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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. Later
in the year a sheet music book and a MOVE-A-LONG with SING-A-LONG DVD will also
be 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 associated DVD and Sheet Music Book will be published in June 2008.
The DVD includes the World Premiere school concert performances of all the songs, with the words
displayed on screen. The Sheet Music has been written with easy piano
accompaniment to make it accessible to both children and adults.
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).
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