Effective ways to integrate music across the curriculum.

Here are some of the most effective ways to integrate music across the curriculum:

Play factually-oriented songs to make direct instruction more interesting
Download and complete printable worksheets and activity pages to re-enforce lessons
Read or sing along with the lyrics to help encode information more fully (hint: singing is a great tool for building a sense of community within the classroom)
Download and complete Cloze reading exercises to engage higher level reasoning and comprehension skills
Use the Wikipedia-referenced lyrics to explore key vocabulary and key concepts in depth
Study key vocabulary and concepts view to learn how to summarize and spot key ideas
Print and use flash cards to gain mastery of key concepts
Listen to a song to introduce a new subject
Listen to one or more songs to set or change the mood of the classroom
As an art project, have students illustrate their favorite part of a song
Create and display a list of target vocabulary words. Listen for them in the song

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