LITERACY IN MUSIC ED

1. LITERACY IN MUSIC ED Louis Russo Tech Resources for Performing Arts Educators Prof. Chianan Yen

2. Promoting Literacy Through Music
By Laura Woodall and Brenda Ziembroski • http://www.songsforteaching.com/lb/literacymusic.htm • I began my search for links in google, with the search term "literacy in music education." This was the first hit. • This site provides some good information in an easily digestible format, but I don't consider it to be very academic. First and foremost, the .com address gives it away as a for-profit commercial enterprise. The fact that images of major credit cards with the text "purchase orders accepted" is juxtaposed with information about children's learning just erodes its credibility as a scholarly source. I included it, however, because anyone who googles "literacy in music education" will undoubtedly come across it.

3. DEVELOPING LITERACY THROUGH MUSIC By Jean McIntire • http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/search/detailmini.jsp?_nfpb=true&_&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=EJ773335&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=no&accno=EJ773335 • For my next link, I chose to pursue something more reputable. • ERIC is the Education Resources Information Center, and is a supremely valuable database for education. It is also .gov, furthering its credibility. This article is linked through ERIC, and appeared in the MENC journal. • This is a resource I would comfortably recommend to my colleagues.

4. LITERACY SKILLS IN MUSIC CLASS: TOOLS FOR PRESERVICE TEACHER GROWTH By Alice Feret and Judy Smith • http://www-usr.rider.edu/~vrme/v15n1/visions/Literary%20Skills%20in%20Music%20Class.Feret%20and%20Smith.pdf • Using the same google search terms, I found my third article. • This article also comes from a .edu source. This was particularly interesting to me because I am in a pre-service teacher training program. • I would similarly recommend this title to my colleagues.

5. EARLY LANGUAGE LEARNING WITH AND WITHOUT MUSICBy Douglas Fisher • http://scholarworks.wmich.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1179&context=reading_horizons • For the fourth and fifth articles, I changed my search terms in google to "English Literacy in Music Education." • This was another article that search yielded. • Also from academia, this article seems reputable.

6. Improving children's literacy, one note at a time By Johanna Brown and Stephen Chamblee • http://www.kennesaw.edu/arts/flourish/flourish_9-2/story_children_literacy.shtml • This final article might be an example of how .edu does not ensure reputability. • This article to me is not entirely scholarly, and it appeared in "Flourish Online Magazine." • However, I found it through the Kennesaw University College of the Arts website.