Music-based reading programs

Overview

Influence: Music-based reading programs
Domain: Curricula
Sub-Domain: Reading, writing and the arts
Potential to Accelerate Student Achievement: Likely to have positive impact
Influence Definition: Such programs use music to promote reading among children. They have been found most effective when music activities are linked to specific reading skills, such as pairing alphabet recognition with phonetic patterns. The benefits of music education to reading is greater when specialized music-reading activities are added to the existing music curriculum rather than when these activities replace the music curriculum.

Meta-Analyses
Journal Title	Author	First Author's Country	Article Name	Year Published	Variable	Number of Studies	Number of Students	Number of Effects	Effect Size
Journal of Aesthetic Education	Butzlaff	USA	Can music be used to teach reading?	2000	Music programs on reading	30	5,734,878	30	0.35
Book	Bentley	USA	Everyday artists: Inquiry and creativity in the early childhood classroom	2013	Music interventions	20	1,647	20	0.42
Current Directions in Psychological Science	Sala & Gobet	UK	Does far transfer exist? Negative evidence from chess, music, and working memory training	2017	Music on achievement	38	3,085	118	0.16
International Journal of Music Education	Cooper	USA	Cooper, P.K. (2020). It's all in your head: A meta-analysis on the effects of music training on cognitive measures in schoolchildren.	2020	Music training	21	5,612	105	0.28
Frontiers in Psychology	Gordon, Fehd, & McCandliss	USA	Does music training enhance literacy skills? A meta-analysis.	2015	Music training on literacy skills	13	901	12	0.19
Language, Culture and Curriculum	Murphy Odo	Korea	Examining the influence of English songs on English L2 lexical learning: a quantitative meta-analytic review.	2021	Music on vocabulary	27	1,864	28	0.89
TOTAL/AVERAGE						149	5,747,987	313	0.38