Have you seen any correlation between kids who struggle with singing, remembering lyrics specifically, to lack of literacy skills overall? Not just expressive, but receptive language skills, forming sentences, improper pronoun usage, alphabet recognition, that sort of thing?
Obviously anecdotal, but I have seen many similarities in literacy skills and singing with the kids I have cared for. I've never come across it in literature anywhere, although there's plenty of articles about music promoting literacy skills, so the opposite should be true, right?
I have a 3yo who cannot sing the ABC's, or any of our short, simple, songs throughout our day after a MONTH of FT care. She also can't do things like recognize her name tag (even thought it's also color coded). I also have kids that attend 2 days a week that have missed time that are singing all of them perfectly, repeating them at home, and recognizing letters of their name after the same amount of time in care, but for less than 1/2 the number of days.
Obviously anecdotal, but I have seen many similarities in literacy skills and singing with the kids I have cared for. I've never come across it in literature anywhere, although there's plenty of articles about music promoting literacy skills, so the opposite should be true, right?
I have a 3yo who cannot sing the ABC's, or any of our short, simple, songs throughout our day after a MONTH of FT care. She also can't do things like recognize her name tag (even thought it's also color coded). I also have kids that attend 2 days a week that have missed time that are singing all of them perfectly, repeating them at home, and recognizing letters of their name after the same amount of time in care, but for less than 1/2 the number of days.
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