Interdisciplinary Approaches to Learning (Music & Literacy)
Teachers Teaching Teachers
Bekka Jensen, 2025
rjensen@isyedu.org
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Interdisciplinary Approaches
Resources:
Why Teach with an Interdisciplinary Approach?
A Guide for Interdisciplinary Teaching and LEarning
Why Combine Literature And Music:
Picture from:
https://neurosciencenews.com/music-collaberation-brain-18607/
Another interesting article:
Connection 1:
Making a Story into Music
Connection 3:
Making Music into a Story (Program Music)
Connection 2:
Adding Music to a Story To Enhance the Story
Connection 4:
Using Literature as inspiration for music composition
Music / Literature Connections
Connection 1:
Making the Story into Music
La musique est la littérature du cœur ; elle commence là où le langage se perd.”
(Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.)
-Alphonse de Lamartine
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Examples:
Fox In Socks Rap
Llama Llama Rap
Wocket / Pocket Rap
Other Examples : Over In The Meadow
We’re Going On a Bear Hunt
Purpose: (elbow partner, discussion)
Music:
Literacy:
Other:
Connection 2:
Adding Music to a Story To Enhance the Story
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”
― Aldous Huxley, Music at Night and Other Essays
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Examples:
The Magic of Making Sound (Foley)
Story from sounds
The Gruffalo
My Many Colored Days
Purpose: (elbow partner, discussion)
Music:
Literacy:
Other:
Connection 3:
Making Music into a Story (Program Music)
Where words fail, music speaks.”
― Hans Christian Andersen
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Examples:
Paul Dukas
Sergei Prokofiev
Aaron Copland
Purpose: (elbow partner, discussion)
Music:
Literacy:
Other:
Connection 4:
Using Literature as inspiration for music composition
La musique exprime ce qui ne peut pas être dit et sur quoi il est impossible de rester silencieux."
(Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.) – Victor Hugo
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Water Dance
Some people say that I am one thing. Others say that I am many. Ever since the world began I have been moving in an endless circle. Sometimes I fall from the sky.
I am the rain.
Water Dance
Be inspired to create music from a book :)
Purpose: (elbow partner, discussion)
Music:
Literacy:
Other:
Thank you