It’s all about the brain!
Brain research has found that sound processing and sound retention is the KEY to language and literacy. Singing and learning basic music skills are primary ways to prepare all young brains for reading.
Graphic from the Auditory Neuroscience Lab at Northwestern University. See their amazing website!
Singing and music skills correlate with reading
Keeping a steady beat, clapping the rhythm of the words of a song, matching pitches, singing in tune
With practice, every child can learn to keep the beat
With practice, young children can learn to sing in tune.
The Rock ‘n’ Read Project offers:
1. MUSICAL FITNESS ASSESSMENT (free)
2. STRATEGIES (free)
Fun strategies based on neuroscientific research that are effective and efficient, and we have evidence that they work to prepare young children’s brains to be ready to read.
3. A SONG A DAY: Brain Prep for Pre-Readers, 50 daily, sequenced lessons for PreK & K that rapidly develop music skills—available in early 2025 from Ventris Learning
4. WORKSHOPS