Based on the premise that children's natural love for music makes it appropriate to use songs as a motivational vehicle for reading and writing, this paper presents a reading/singing strategy which promotes vocabulary, word recognition, writing, and comprehension skills while providing appreciation of music. The paper briefly discusses the eight steps involved in this strategy: (1) motivate the children so they will eagerly anticipate the lesson; (2) introduce special vocabulary in the song; (3) set a purpose for the children to read/sing the words of the song; (4) read the song's words and sing the song; (5) ask questions pertaining to the song; (6) sing the song again; (7) incorporate skills/strategies into the lesson; and (8) extend/enrich the lesson. The paper then presents four directed singing/reading lesson outlines. one on the song "Peanut Butter," two on the song and book "Love You Forever," and one on "The Orchestra Song." (SR)