Completing the Lyric
4/2/2025 | 1m 4sVideo has Closed Captions
Young readers can practice spelling by learning the lyrics to their favorite songs.
Write out the lyrics to your child's favorite song with blanks for them to fill in! This provides engaging spelling practice with words their already used to singing out loud.
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Learning to Read is a local public television program presented by WNPT
Funding for LEARNING TO READ is provided by the Dollar General Literacy Foundation and the Hays Foundation.
Completing the Lyric
4/2/2025 | 1m 4sVideo has Closed Captions
Write out the lyrics to your child's favorite song with blanks for them to fill in! This provides engaging spelling practice with words their already used to singing out loud.
Problems playing video? | Closed Captioning Feedback
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship♪ Take me out to the ball game ♪ - Before learning to read, most kids can sing along to their favorite songs.
Why not use music to excite them about reading?
To help an early reader practice sounding out words, write the words to their favorite song out with blanks for them to fill in.
Try to sing through the song together while pausing at each blank to complete the lyric.
- Crowd?
- Good job.
- Even if the reader doesn't know the word, they can try to sound it out from the melody.
- Never.
- Never get.
- [Instructor] Completing the lyrics to their favorite song is a fun opportunity to increase their vocabulary.
♪ Two, three strikes you're out at the old ball game ♪ - Good job.
- You can sing your way to being a superstar reader.
- [Narrator] Sponsored by the Dollar General Literacy Foundation, helping build literary skills and encouraging parents and children to spend 20 minutes a day reading together.
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Learning to Read is a local public television program presented by WNPT
Funding for LEARNING TO READ is provided by the Dollar General Literacy Foundation and the Hays Foundation.