“…A purpose of this column is to explore, create, and describe ways in which children’s literature—as well as other aspects of language literacy—can be employed in general music classrooms. In addition, readers will discover ready-to-use music activities as well as expand their knowledge of language literacy, such as vocabulary acquisition and polysemous words (Cardany, 2012, 2015), phonological awareness (Cardany, 2011a), reading comprehension (Cardany, 2011b), and transactional reading theory (Cardany, 2014). In this article, the author describes and employs a whole language technique (i.e., the shared book experience) in a music lesson using children’s literature, as well as singing and reading icons for music concepts of pitch and rhythm.…”