Our priority is using music to help develop early literacy skills. We utilize the piano, songs, poems and sonnets to teach letter sounds, syllables segmenting, and vocabulary to build fluency and reading comprehension.
Hi!! mane is Carolina Gamez, founder of Reading with Music, I have over 24 years of experience in Education and hold an Educator Certificate for “Exceptional Student Education” granted by the State of Florida Department of Education. I Have dedicated myself to educating ESE students including ASD, ADD, ADHD, DYSLEXIA, GIFTED, and their inclusion into the general education classroom. I am also reading and gifted endorsed, as well as Florida Teacher facilitator, Professional Learning Communities, and Clinical Educator certified.
Reading with Music is a method that I have designed to make it easier for all our students to decode words and to build fluency while reading the lyrics of a song from the piano keyboard. Adding TPR (movement) helps your students enhance comprehension and retain vocabulary or concepts. It also helps with phonics and grammar.
🎹 You can extend it with more grammar, phonics and vocabulary activities.
🎹 You can do it in English, Spanish or any other language.
🎹 It can be utilized with all your students: It is a great strategy for ESE, ELL, DUAL and also Gifted students.
🎹 You can use it during whole group, small groups or centers, and You can also use it for tutoring.
🎹 The students have the lyrics on the keyboard, they read the lyrics while playing the piano and it is easier for them to read longer words because these longer words are usually divided in syllables by the different musical notes.
Our mission is to foster a love of reading, build literacy skills, and support socio-emotional well-being in all types of learners including ESE & GIFTED.
Phonics instruction teaches the relationship between the letters of written language and the sound of spoken language. Children's reading development is dependent on their understanding of the alphabetics principle. Phonics is key lo literacy instruction.
Vocabulary is key to reading comprehension. Readers will not understand the passage without knowing what most of the words mean.
Fluency is the speed and accuracy of decoding words.
Reading comprehension is the ability to understand what you are reading.
Ear training or aural skills is a music theory study in which you can learn to identify pitches, intervals, melody, chords, rhythms, and other basic elements of music, solely by hearing. The application of this skill is analogous to taking dictation in written/spoken language
Building foundational literacy skills through engaging and personalized lessons!
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