Tune Up To Literacy »

"Encourage literacy with twenty original songs by musician and educator Al Balkin! Children's and school librarians will welcome Tune Up to Literacy, a handy package of music and activities that musically introduces and reinforces crucial literacy concepts such as the alphabet, vowels, consonants, nouns, verbs, adjectives, sentence construction, punctuation, sequence, rhyming, and much, much more. The book includes 20 original songs to encourage children's development of literacy; rhyme-a-ton rhyming dictionary of commonly used one-syllable words; and activities related to each song - from inventing new verses to telling stories to playing flash-card games" Catchy and strikingly original, the road-tested songs of Tune Up to Literacy are proven tools for acquainting kids with basic literacy concepts.

Foreword Rob Reid Reid, Rob

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Songs

March of the Alphabet 3

Vowel Mambo 7

At the Library 11

Better Than TV 14

Sing a Simple Rhyme 17

Call on a Verb 20

Get the Point 24

Letters to Sounds 28

What's a Consonant? What's a Vowel? 33

A Syllable 37

Sounds to Words 40

Nounsense 44

Pronouns 50

One Complete Thought 55

Singular Or Plural 60

The Adjective Song 63

Fact Or Fantasy? 66

Learn to Read 70

Stretch Your Imagination 74

Books 79

Rhyme-A-Ton: A Rhyming Dictionary of One-Syllable Words and Word Games for Children 83