Music.
Good
For Reading.
“It is music and dancing that make me at peace with the World"
-Nelson Mandela
Reading Rockets, provides ideas for playing with songs to learn phonological awareness.
Scholastic article, complete with video examples of ways to integrate music for reading fluency, another aspect of phonological awareness.
Music for Phonological Awareness
Phonological Awareness can be enhanced by participation in music. Researchers have found that musically trained children outperformed untrained children in pitch discrimination (high or low sounds), rhythm discrimination (hearing a series of pulses and hearing differences), and phonological skills (Tsang & Conrad, 2011). Rhyme awareness is an important element of phonological skill.
Pam Schiller's book includes rhymes and much more. To purchase the full book, click here.
My Little Bookcase Australian book blog suggestions for books with music and rhythm.