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br The Intersection Between Music and Early Literacy Instruction Listening To Literacy A Critique and Collection of Classroom Concepts

The Intersection Between Music and Early Literacy Instruction Listening To Literacy A Summary , Critique , and Collection of Classroom Concepts Summary

The Intersection Between Music and Early Literacy Instruction Listening To Literacy ' authored by Douglas Fisher and Nan McDonald stresses the importance of the artistic expression in schools in relation to its enhancement of literacy development . Students show progress when there is a bridge between sound and sight and many musical

br concepts can help achieve the needed progress . Fisher and McDonald discuss the use of rhyme , songs /chants , and storybooks to help children put together both audio and visual understanding of words to help them with other more challenging aspects of reading . Learning to read must be fun , especially in its initial stages , because some of the difficult aspects of literacy understanding , such as concepts of print , a sense of story and sequence , and phonemic awareness and phonics can be very challenging for a young child

The authors go into detail on the different structural goals of literacy and a correlating musical concept that can be used in conjunction with each goal . The examples are models that can be used to assist not only teachers in classrooms , but are agreed by both Fisher and McDonald , to be concepts that should be shared with colleagues to communicate the need for this type of innovative approach in all schools . Similarly the authors agree that administrators and parents should be given resources to continue this approach to literacy and advise advocacy of this practice through avenues , such as websites , newsletters , and bulletin boards

Critique

Fisher and McDonald are very thorough in their explanations of both the educational literacy goals in early learning and age-appropriate musical uses to foster faster and better learning . They admit to having been privileged in seeing these resources in action on the part of music teachers helping to implement this type of learning approach . They also , use citations from experts in the field to back-up the information that they provide , making this a more credible read . The article is rather short , as well , making it something that can be analyzed and implemented quickly . Without a great deal of jargon , this article can be understood easily and passed on to parents and people outside of the teaching profession . This article is not only educational in scope , but presented in an activist fashion to help the type of instruction they believe to be best , so it is a unique read

These are the best types of articles , those which are short , to the point , and advocate a strong position . There are no research questions or unclear conclusions that demand further research . The authors write in a way that makes them experts and advocates and encourage others to do the same . There is , also , a global context to the , making it easy for teachers and others across the world to understand the concepts and...