Need a reading
teacher for you child?
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Look no further than
your music instructor.
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Children cannot read fluently
without three key pillars.
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Oral discrimination,
sequential learning,
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and midline development.
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Whether the children are
singing, playing, or listening,
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classroom teachers are
directing them to listen
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and hear, which is
oral discrimination.
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They're doing this in new ways:
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By exposing children
to many types of sounds,
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children's voices develop.
Even perhaps from the dull
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expressionless monotone to a
wide range of pitches, volumes,
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and subtleties'. As music
instruction adds instruments
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and movement, we are
addressing sequential learning.
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This is of course important
for math, but equally important
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to developing literate children.
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How many courses can
really teach sequential learning
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with as much involvement
and with such ease as can
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the music specialist
with a simple singing game,
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play party or a folk dance.
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Finally, no child can
read fluently without crossing
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the midline of
the body fluently.
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Our eyes must travel easily
from left to right and back
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in order to read.
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Many children who are struggling
with reading do not have
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adequately developed
midline crossing skills.
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It is very difficult to
train the eyes to do this,
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however, if taught
through large motor skills,
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midline crossing skills almost
magically transfer to fluid
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eye movement from reading.
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So as children learn crossover
?...on barred instruments,
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or as they wave streamers
in a figure 8 pattern for a
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Chinese Ribbon Dance,
play shadows and mirrors,
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dance a grapevine, play a
rhythmic rock passing game
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or such. Music classes helping
with fluid midline issues
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and with the right,
left-brain integration.
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Who else but a music educator
is able to achieve these goals
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and still, have
fun with our children?
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Who else can do all this
and have children love to come
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to class? Who else can do
all this and have the children
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think they are getting
out of the drudgery of school
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and just coming
to have some fun?
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We don't have to tell the
students our little secret
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but as parents and educators,
we should never forget the many
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values of quality
classroom music programs.
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I'm Jennifer
LaMountain reminding you,
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God has created each one
of us with a musical mind.
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