Books
CTELDS: Connecticut Early Learning and Development Standards, CT. Office of Early Childhood
Supporting All Children Using the CT ELDS: A Guide to Domain and Strands; CT. Office of Early Childhood
Childcare Exchange, Curriculum: Art, Music, Movement, Drama, A Beginnings Workshop Book
Fiestas: A year of Latin American Songs of Celebration by Jose-Luis Orozco
De Colores and other Latin-American Folk Songs for Children by Jose-Luis Orozco
Nurturing Creativity, Isbell, Rebecka and Yoss Iizawa, Sonia Akiko. NAEYC: Washington 2016 ISBN: 9781938113215 Spotlight on Young
Children and the Creative Arts, edited by Derry Koralek, NAEYC
Music and Movement: A Practical Guide for Teaching Young Children by Ellen Booth Church
Websites
An entire chapter entitled: Music and Inclusion
https://milnepublishing.geneseo.edu/music-and-the-child/chapter/chapter-11/
How to Set Up Your Preschool Music and Movement Learning Center
https://www.kaplanco.com/ii/preschool-music-movement-learning-center
Extension Alliance for Better Childcare
https://childcare.extension.org/fingerplays-and-songs-for-child-care/
Videos
GoNoodle videos can be found at their website or on youtube for videos such as this one which gets children listening to a beat and moving in specific ways to that beat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WnI4UNgSaY
There are several videos to help children do simple yoga activities. Here is just one. Yoga for Kids
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIGRZS-YMWo&list=PLZS3MUjYqjUHCxHJUnzMsxwKyPyNXR3Fm&index=2
Articles
It’s a Snap! 4 Ways to Use Music With Special Needs Students
https://www.edutopia.org/blog/music-with-special-needs-students-michelle-lazar
Beyond Twinkle Twinkle: Using Music with Infants and Toddlers
https://www.zerotothree.org/resources/1514-beyond-twinkle-twinkle-using-music-with-infants-and-toddlers
Carnegie Hall: Why Making Music Matters
https://www.carnegiehall.org/Blog/2016/01/Why-Making-Music-Matters-Music-and-Early-Childhood-Development
The Feierabend Association for Music Education (FAME) was founded in 2012 to celebrate and share the unique teachings of Dr. John Feierabend with a wider audience of music educators.
https://www.feierabendmusic.org/about/
https://www.feierabendmusic.org/resources/
Children’s Books
Deaf Musician by Pete Seeger
The Bremen-town Musicians retold by Ruth Belov Gross
Let’s Get the Rhythm adapted by Anne Miranda
Froggy Plays in the Band by Jonathan London
The One-Man Band by Mildred Pitts Walter
Sweet Music in Harlem by Debbie A. Taylor