Music and literature

1. Using Literature in the
Music Room
Tenessa Martin
Assignment #6– Digital Storytelling

2. Pre-K and 1st Grade Literature
*These are ideas for implementing literature in the music room.*
 Brown Bear, Brown Bear by Eric Carle
 The Very Busy Spider by Eric Carle
 The Little Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly by N.B.
Wescott
 The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything
by Linda Williams

3. Brown Bear, Brown Bear
by Eric Carle
 Teacher: sing book on S-M
 Teacher: sing questions
 Children: sing answers

4. The Very Busy Spider
by Eric Carle
 Teacher: (rote) teach
ostinato pattern “the
spider kept on working,
until the job was done.”
 Teacher: read story
 Children: insert ostinato
pattern after each page

5. The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of
Anything
by Linda Williams
 Teacher: add instruments
to imitate the pumpkin
 Suggestions:
 Clomp, clomp= drum
 Wiggle, wiggle= jingle bells
 Shake, shake= shakers
 Clap, clap= handclaps
 Nod, nod= woodblock

6. I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a
Fly
by Nadine Bernard Wescott
 Teacher: sing book and
invite children to join

7. 2nd-4th Grade Literature
*These are ideas for implementing literature in the music room.*
 Possum Come a Konockin’ by Nancy Van Laan
 The Very Busy Spider by Eric Carle
 The Little Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly by N.B.
Wescott
 The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything
by Linda Williams

8. Possum Come a Knockin’
by Nancy Van Leer
 Teacher: add instruments
for characters
 Children: act out

9. The Very Busy Spider
by Eric Carle
 Teacher: (rote) teach
ostinato pattern “the
spider kept on working,
until the job was done.”
 Teacher: read story
 Children: insert ostinato
pattern after each page

10. http://herdingcatsgeorge.blogspot.com/2011/05/literature-in-
music-classroom-2.html