The Music and Literacy Connection

Pt. II. Principle 2: Music teachers are literacy teachers; classroom literacy teachers are music teachers. 3. Music in the reading environment: decoding : Enhancing reading strategies using music ; Phonological awareness ; Phonemic awareness ; Rhyming ; Sentence segmentation: words and sentences ; Awareness of syllables: syllable segmentation and blending ; Initial and final sounds: Onset rhyme, blending, and segmentation ; Phonemes: blending and segmenting individual phonemes ; Phonemic awareness and phonics instruction ; Sight identification ; Graphophonemic awareness ; Cueing-system awareness ; Fluency ; Exercises for professional learning -- 4. Reading in the music environment: decoding : Enhancing music and reading strategies: completing the connection loop ; Developing specific decoding skills in the music classroom ; Exercises for professional learning -- 5. Music in the reading environment: comprehension : Acquiring conceptual understanding ; Curricular integration ; Strategies used before reading ; Questioning strategies ; Standards addressed ; Teaching conceptually ; Exercises for professional learning -- 6. Reading in the music environment: comprehension : Attention ; Working memory ; Long-term memory ; Comprehending music elements: developing conceptual understanding of music graphic organizers ; Inquiry in the music classroom ; Modeling ; Building a vocabulary ; Cooperative-learning activities ; Some cooperative-learning group techniques ; Reflecting on teaching for musical understanding ; Exercises for professional learning -- 7. Considerations, adaptations, enhancements : Music in the reading environment ; Enhancements through media: helpful or hurtful for comprehension? ; Reading in the music environment ; Adaptations across reading and music environments ; Enhancements across reading and music environments ; Special education and English language learners ; Universal design for learning ; Differentiated instruction ; Ten applications for materials in this chapter ; Exercises for professional learning