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Apropos of 21st Century Skills (see below), is this a form of literacy? Is understanding this a form of critical thinking? The post describes, briefly, a taxonomy described by Anne Green Gilbert. "Anne's book, Teaching the Three R's Through Movement, focuses on dance, and in particular using movement to express a feeling about a word or concept (akin to role-play?), ownership (getting IN to the idea, living the idea), and reinforcement (spelling words with your body, hopping or doing other repetitive movement whilst calling out words that rhyme etc.)."

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