Move to the Music!

For Parents & Caregivers: Help your pre-reader become aware of the smaller sounds that make up words.

• Play rhyming games
• Sing songs: each syllable = a note
• Say words with sounds left out (bat - "buh" = at)

Article: "Sound Awareness for Four and Five Year Olds"

Preschool Storytime Books

Dancin' in the Kitchen; Play, Mozart, Play; Punk Farm ; Thump, Thump, Rat-a-Tat-Tat

Rhymes

Music CDs: "All Around the Kitchen" American Folk, Game, and Activity Songs; "Boogie to the Beat" Boogie to the Beat;