2) Discuss some ways that you can use your art to enhance students acquiring English literacy skills.

First of all, besides the obvious use of dance as a tool for conveying a story, dance can reinforce the love of words. The words in song, story and every conversations can lift students from the ordinasy to the extraordinary. Students love to be read to inspiring their imagination to believe the possibilities.

Through dance and literacy that students are able to master their own learning experiences through engaging in meaningful, sequential and problem-solving relationships witch promote interaction with peers, community and environment. The dance and literacy curriculum for reading, writing, listening, and speaking students are able to more easily understand English especially immigrant students and dance class to improve reading skills as well as enhance kinetic knowledge through text. And also students will learn gathering and sharing information, persuading others, expressing and understanding ideas, coordinating activities with others and selecting and critically analyzing messages throughout dance and literacy.

Here is an example simple lesson of dance and literacy.

-Action Words-
Ask for a few examples of fo action words( jump, leap, twist, run, swing, hop..). And explain that they will choreography a dance based on action words.

Through this lesson students will be able to indentify verbs and choreography a dance based on action words.