So all this talk about melodies and music, lately, has led me back to our recently released children’s ABC songs CD, Mr. Wee and Boo’s Wee-phabet Songs With A Fun Twist. My excitement about the CD arose again (not that it’s ever stopped – but I found myself talking 100 mph , as I spoke [...]
The melody is in my head again. Will this ever stop?! I’m sitting here chuckling because sitting directly across from me, the co-author of Mr. Wee and Boo’s Wee-phabet Adventure, is singing our story to “the melody” too. He doesn’t even realize it. And, to make this picture even more of [...]
This morning I began, as I often do, gathering information about reading strategies, best practices, and struggling readers. While reading many articles, I came across one which talked about using music to teach reading, rhymes and build fluency using the Twinkle, Twinkle melody. It was mentioned how this “strategy” could work with any [...]
Phonemic Awareness is a building block for a strong foundation in reading. It is the ability to “recognize that a spoken word consists of a sequence of individual sounds” (Ball and Blachman 1991), and the ability to hear and manipulate sounds in words. Research has shown that phonemic awareness instruction is important because it increases [...]
Comprehension is the ability to understand and find meaning in what is read. It is the development of building meaning from the print on the page. Building comprehension is important because without it, it is impossible to read for pleasure or to gain knowledge. When a person reads without understanding, it cannot be called reading, [...]
Kenneth Beare wrote an article posted at About.com, titled “Music in the ESL Classroom”, which focuses on using music in the ESL EFL classroom. In this article, Beare talks about music being a key element in learning. The article goes on to explain how music can be used in various ways to activate vocabulary, encourage [...]
Playing music can be good for your brain ~ Stanford study finds it helps the understanding of language
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Stanford University research has found for the first time that musical training improves how the brain processes the spoken word, a finding that researchers say could lead to improving the reading ability of children who have dyslexia and [...]
In a 1994 feature in the Los Angeles Times, writer Maia Davis describes a motor-skills class at an elementary school in Ventura, California: With all eyes trained on their teacher, the group of second-graders at Ventura’s Mound School tried to follow her every move as they clapped their hands, slapped their thighs, and kicked their [...]
We found an interesting and inspiring article at www.edu-cyberpg.com by Kathryn Msterson which talks about using music to help children learn. In this article, it speaks of Joan Munro - a reading specialist at Worcester Elementary School in the Methacton School District who uses music to teach reading. This way of teaching reading [...]
Take a look at this “Behind the Scenes” jam session with some of the artists involved in the making of Mr. Wee and Boo’s Wee-phabet Songs With A Fun Twist. The week and a half recording session was quite an experience for Mr. Wee, Boo, and Crew as they sat in and watched these artists bring [...]
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