{"id":1018,"date":"2020-06-23T00:05:54","date_gmt":"2020-06-23T00:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sb\/youthmusicinitiative\/?page_id=1018"},"modified":"2020-06-24T15:41:07","modified_gmt":"2020-06-24T15:41:07","slug":"literacy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sb\/youthmusicinitiative\/music-in-early-years\/literacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Developing Literacy through Music"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nPhonological Awareness<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n

Music is a great way to deliver many elements of the Emerging Literacy curriculum especially the phonological awareness.\u00a0<\/span>Children should have daily opportunities to sing songs and action rhymes developing a wide repertoire of songs and rhymes.
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Auditory Discrimination<\/em> is the ability to differentiate sounds and is a vital pre-reading and pre-writing skills. Hearing songs sung again and again can help build this skill.<\/span><\/p>\n

Rhyming and Alliteration.\u00a0<\/em>Rhyming is another form of auditory discrimination.\u00a0Children need to be able to hear the rhyme and be able to generate their own. Songs are full of rhymes and alliteration.<\/span><\/p>\n

Auditory Memory<\/em>\u00a0(hearing information, processing it, retaining it, and then later recalling it) This is a crucial skill that can be improved upon with activities. Singing is one of them<\/span><\/p>\n

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