Articles and interviews

2026
“Foster Literacy: Sing Today, Read Forever” - MinnPost online news

“Sing Today, Read Forever: A Proposal for a MN Musical Fitness Movement” Interval, MN Music Educators Association

“Want to Boost Early Literacy Skills? Try Singing” Hechinger Report

Video interview: Dr. Sam Bommarito’s blog

Interview: Crescendo Music Education, Australia

Press Release: New Research-Based Curriculum Uses Music-Making to Prepare Young Brains for Reading

2025
Video interview: The Literacy View

Minnesota Twins Neuro-Nurturing Night

2024
Letter to the Editor, MN Star Tribune

2023
Reading Skills: Here’s a Head Start (scroll down page)
Letter to the Editor, Star Tribune

Singing: A Missing Link to Literacy
Interview by Australia’s Crescendo Music Education

Creating Conditions and Environments for Thriving Kindergarteners (Minutes 31:38-39:00).
Webinar, Grade Level Reading

Literacy
Letter to the Editor, Star Tribune

2022
A Missing Link: How to Enable Brains for Reading with Neuroscientific-Based Activities
Literacy Today, International Literacy Association

Singing Our Way into Fluency
Dr. Sam Bommarito’s blog

Effects of early singing and music making
Power to the Parents KMOJ Radio program, Don Samuels

How to Train Baby’s Brain for Reading
Minnesota Parent Journal article

2021
A New Look at Brain Research (Part 2)
Dr. Sam Bommarito’s blog and video interview

2020
A New Look at Brain Research: The Impact of Music on Reading Fluency/Prosody
Dr. Sam Bommarito’s blog and video interview

2018
Rock ’n’ Read Improves Fluency, Comprehension
Wahpeton Daily News

Lessons with Lyrics: How Songs are Helping STRIDE Academy Students Improve at Reading
Saint Cloud Times

2016
Give them Hope
Sing to Inspire podcasts on MN Public Radio

Rock ‘n’ Read Program and Tune into Reading
Video by Luther Auto

2014
Rock ‘n’ Read: New Program Improves Reading through Singing
Twin Cities Daily Planet

Rock ‘n’ Read Rolls Out in Minneapolis
Video by MN 2020

Rock ‘n’ Read Bus
Video by Fox 9 News

Minnetonka Couple Launch Rock ‘n’ Read Project
Sun Sailor

The Kids on the Bus Learn Song by Song
MPR News

Old Buses Keep on Truckin’ After Leaving Metro Transit
Minneapolis Star Tribune

Old Buses Get New Life
Metro Transit News

Life After Service: Former Transit Buses Take on New Roles
Video by Metro Transit News