How does singing help teach children early literacy skills?

• Our brains are uniquely wired to respond to music, from before the time we are born.
• Because singing is interactive, it involves even the youngest children in language.
• Children learn language through repetition, and as songs are repeated the rhythm of the words is internalized.
• Singing brings a natural awareness of words, as each syllable or sound in a word gets a different note.
• Nursery rhymes and finger plays present a wide vocabulary, and teach sentence structure, story concepts and comprehension.
• The only things we remember word-for-word from our childhoods, are childhood songs and some rhymes!