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			MUSICKIT & Mr. E's Virtual Music Classroom

Music Activities for Kids and Resources for Teachers
Why MUSIC LITERACY??? page

	Theory and Advocacy about why it is important for ALL kids to learn to read music and how that might be achieved 1. Article on Music Literacy by Kit Eakle 2. Links: MENC Music Literacy articles DEVELOPING MUSIC LITERACY THROUGH ORIGINAL SHARED BOOK EXPERIENCES by Stuart Manins Organization of American Kodály Educators Developing Music Literacy: An Aural Approach for an Aural Art by John Feierabend 3. MUSICTALEs contribution to music literacy - what is a "MUSICTALE?"
		ORDER our book In My Grandmother's Garden

- DISCOVER the world's first MUSICTALE:

MUSICKIT is proud to present our own 2002 GRADIVA AWARD Nominee
In My Grandmother's Garden by Kit Eakle; Illustrations by Jean Eakle
"The first children's storybook in which music and text play an equal role."
Have a look at a pdf reproduction of the book HERE:

					A story in song, of a Young Girl's discovery of the POWER OF ART. Includes musical notation as an integral part of the story
				ORDER the book and CD by NOWOR... ORDER NOW from AMAZON.COMl (booksellers may order from distributors Baker and Taylor) IF YOU LIKE this book PLEASE tell a friend and ASK YOUR local BOOKSTORE to carry it!!!!
		FIND OUT MORE about the exciting MUSICTALES PROJECT and other upcoming MUSICTALES
			Also NOW available at MUSICKIT.COM: LISTEN TO THE MUSIC: A Classroom Classical Music Listening Program Listen to the Music contains listening activities and descriptions of 42 works by a wide variety of classical and modern composers. Composers include: Bartok, Vivialdi, Mozart, Handel, J. S.Bach, Ravel, Debussy, Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, ClaraSchumann, Ravi Shankar, Duke Ellington, Villa Lobos, Tchaikovsky, Haydn, Benjamin Britten and more... The book includes thematic indeces for classroom themes, special holidays and musical concepts to help teachers plan classroom activities.