How can music help develop reading fluency and comprehension?
- More engagement
- More repetition
- More retention
By adding music to any educational text, reading becomes engaging, memorable, interactive, and fun.
Reading Fluency
Fluency is the bridge to comprehension.
- Lyrics2Learn’s multisensory approach integrates the research-based fluency strategies of repeated, choral, and assisted reading into every lesson.
- Lyrics2Learn facilitates the consistent, repeated exposure to a wide variety of texts needed for fluency improvement and increased development of background knowledge.
- By reading repeatedly, kids familiarize themselves with text, spending less cognitive resources on decoding. This allows more effective focus on the meaning of text.
- Reading along to music, rhythm and rhyme, makes repetition fun, engaging, and increases retention.
Reading Comprehension
We can't teach kids to comprehend on a high level until we help them retain on a high level
- As students retain more information from repeated reading, questioning becomes more complex.
- By incorporating music, rhythm and rhyme with repeated reading, students drastically increase retention and background knowledge.
- Lyrics2Learn questioning levels align with the Common Core Depth of Knowledge (D.O.K.) levels.
Lyrics2Learn improves fluency, comprehension, word recognition, background knowledge, and kids authentically enjoy reading.
L2L is a brain-based, online reading program created by Jeremy Spartz, a 15 year classroom teacher, writer and literacy tutor. It was made as a daily reading center his students could do independently to develop fluency and comprehension while he ran reading rotations.
- A reading supplement and intervention providing research-based fluency practice for K-5 students
- Provides teachers, schools and districts fluency practice for students without sacrificing direct instruction time
- Records cold read vs hot read comparison videos each week, motivating students and increasing accountability
- Monthly benchmarking to track fluency progress
- Brain-based, multi-sensory and interactive
- Personalized to the needs of each student
- Provides real-time fluency and comprehension data
- Accessible on any device, in school or remote
- Helps students develop background knowledge that can be applied to every aspect of literacy and learning
- Can be done independently by students or guided by teachers
- Fits into any teaching style and schedule
- Preplanned lessons that can be used all year