Music for Phonics & Phonemic Awareness

Rose and Magnotta (2012) found that students taught to read using arts-based methods, like music programs, outperformed their peers in phonemic awareness, phonics, and oral reading fluency. Phonics and Phonemic Awareness are basic pre-reading skills that can be augmented by participation in music.

Links to songs that build Phonemic Awareness from songsforteaching.com.

From the Learning Station, a complete song that provides phonics connections to starting sounds of familiar words.

One of many videos of teachers demonstrating tools for phonemic awareness and other skills for pre-reading.

More songsforteaching.com songs, to help learn individual letter sounds.