I would like to thanks the Learning Support team who are helping me introduce our students to SLS and Karaoke Party to help develop their reading and language skills. In particular, I would like to Debbie Wesson who has been driving the agenda within her team following our meeting last week.
I am very proud to present her first blog post on SLS from within Learning Support.
Met with K Still on 30/6/2011 to discuss SLS (same language subtitles), which resulted in a very productive afternoon.
Firstly we accessed the Karaoke Party website to view songs available. Kristian had already researched various sites but this one appeared to benefit the students the most as results on performance were available. It was then decided to surf the web to determine if there were any web sites available to supply lyrics for the song, in order to determine the suitability of the words.
We discovered a website azlyrics which had most of the lyrics, from the songs available on Party Karaoke.
Our next line of thought was towards the need to assess the reading criteria, to ascertain the reading age of the lyrics. Therefore, being able to establish the correct provision for the students and to monitor any progress made.
After researching a few sites we located juicystudio, which indicated the reading age using the Flesch-Kincaid grade level.
This appears to be an exciting and interesting intervention programme, which the students should be able to engage in, with the advantage of being available at home.
We also deliberated regarding the learning potential with regard to promoting their reading skills and the progression to spelling, meaning of words, extension of vocabulary and synonyms.
I hope to be able to report Debbie’s successes and reflections in the coming weeks.
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Hi! Great to see someone else experimenting with SLS n the classroom!
Check out my site and study on SLS at http://www.sls4reading.com
http://sls4reading.com/Paper.aspx
Also –try http://www.karafun.com/karaokeeditor/ –the free trial is great –your students will love making their own products too. Plus site has well done Karaoke for sell.
Also for a library of teacher Karafun files:
http://community.eflclassroom.com/page/page/show?id=826870%3APage%3A30856 —- you may need to join http://community.eflclassroom.com/index.php to access.
Great! I have been searching / reading / exploring the topic for a while and in fact I think I used your site for reference.
Its now being lead by the support team here and I have been so impressed. Where are you heading with SLS now?
Mostly we have used for student projects -you can find some posted on YouTube or Facebook under Same-Language-Subtitling.
I am at a ‘restructuring’ school, and while my previous years/study showed dramatic impact on students/reading growth, my school failed Adequate Yearly Growth. An outside agency now dictates what/how I teach. I currently teach within Scholastic’s Read180 program.
The SLS/Karafun projects are now in one of the technology classes as only a unit project.
The format I used in my study of SLS — SLS Musicals with Cloze worksheets for 20 minutes — that was very simple and very effective. I am hoping to see someone else replicate/or experiment with SLS activities in a classroom study soon.
In the mean while, I am trying to get Disney and other Music Video producers to be aware of potential impact of SLS and to increase usage.
SLS is so cheap, so simple –one would expect an easy sell.