Impact of music instruction on literacy

The May 2009 (Monograph #19) Ministry series What Works  Research Into Practice is titled Placing Music at the Centre of Literacy Instruction.  Children benefit from music instruction; it helps with memory, auditory perception, metacognitive and phonolgoical memory. The authors recommend the following techniques to aid in music and literacy learning:  singing, using percussion, melody, expressing song in writing.

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