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Music.
Good
For Reading.
“It is music and dancing that make me at peace with the World"
-Nelson Mandela
Podcast exploring the rhythm and reading connection, based on the work of Carr et al. (2014).
Scholastic magazine refers to "rhythmicity" and a program called "Interactive Metronome" as a way of building internal rhythm to improve intellectual and developmental skills.
Literacy Connects, a literacy nonprofit, offers a list of rhythm and rhyme books for early readers.
Goodreads.com site collected 295 children's picture book with attention to rhythm and rhyming.
Literacy Connects
Reading Readiness is Rhythm and Meter.
Carr et al., found that preschoolers who were able to synchronize with external acoustic pulses had better pre-reading skills than students who could not match beat patterns (2014). Rhythm awareness is important to reading readiness. Rhyming books that employ even phrases and rhyme pairs can help create rhythm awareness.
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