Writing To Music

Writing To Music

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Tell your students that they are going to listen to music (choose an instrumental piece without any words) for 2 or 3 minutes and ask them to write anything they want during listening. Younger students may want to simply write some keywords, more advanced ones could write full sentences. Then tell them to stop and ask them to share their ideas. If the students are too shy or if the topic of your lesson is, for example, adjectives, you may ask them to say only those words aloud and so on. For elementary students I usually find music which resembles the sounds of nature, for others - even pieces of classical music. This helps them to build up confidence to express their feelings, emotions and ideas.