Let’s Move! Join as DANCECleveland’s Read To Learn…Dance To Move Instructor, Connie Laettner, guides your child through our literacy and movement program designed for children ages 3-6. Read To Learn…Dance to Move is a curriculum-based program that promotes language, literacy, and movement by engaging students through tactile learning, creative thinking, and imagination! Children will learn about a form of dance while promoting language and literacy development in young children through movement. In this 30-minute class, our instructor will introduce movement and incorporate the children’s book Rap a Tap Tap: Here’s Bojangles – Think of That! by Leo and Diane Dillon. The book leads to an exploration of the story and the dance form through virtual open-ended questions from the instructor. Next, the children experiment with movement. Finally, the instructor teaches a dance that retells the story and everyone will perform the new dance together at home. Read to Learn… Dance To Move is a copyrighted program of DANCECleveland.

Thank you to our generous program funders including The Ohio Arts Council, The Reinberger Foundation, The Bruening Foundation, & Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation. Thanks to those of you who participated in our Read to Learn…Dance to Move class today! If you participated, please take this short survey to help us design further online events. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FA… This program was designed as an 8-week program for the public school systems. To learn more about the program and getting it in your schools, visit: https://www.dancecleveland.org/educat… Looking for more movement? We encourage parents to watch these other videos. https://youtu.be/wtHvetGnOdM About Your Instructor Connie Laettner: Connie Laettner has been singing and dancing for over 29 years, beginning with her training at the Buffalo Academy for the Visual and Performing Arts and continuing at Baldwin-Wallace College where she earned her B.A. in dance in 2003. She choreographs musicals and show choirs for NE Ohio schools, is a teaching artist for various dance outreach programs that serve underprivileged children in Cleveland and in Akron, and is both a choreographer and performer in local community theatres. She has recently been in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Shrek, Pippin, Aida, Big Fish, Beauty and the Beast, and is looking forward to adding more to the list this year! Connie also is a full-time dance instructor, teaching all ages and styles of dance! *Thank you to Dancexcel Studio for the use of studio space. https://dancexcelstudio.com/