What Would That Lesson Look Like?:
Teaching to Musical/Rhythmic Intelligence

Reading

Illustrate a story or poem with music

Write a rap summarizing a story

Choose music to represent each character in a story

Align the movement of the plot with the movement of the music, shaping the music so that its climax is the story's climax, etc.

Read poetry out loud and clap out the rhythm

Take a popular tune and give it new words that summarize a story

Writing/Grammar

Create songs or raps to teach parts of speech, certain speech rules, etc.

Sing a spelling bee

Read your own writing out loud to a partner and assign each punctuation mark a sound; be sure to read the punctuation marks out loud, too. Have your partner check your use of punctuation.

Use musical terms to describe how you have put the ideas in your essay together.

Read your essay out loud and notice the places where you have rhythm and the places where you do not; rewrite the places lacking rhythm.

Mathematics

Drill and learn math facts to drum beats

Make up sounds for different math operations and then read and solve problems aloud reading the operations signs as sounds

Write songs to explain mathematics operations

Learn to read music rhythm to clarify division