*The italicized font is the title of the article, followed by its annotation. 

      

Let’s Bring Back the Magic of Song For Teaching Reading

Iwasaki, B., Rasinski, T., Yildirim, K., & Zimmerman, B. S. (2013). Let's bring back the magic of song for teaching reading. Reading Teacher, 67(2), 137-141. doi:10.1002/TRTR.1203

 

This article strongly supports incorporating song and music into reading instruction in a mainstream classroom. The author supports and emphasizes the benefits music has when applied to reading instruction and the students overall achievement in literacy.

 

 

Arts in education: Professional development integrating the arts and collaborating with schools and community

Vitulli, P., Santoli, S. P., & Fresne, J. (2013). Arts in education: professional development integrating the arts and collaborating with schools and community. International Journal Of Pedagogies & Learning, 8(1), 45-52.

 

This article focuses on a more holistic view of incorporating arts into the classroom to benefit student’s creativity to express and stimulate their imagination. It not only discussed integrating music into a classroom but integrating arts as a whole. As mentioned in the article, “The arts (music) serve as an ‘alternative pathway’ for students to understand concepts and demonstrate their knowledge of content.”

 

 

Teaching Reading

Smith, J. A. (2000). Singing and songwriting support early literacy instruction. Reading Teacher, 53(8), 646-49.

 

This article was beneficial to my research because it offered information of specific examples of how singing in the mainstream classroom can improve students’ academic literacy development. The article discussed areas of improvement such as, phonemic awareness, word identification, vocabulary, and print conventions. Through each section is thoroughly described in detail outlining the major benefits music can have on the child and their learning.

 

 

Teaching Reading

Kolb, G. R. (1996). Read with a beat: developing literacy through music and song (teaching reading). Reading Teacher, 50(1), 76-77.

 

I chose this article because it emphasizes the children feeling a wholeness through language by being immersed into music. It clearly breaks down the various aspects of literacy that integrating music can impact as well as providing examples of how to incorporate music. For example, under the title “book concepts”, the author went into detail of the many opportunities where music could be integrated. These might include, shared reading experiences, and book talks. There are many examples provided through the article that are realistic for teachers to implement on a daily basis and exposes to students to a new way of learning the content.

 

 

Using Songs to Strengthen Reading Fluency

Patel, P., & Laud, L. E. (2007). Using songs to strengthen reading fluency. Teaching Exceptional Children Plus, 4(2), 1-17.

 

This article deemed beneficial to my research because it emphasizes the impacts using music to strengthen literacy can improve a student’s fluency. According to the article, researchers have determined that using songs when teaching literacy not only improves oral language development, but their motivation for reading and their fluency skills as well. Through the article, case studies were given to the reader as examples of the benefits for integrating music into various aspects of literacy content. This strengthened the articles credibility for me as the reader.

 

 

Using Music to Support the Literacy Development of Young English Language Learners

Paquette, K., & Rieg, S. (2008). Using music to support the literacy development of young english language learners. Early Childhood Education Journal, 36(3), 227-232. doi:10.1007/s10643-008-0277-9.

 

This article was beneficial to the scope of my research because it focuses on integrating music into instruction to target EL students. This is a very relevant topic due to the many students within school systems that need extra assistance in learning English. EL students are often already behind in literacy development, therefore using techniques such as incorporating music into instruction can improve students literacy development all the way around. The article discusses step by step how to teach a song to students, and thoroughly expresses the numerous benefits teaching music can have on a student’s development. This was a very beneficial article to access for my research.

 

 

Musical Thought: Using Music to Enhance Literacy Instruction

Dyer, J. L. (2011). Musical thought: using music to enhance literacy instruction. Illinois Reading Council Journal, 39(4), 3-9.

 

This article discusses how the brain and hearing music are correlated. The article states, “The human brain is built for sound.” Researchers go into detail in this article about the positive effects that teaching content through music can have on the students learning development. The article continues to describe to numerous outcomes that music can have on a student such as literacy development skills as well at motivation and engagement. This article provided so much useful information describing some ways to incorporate teaching music such as in picture books and having the students write their own lyrics. This article was very beneficial for my current research topic.

 

 

Using Music to Engage Children in Literacy and History

Frasher, K. D. (2014). Music and literacy: strategies using "comprehension connections" by Tanny McGregor. General Music Today, 27(3), 6-9.

 

I liked this article because I am very familiar with Tanny McGregor and her text, “Comprehension Connections.” I have taught numerous lessons from her text, and I consider her to be a beneficial and reliable text source. This article provides examples of how to foster learning literacy and history through music. This article explains this by providing before, during and after activities that would help the teacher guide instruction productively.  I liked this article because it applied real life teaching situations, and made the information very relatable. This article outlined not only positive activities to implement but provided the reader with why using them would be beneficial for students.