Integrating Literacy within the Performance Classroom

Abstract

Music teachers may be tasked with documenting ways in which broader literacy skills have been embedded in music teaching. As a result, musical goals might seem to take a secondary role in support of broader language-literacy skills. Enhancing music literacy should be the goal of well-designed integration. The suggestions here provide music teachers with short, targeted integration to more complex, multimodal approaches that connect assignments with music-specific outcomes. Music teachers can add broader literacy goals to their pedagogical repertoire for the large-ensemble classroom.