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Download full textRidout, Susan Ramp – 1990
Based on the premise that children's natural love for music makes it appropriate to use songs as a motivational vehicle for reading and writing, this paper presents a reading/singing strategy which promotes vocabulary, word recognition, writing, and comprehension skills while providing appreciation of music. The paper briefly discusses the eight…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Directed Reading Activity, Elementary Education, Harmony (Music)
