Invented musical notation productions : a new way to approach writing at the preschool level
This research focuses on writing awareness through music. Over a 10 week period, 17 kindergarten pupils participated in a program where their ability to write music was evaluated by examining their graphic productions called invented notations. Our results show that few children were able to use a musical graphic code during the pre-test, but the majority of them used it during the post-test. Their metagraphic comments reveal that many of these young writers were able to establish links between musical writing and graphic scripts. In summary, it seems that musical education could be a complementary approach to pre-reading and pre-writing skills for preschool children.