Music gives children many opportunities to practice auditory discrimination. Related to phonological awareness, the ability to sort and categorize sounds strengthens children’s listening acuity or their ability to hear and understand clearly. Children practice auditory discrimination through music. This helps your child listen for and recognize that words are made up of different sounds. Take turns clapping to the rhythms of the words. Musical activity: Read favorite nursery rhymes together. Hearing music requires listening for the individual notes combined with their rhythmic values.Understanding a spoken sentence requires the successful auditory processing of the individual phonemes combined with the intonation communicated by pitch.Music is comprised of a series of discrete musical notes or tones.Spoken language is comprised of a stream of connected phonemes.Research indicates that our brains process music and language in similar ways because they share fundamental connections. Children with phonological and phonemic awareness show greater success at learning to read. In learning how to read, young children need to understand that words are made up of discrete sounds and that these sounds can be used to read and build words. Take a look at four of the many ways music supports early literacy development. In fact, a new independent study showed that children participating in our own early literacy curriculum for just 30 minutes a week experience a 32 percent literacy gain.” “Now, in the past couple of decades, the research is catching up to what we’ve experienced: music impacts literacy development in profound ways. Dougherty, Chairman and CEO of Kindermusik International. “In our more than 35 years of teaching young children through music, we get the privilege of seeing how music actively engages children of all abilities in the learning process,” explains Michael G. Music naturally builds those skills (and more!) in children and makes them hungry for learning and reading!Ĥ ways music builds early literacy skills It also involves the growth of other key skills such as phonological awareness, auditory discrimination, active listening, and print awareness. However, early literacy development extends beyond the lap of a parent. Being held by a parent during story time promotes bonding, helps young children connect the sounds of words with pictures, and models for children how to read a book. Reading with children-even infants-20 minutes a day can be one of the most important activities parents do to support literacy development. How many of us learned the alphabet through song, or to count syllables by clapping our hands, or even about the rhythm of language thanks to nursery rhymes? We hope after reading this you’ll be inspired to check out some of the GREAT books and videos on our new “Music Mountain” island in the Reading Rainbow App! If you haven’t gotten hooked on it already, that is…)Īt Kindermusik, we like to say that music and reading go together like milk and cookies or like peanut butter and jelly. (As we close out “Music In Our Schools” month we’d like to share this very special guest post by our partners at Kindermusik. Check out Kindermusik’s guest post, featured on the Reading Rainbow blog!
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