Music and Reading Readiness.

Abstract

There are probably dozens of reasons why music should be an important part of the preschool and primary school child's daily curriculum. The sense of well-being which a child feels when singing a familiar song or listening to a favorite recording is reason enough. But because music is a happy experience for most young children, it offers unique opportunities to effect cognitive development in many areas of instruction. Everything that is done well must be done easily, and if it can be done joyously, too, so much the better.1 In many school experiences, music can add that important component, joy, to intellectual tasks. One of the curricular areas where music

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