Theme of this graduate thesis is musical motivation as one of the possible motivational resources in the school subject Croatian language. In this thesis, continuous need for musical expression is shortly shown through the historical aspect. For the purposes of the theoretical framework here are defined musical expressive elements and the term musical motivation. Practical part of the thesis is creating a song, which is composed in melodic and text template so in the future, it can be stimulus for making musical picture book. In this thesis, a song will serve in motivational teaching stage as a stimulus for directing pupils to an observation of language content which will be teached in a teaching stage work on a language-methodical template as a language-methodical template. One of the chapters in the thesis describes picture books, their historical development as well as all essential parts required for a picture book to serve its purpose. The thesis describes the structure of the school subject Croatian language. It compares the Curriculum (2006) and the Curriculum Reform for the school subject Croatian language for elementary schools (2019). It also mentions the principle of text as the basic principle on which rest both the teaching of Croatian language and the language-methodical template in the classroom. The final part of the thesis describes the elements of a musical picture book essential for its practical use in the classroom and talks about its purpose. The thesis ends with describing the Croatian language class during which is encouraged repetition of language contents (nouns and adjectives) by musical motivation in the form of specially designed musical-text template (song).