Benefits for
Children
• Reading teachers for many years have embraced the
fact that music can be used as an aid to the developing
reader.  
• Many parallels can be drawn between reading music
and learning to read.
• Music is read from left to right and top to bottom just
like reading words.
• The addition of music into the literacy learning settings
may aid in language development while promoting
musical development at the same time.
• A music-integrated literacy environment nurtures auditory
and visual discrimination, eye-motor coordination, visual
sequential memory, language reception, vocabulary
development.
• In the early learning stages music engaging environment
encourages children to engage in reading activities.
• Music helps children to become active listeners and also
promotes comprehension and dialogue.
• Literacy and music are both developed along the same
continuum.
Source: Wiggins, Donna. "Pre-K Music and the Emergent Reader:
PromotingLiteracy in a Music-Enhanced Environment." Early
Childhood EducationJournal 35.1 (2007): 55-64. Academic Search
Premier. EBSCO. Web. 16 Apr. 2011.