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Phonological awareness is the ability to play with the sound of language without thinking about the meaning. It typically develops without direct instruction and the majority of children learn these skills through osmosis simply by being read to, by talking with adults or by participating in play. Research shows that roughly one third of students do not learn these skills through participation in childhood experiences.
Some things that might impact that are ear infections. Autism spectrum disorder and developmental disabilities will also impact some kids' ability to work on these pre-literacy skills.
Kathy Schumacher, MT-BC, WMTR of Tuneful Teaching joins us on the 14th episode of the Music For Kiddos Podcast to talk about this phonological awareness and how we can support children to work on & develop communication & literacy skills through music.
You can also check out this thorough video by Kathy in which she talks more about the Phonological Awareness Developmental Continuum and music and movement based interventions & digital resources that you can use to improve both literacy and communication skills.
FREE RESOURCE
Kathy also shared an awesome visual resource called “Dot to Dot Drumming” in PDF and Google Slides form, that can be used to address communication, literacy and gross motor skills through drumming.
🎵Download the PDF + Google Slides of the Dot to Dot Drumming Resource here ↓
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