Unlock your students’ potential for reading.

WORKSHOPS

For early childhood and K teachers

1. ZAP THE GAP! How to Prepare all Children’s Brains for Reading

2. ARE WE HAVING FUN YET? How Singing and Musical Fun with Young Children Pays Off in Reading Readiness - a workshop in collaboration with the Teddy Bear Band

Watch a 2021 virtual session with Ann Kay and MN Kindergarten Association teachers>>>

THE ROCK ‘N’ READ COURSE

12-hour course

Target Audience: Pre-K through 5th grade classroom teachers and specialists

Have fun learning songs and games that enliven young children, create joyful classroom communities, while enabling children’s brains for language and literacy. Learn neuroscientific-based strategies to use with children from prenatal on to enable their auditory processing, beat synchronization, phonological awareness and auditory memory. These foundational skills are critical to becoming fluent readers. Strategies work with existing curricula.

“Lincoln was #1 in the increase in phonemic awareness from fall to winter…of ALL the Minneapolis schools. Coincidence? I think not! I think singing!!!!!”
— Kindergarten teacher

Teacher Testimonials

  • Once I start singing, my students seem to be in a trance. They drop everything, join in singing, and move to the group area.

  • I have heard them singing these songs all over school.

  • The kids are loving the folktale books and songs. I would never have thought these would be so motivating for 5th graders, but I know they like it when they are asking to sing and dance during recess!!

  • My data is coming in—there is a definite difference between this year and every other year that I have taught. Half of my class is almost a full grade level ahead of where they need to be reading.

  • The most significant increase for kindergartners has been in their rhyming scores—usually my children’s scores increase 5-5.6 points (avg), but the year I followed your program, their scores increased 10 points (avg).

  • My students’ growth has been amazing!

  • This is the best class I’ve ever taken!

A SONG A DAY

BRAIN PREP FOR PRE-READERS

50 short, sequenced one-a-day lessons that use singing and basic music skills to develop auditory processing, auditory memory, phonological awareness, and beat syncronization—all essential for proficient reading.

Publication date: Fall 2024