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Achkasova, Natalya – Online Submission, 2013
This article invites teachers to consider how to strengthen links between English, music, arts, and acting, maximizing the potential for children to become successful language learners at a young age. It will show how children's opera can act as a catalyst for learning and using the language. The findings demonstrate that teaching English with a…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, English Instruction, Communicative Competence (Languages), Young Children

Miller, Samuel D. – Music Educators Journal, 1984
Suggestions are made for introducing opera to children when they are in kindergarten and in the lower elementary grades. Opera is a form of artistic excitement involving many elements especially well-loved by children and natural to them, including music, costumes, acting, dancing, scenery, and imagination. (RM)
Descriptors: Educational Needs, Music Activities, Music Education, Opera

Parks, Ruth – English Journal, 1987
Describes a two-week English project in which ninth graders read "La Boheme" in translation, studied it as a drama, listened to arias, and finally watched a videotaped performance of the opera. (JG)
Descriptors: Assignments, Audiovisual Aids, Class Activities, English Instruction
Splaine, John; Splaine, Pam – 1992
Incorporating skills and procedures which students can use in many areas of the curriculum, this book, and accompanying "teacher's guide," provides interactive activities that are fun and that help students in grades 4 through 12 become critical viewers of television. The book provides homework activities that turn the normally wasted…
Descriptors: Audience Response, Cartoons, Class Activities, Critical Viewing

Bracken, Khlare R. – Social Studies Journal, 1997
Provides a rationale for using classical music as the basis of interdisciplinary units in elementary social studies. Recommends beginning with a series of humorous pieces to familiarize students with classical music. Includes many examples for utilizing pieces related to geography and history. (MJP)
Descriptors: Applied Music, Creative Teaching, Curriculum Enrichment, Elementary Education