Teaching Literacy through Music: Exploring the Possibilities

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Teaching Literacy through MusicExploring the
Possibilities

• By Nayun Ha

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Is Music Really Related to Literacy?
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Why is music important to children Introduction

• Music with movement can develop physical skills
• Playing instruments can help memory, senses, and
  social skills
• Studying music theory can develop math skills
• Singing songs can develop language skills

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Music and Physical Skills

• Clapping to song with different parts of the body
  is an excellent physical activity for babies.
• Dancing to music is a great way for children to
  develop physical rhythm and balance

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Music and Memory, Senses, and Social skills

• Because using music can affect emotion, students
  can remember easily stories and what they learned
  when they play music
• Students can develop their multiple senses
  through playing, watching other musicians,
  reading notes, and listening music
• In music classes, most activities can be in
  groups including playing musical game, having
  music concerts and studying music theory so they
  learn how to cooperate with other people

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Music and Math Skills

• Understanding different parts of music theory
  requires various math concepts fractions,
  intervals, ratios, etc.
• Musical rhythm is a fun way for early children to
  start learning about math

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Music and Language skills

• Early children can start to learn new
  vocabularies by singing new songs
• Students in elementary and middle school adopt
  foreign words, pronunciation, and culture from
  singing and studying songs from other countries

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Sois music related to literacy?
YES!!!