The book ‘Sound Before Symbol’ is now contracted to SAGE Publications and is due to be published February 2013!
You can place pre-orders within the ‘shop’ section or contact us via the ‘contact’ page for more information.
Author: dan tipple
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Angela Harrison, Education Correspondent for the BBC News report
‘New ‘phonics’ tests are being introduced to year one primary children next summer (2012). Trials have been completed this year. The tests aim to identify children who may have reading difficulties in order that they may get extra reading help.’
Phonics is the method of teaching children to read by correlating sounds with letters or groups of letters (strings). The activities in ‘Sounds and Symbols’ promote the skills necessary for the successful learning of letter and string sounds.
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‘Sound Before Symbol’ gets the thumbs up!
The proposal for Sound Before Symbol was passed at this morning’s Editorial Board meeting at Sage Publishing. It has had the provisional ‘thumbs up’ so we can look forward to reading it, hopefully in the not too distant future!
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Jesse Norman MP writes in the Sunday Times
Jesse Norman writes in the Sunday Times ‘Sing Up and Break the Silence’. Some of the huge benefits of music to all parts of life and to all people are discussed in this article along with the necessity of increasing its provision in education.
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A myriad of skills may be developed through attendance at a Sounds and Symbols™ session – these include: cognitive, social, emotional, speech, language, literacy, gross motor, fine motor, problem-solving, listening, phonological awareness and in music making – keeping time, sharing, turn-taking, producing sounds, participation and an appreciation of rhythm, pitch, tempo, dynamics, duration and structure.
Music and literacy are inextricably connected. They share many commonalities detailed extensively in my book ‘Sound Before Symbol’.
The musical activities in Sounds and Symbols™ are specially designed to focus upon the skills required for literacy.
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Book update
The programme ‘Sounds and Symbols™’ is based upon the findings of the book ‘Sound Before Symbol’ The book is currently with Sage Publishing.