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Support Young Children’s Language Learning and Pre-Literacy Skills with Music
Thursday, May 2, 2024 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm EDT
Presented by Lili M. Levinowitz, Ph.D., Director of Research, Music Together Worldwide, and Professor Emerita of Music Education, Rowan University
Moderated by Lisa Chouteau, Senior Video Producer and Manager of Video Production, Music Together Worldwide
Sponsored by Music Together Worldwide
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We all know that children love music! While singing and dancing to music is enjoyable at any age, making music together with young children also helps develop a host of important skills, including language and literacy skills. During this interactive edWebinar, we’ll explore how and why the content and process of developmentally appropriate music activities naturally support young children’s language and literacy development. Attendees, regardless of their music background, will gain a deeper understanding of how to use music to holistically support important areas of language and literacy development, including print awareness and motivation, vocabulary development, narrative skills, letter knowledge, phonological awareness, and active listening skills.
Through presenter-led music activities, attendees will come to better understand the connections between language learning and music making by analyzing aspects of language learning inherent in participatory music activity. Dr. Lili M. Levinowitz, Director of Research at Music Together Worldwide and Professor Emerita of Music Education at Rowan University, will also review recent research on this topic and demonstrate teaching practices grounded in the developmental benefits of active learning, play, and relationships during the early childhood years. Special attention will also be paid toward exploring how music activity can support the language-learning needs of dual language learners.
Attendees will be able to use the knowledge they gain in this session to more intentionally use music in their day-to-day work with young children. No music experience needed—just come ready to sing, dance, and have fun! This edWebinar will be of interest to PreK-3 teachers, librarians, and school and district leaders. There will be time for questions at the end of the presentation.
About the Presenter
Lili M. Levinowitz, Ph.D. is Director of Research at Music Together Worldwide and Professor Emerita of Music Education at Rowan University. She is the co-author of Music Together, the first early childhood music education program to start at birth and to focus on the involvement of parents and caregivers in children’s music learning. Music Together classes are now found in over 3,000 communities across 40 countries. Dr. Levinowitz has trained thousands of Music Together teachers and has been actively involved in teaching very young children and graduate students for decades. As an international leader on early childhood music education, her articles appear frequently in journals and online, and she is a sought-after presenter on early childhood music education. She is the Early Childhood Music and Movement Association’s (ECMMA) 2024 Hall of Honor Inductee, recognizing her lifetime of achievement with worldwide influence on music and movement education. She has a B.M. from Westminster Choir College and an M.M. and Ph.D. from Temple University.
About the Moderator
Lisa Chouteau is the Music in Early Learning edWebinar series host. She is the Senior Video Producer and Manager of Video Production at Music Together Worldwide and holds a B.S. in business administration, training, and development from The College of New Jersey. Lisa is also an Emmy Award-winning television producer of public affairs and educational programming for public television and cable networks across the country.
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Music Together® is the leader in early childhood music education. Our curriculum and enrichment resources have decades of research behind them, in both music education and child development. As the first organization to hold music classes for the youngest learners, and the first to include parents, we have been pioneers in early childhood music education since day one. First offered in 1987, our music classes, curricula, and enrichment resources for children birth through kindergarten help little ones develop their innate musicality and much, much more—when Music Together is offered by a school, music becomes a powerful learning tool. From private and public preschools, to pre-kindergarten programs, Head Start, childcare centers, and in-home daycares, our award-winning music and developmentally appropriate activities have been found to raise the overall quality of children’s early learning.
