ANNOUNCEMENT
Join us in creating a Musical Fitness/Reading Readiness Movement!
On October 27th, 2026, 106 participants, 68 organizations, and four Minnesota legislators gathered at our Music-Making Matters Summit. Inspired by Dr. Anita Collins, an expert on the music-brain-learning connection and TEDx speaker, we announced that we are proposing a bill to establish the MN Musical Fitness/Reading Readiness Program with the goal of all children musically fit and ready to read by kindergarten.
Minneapolis Times
Singing and music skills are linked with reading.
Singing precedes talking.
Thank you to Vered from BabyinTune
Thank you to Victoria Volz
All children can learn to keep a beat
as well as other basic music skills
Music skills are correlated with reading skills.
Rock ‘n’ Read Project offers:
A Song A Day: Brain Prep for Pre-Readers, a curriculum for 4-, 5-, and 6-year-olds
Free Brain Train activities
Free Musical Fitness Assessment
Presentations and Workshops