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The author believes that music not only helps children learn to read but also to love it. Her process includes teaching the children a tune, then lyrics and finally giving them the written lyrics to read. She states that children have a disposition to rhyme and melody which makes singing and music the perfect tool.

An Article focusing on a summer institute that integrated arts into language arts. The institute taught teachers to use music, movement, visual art, drama, and film to enhance the classroom experience and help student's literacy. The authors then surveyed the participants one year later. Results showed that those who responded to the survey were still using art to help teach.

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This article involves the teaching of children a specific structure of music and how being able to integrate songs and proper music technique into the classroom is beneficial to literacy

This essay is an overview of the theoretical, methodological, pedagogical, ideological, and power-related issues of world Englishes: varieties of English used in diverse sociolinguistic contexts. The scholars in this field have critically examined theoretical and methodological frameworks of language use based on western, essentially monolingual and monocultural, frameworks of linguistic science and replaced them with frameworks that are faithful to multilingualism and language variation. This conceptual shift affords a "pluricentric" view of English, which represents diverse sociolinguistic histories, multicultural identities, multiple norms of use and acquisition, and distinct contexts of function. The implications of this shift for learning and teaching world Englishes are critically reviewed in the final sections of this essay.

This article is based on the curriculum that is in the schools today with reference to the Bible, as well as the issues such as "The Freedom of Church and State." Throughout the article he describes the curriculum as lower than standard. Another issue that the author explained in this document was that all the references to the Bible were of protestant origin.

The author states that music and reading are essentially learned the same way. He provides evidence by breaking down the learning process and comparing the music and reading skills. Though music can be beneficial to reading, Chappell warns that music still needs to be it's own course.

The piece by Bronwyn Williams talks about how teachers do not look at the ways reading and writing are presented in culture, but if they do, it is uncommon. He takes into account how popular movies and television programs have people reading in writing. In addition, Williams explains that these popular cultures will influence today's adolescents.

Brain scans are helping neurologists and other scientists develop new learning techniques.