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Teacher Singing Across the Curriculum by William Bintz
|Grades||K – 5| This article describes one attempt to use
singing as an instructional strategy to help all students learn
across the curriculum. It begins with background on the author's
early experiences with singing. Then, it shares professional
literature on the relationship between singing, song, and
literacy development. Next, it describes singing as an
instructional strategy and share samples of students' work that
resulted from this engagement. It ends with lessons learned from
the whole experience. The aim of the article is to describe an
instructional strategy that can help students use reading and
writing as tools to learn across the content areas.