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Everyone
knows just how important it is for children to develop sound literacy skills
from an early age, and it is also accepted that music, and in particular
singing, can have a wide range of benefits for children. The most important of
these benefits from the point of view of teaching literacy is that singing has
been shown to accelerate learning and improve the memory.
The
new THRASS SING-A-LONG
Family Reading Project
therefore uses 44 songs that parents and others can sing with children to
explain the 44 sounds and 120 main spelling choices of English. The songs have
really memorable tunes in different musical styles and wonderful imaginative
titles such as “The moon fell out of the sky”, A great big gorilla” and
“You don’t get pandas in Africa”.
The
main THRASS SING-A-LONG Family Reading Resources are an interactive book and an
audio CD, complemented by a 96-page hard-back book and a colouring book. A sheet music book and a MOVE-A-LONG with SING-A-LONG DVD
are also available.
The
THRASS SING-A-LONG Family Reading Resources will enable children, and also older
learners, to develop their literacy skills while at the same time having lots of
fun. They will also enable children to enjoy a whole range of other benefits as
a result of making singing part of their daily lives.
To
listen to/watch a sample track from the THRASS SING-A-LONG Interactive Book, click
here.
To listen
to a sample track from the THRASS SING-A-LONG CD, click
here.
To read
all the Press Releases and Media Coverage of the THRASS SING-A-LONG Family
Reading Project, click here.
For full details of the
THRASS SING-A-LONG Family Reading Resources and to BUY, click
here.
DVD and Sheet Music Book
The DVD includes the World Premiere school concert performances for all 45 songs, with the words
displayed on screen. To
watch and/or download the performance
for the theme song, song 45, click here - Theme
Song - Song 45.
The Sheet Music has been written with easy piano
accompaniment to make it accessible to both children and adults.
Download the Theme Song - Song 45 as a Sibelius
music file and then install the Scorch software. It can then play
the notes for you! Also, you can download a pdf of the sheet music for
Song 45.
TEACHING THRASS
To find out more about the
THRASS phonics programme more widely and gain an insight on how best to
understand and make full use of the THRASS Family SING-A-LONG Resources and
other THRASS resources, either click on SITEMAP
for a list of all our webcards, click on ‘Next’
for a guided tour of this picture-based
website by "The THRASS Man", or click on Key
Facts to read about the main features of THRASS, the reasons for using it
and what teachers, assistants and parents say about it.
All THRASS resources are
easy to buy in our on-line shop which you can find in the RESOURCES
section of the website. There you can
check out the full list of resources, including the THRASS Phoneme
Machine and the Calendar
Charts).
SING-A-LONG RESOURCES:
SING-A-LONG BOOK
SING-A-LONG AUDIO CD
SING-A-LONG INTERACTIVE BOOK
SING-A-LONG COLOURING BOOK
MOVE-A-LONG
WITH SING-A-LONG DVD
SING-A-LONG SHEET
MUSIC BOOK
and a
free download
My THRASS
SING-A-LONG Record Book
OTHER NEW RESOURCES:
SOUND IT OUT!
Released on 26 May 2010
"If
in doubt, SOUND IT OUT!"
If a child is unable to read a word,
schools advise parents to help their child ‘sound it out’, by using letter
sounds and not the names of letters. In this way, children (from as young as the
age of five) are encouraged to sound out the words that they cannot read by
using simple phonics (by giving each letter one sound)...
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