“…The shared book experience is integral to language literacy instruction and a useful activity for music teachers to use when teaching music through children’s literature (Cardany, 2013). Reading picture books aloud to children addresses the iconic and symbolic modes of understanding language as outlined by Jerome Bruner (1966, as cited in Cardany, 2013). “Children experience the iconic modes when they connect images to what they symbolize, and the symbolic modes when associating abstract symbols (i.e., letters, numbers, music notation) to their meaning” (Cardany, 2013, p. 39).…”