Intersection Between Music and Literacy Term Paper

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Further, the work of Frances Rauscher, Gordon Shaw and their colleagues of the University of California, Irvine, on what is termed 'The Mozart Effect' reports research that show a causal relationship between aspects of intelligence and music.

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Practical application of the principles related by Fisher and McDonald in the classroom that this researcher finds most relevant in early literacy instruction combined with music instruction is the technique related by which the teacher asks the students after they have learned the song the questions of: (1) who; (2) what; (3) when; (4) where which provides an excellent method for instructing students in terms of sentence structure and in terms of vocabulary "within meaningful, active, and expressive contents.

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" (Fisher and McDonald, nd) an example of this method of literacy instruction using music is to make PowerPoint slides of songs to use when teaching the songs to students with the 'who', 'what', 'when' and 'where' initially marked in the presentation with color-coded words so that students are not initially seeking these components. Gradually, the color-coding may be removed with the teacher quizzing students for this components which will over time become very natural for students to identify in the song sentence structure and will assist students in reading instruction much in the same manner through a sound base of understanding noun, verb, adjective and adverb identification within sentence structures during literacy instruction in.....

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