4 through 12 since 1975 and is head of the Children’s Creative Dance Program in Edmonton. She has conducted numerous in-services and professional development seminars on creative dance and has a variety of publications in the field of dance and movement education.