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033 - How to Teach Music Literacy Using Color
If you walk into an elementary classroom, you might notice that everything is color-coded: signs and charts on the wall to labels on bins to pieces of tape marking certain spots on the floor.This is because colors are easy for most young children to recognize and differentiate between.But in music, our baseline is black and white, the colors of standard notation.For this reason, color can be a helpful tool when teaching music literacy and developing music-reading skills. Elementary educator Amy Curletto wrote, “When we use color in a systematic way it can help students retain information…
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