This book offers both philosophical and practical ways to teach music through language and enhance literacy programs with music. It includes" . 48 tried-and-true activities for preschool age through upper elementary. . Lesson plans usable by both music and classroom teachers. . A sequential development from phonemes to poems, from speech pieces to pentatonic orchestrations. . Arrangements for Orff Instrument ensemble and details of Orff orchestration. . Models of how to imaginatively animate rhymes.