Music and Literacy: Literacy and Music

Over the past couple of years we have been working to use rhymes in the elementary music classroom to help our students with steady beat and music literacy. Our classroom educators also include rhymes through their teaching of reading. Research has shown over and over the benefits of rhymes in early reading and music. Here are a few articles that I have found:

Aural Skills: At the Juncture of Research in Early Reading and Music Literacy

Music and Reading: Finding Connections From Within

With that I have worked to develop recordings and QR codes to be used in both the music classroom and classroom. I am excited to share this work and can't wait to see how it benefits our students.

Here is an example of what I have developed to help our students and educators.

Recording on SoundCloud:
Wee Willie Winkie

Wee Willie Winkie
Runs through the town.
Upstairs and downstairs in his nightgown.
Tapping at the windows, crying through the locks...
Are all the children in their beds?
It's past eight o'clock.