I have begun to do research on how music can be used to develop literacy and came across an amazing article on teaching collaborating in music, literacy and math. You can read about it here. Music in Schools Today or Must collaborated with a local elementary school to create a teaching model revolving around incorporating music into academic teaching-language arts, math, reading. They received a $40,000 grant to do this and MILE (Music Integrated Literacy Enhancement) became immediately implemented into the curriculum.
This program was designed to be keep music education's head above water amongst the staggering budget cuts that the entire nation is experiencing. MuST collaborated with an outside technologies company-CitySpan Technologies to create a database where they could review and organize their research, eventually making it available to outside schools. The MILE website is still under construction but contains a printable brochure on the program.
As a music educator, I would have liked to see MILE in action to observe their teaching strategies but it seems that the program is still in its early stages. However, there is a PowerPoint presentation available for download that better illustrates the program. MILE exposes all children to music at a very young age but using musical games and examples to teach children math, reading, etc and is incredibly important in keeping music education alive.
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I came across your website by chance as I was looking for research literature that supported the use of music in promoting literacy. Thanks for the links! Really useful site as we are considering using music in promoting reading literacy for 7 year olds as our research project.
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