{"id":127236,"date":"2020-09-17T10:56:45","date_gmt":"2020-09-17T20:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=127236"},"modified":"2024-03-15T13:57:13","modified_gmt":"2024-03-15T23:57:13","slug":"students-parody-encourages-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2020\/09\/17\/students-parody-encourages-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"College of Education student\u2019s hip hop parody encourages reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><div class=\"responsive-video-wrap-post\"><figure class=\"wp-block-embed wp-block-embed-youtube is-type-video is-provider-youtube epyt-figure\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe  id=\"_ytid_39021\"  width=\"620\" height=\"349\"  data-origwidth=\"620\" data-origheight=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UVW7V5AUYGA?enablejsapi=1&origin=https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu&rel=0&autoplay=0&cc_load_policy=0&cc_lang_pref=&iv_load_policy=1&loop=0&fs=1&playsinline=0&autohide=2&theme=dark&color=red&controls=1&disablekb=0&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"Let&#039;s Read, Baby!\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><\/figure><\/div>\n<p>A master of education in teaching (<abbr title=\"master of education in teaching\">MEdT<\/abbr>) program student in the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M\u0101noa\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/coe.hawaii.edu\/\">College of Education<\/a> has taken teaching her first grade students how to read to a whole other level. <\/p>\n<p><span aria-label=\"Maemae\">Ma&#699;ema&#699;e<\/span> Elementary School teacher <strong>Carissa Kano<\/strong> created a parody version of the ear-catching tune <em>Ice Ice Baby<\/em> to talk about the importance of reading every day and share reading strategies. <em><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/UVW7V5AUYGA\">Let\u2019s Read Baby<\/a><\/em> stars Kano and her colleagues, including Principal Lenn Uyeda. The idea was born out of an attempt to drum up excitement surrounding her students\u2019 September reading challenge. <\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_127213\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-127213\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Kano.MEdT_.YouTube.jpg\" alt=\"female\" width=\"250\" height=\"350\" class=\"size-full wp-image-127213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Kano.MEdT_.YouTube.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Kano.MEdT_.YouTube-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Kano.MEdT_.YouTube-93x130.jpg 93w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-127213\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carissa Kano<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Although this is the first year she is teaching at <span aria-label=\"Maemae\">Ma&#699;ema&#699;e<\/span>, Kano is no stranger to the education field. Both of her parents are longtime educators. Having previously taught at Trinity Christian School for four years, as well as at a preschool in Japan and a high school in Chicago over summer breaks, Kano started making fun videos while teaching online at Trinity in 2019 so her students would look forward to doing their assignments on their own. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I believe that if you create a safe and loving environment, there is no limit to what students can do and the impact they can have on their families and communities,&rdquo; said Kano. &ldquo;Even through distance learning, it is still my job to make sure students know I care about them and will try my best to make learning fun.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>She added, &ldquo;My parents have always emphasized the importance of building relationships. I can&#8217;t count how many times both of my parents have bumped into their grown students at Costco or at a restaurant and they cry and tell me how much my parents impacted their lives. This is why I&#8217;ve always wanted to be a teacher. I am thankful to be learning how to continue to grow as an educator in the <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> <abbr>MEdT<\/abbr> Program.&rdquo;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><em>Let\u2019s Read Baby<\/em> talks about the importance of reading every day and gives reading strategies. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[95,908,204,507,933,9,56,1626],"class_list":["post-127236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-people","tag-college-of-education","tag-early-childhood-education","tag-education","tag-graduate-education","tag-teacher-education","tag-uh-manoa","tag-video-2","tag-women-of-uh","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127236"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127338,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127236\/revisions\/127338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}