Edu 300 - Reading on Music

Mario Ward

Professor

September 9, 2010

EDUC 300

This is a fascinating study and I strongly believe that music can help improve your child's abilities in academics. When I was a child my mother always signed me up for different activities like the neighborhood band, basketball, baseball, soccer, and football because she always said that learning organized activities is a great learning tool that I could take on with me for the rest of my life. My mother also made sure I was in church every Sunday morning, I played the bass in the church band and sometimes I would play the piano after church service. It was very difficult to understand how to play the piano because I would have to know all the notes and when to hit the black keys versus when to hit the white keys. Learning how to play the piano gave me a lot of practices with reading because I had to sit at the piano and read the notes over and over until I got them right. Music helped me out a lot because now I have a habit of reading things over and over again until I get the message just like I would have if I was at the piano. Now that I am older I understand why my mother put me in every activity that she did because it taught me responsibilities and gave me a better direction on life. My mother was not the only one who thought that music and other activities would benefit me throughout school, Joseph M Piro and Camilo Ortiz from Long Island University, USA had studied data that would help clarify that the role of music would enhance school performance in language and literacy. Students being exposed to instrumental music training may enhance auditory discrimination, fine motor skills, vocabulary, and verbal sequencing. Music expands vocabulary in today's society because as you are learning new music you are also learning new words and how to use them. You are also being exposed to what the words mean that come along in the music. Children tend to love music so much that they look at it as exciting and not as a learning tool. It is a great way to expose them to what else is out there. Music is a fun and creative way to learn as well because you are not just sitting there bored with pen and paper reading stories and writing, but instead you are actively engaging in activities that you enjoy. The