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The Hip-Hop Educational Literacy
Program (H.E.L.P.) was created and designed by
Educational
Lyrics. H.E.L.P.
combines the language and music of the Hip Hop genre to teach reading
and writing skills. Based on
National Literacy Standards, H.E.L.P. uses Hip Hop lyrics to address
different learning styles and teach to multiple intelligences.
Our instructors will use H.E.L.P. to connect with the best and
the brightest, as well as those students who have unmotivated to read or
write. H.E.L.P. addressed
the five essential components of effective reading instruction
established by the National Reading Panel in 2000 (fluency, phonetics,
phonemic awareness, vocabulary, and comprehension).
H.E.L.P. activities include opportunities for students to practice:
-Phonemic
awareness and phonic skills, including:
identifying, creating, and using rhyming words; studying word
families; and reading irregularly spelled words.
-Fluency
skills, including: echo and repeated
reading, and performance of original writing.
-Vocabulary
development, including: explicit and
implicit learning of new words, using dictionaries and thesauri,
reading sight words, figurative language, and connecting words in
their speaking and listening vocabulary to their reading and writing
vocabulary.
-Reading
comprehension, including: opportunities to
read with a purpose comparing texts, using and analyzing poetic
devices, identifying explicit and implicit meanings, character
studies, and discussion groups.
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