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Drumming for Literacy: Reports from school assessments from across the…

- - - - Studies show that music has the ability to reduce cortisol levels making it an effective tool for classroom integration.
- - - - Students that come from low income households are often affected by the trauma that they experience in their homes and neighborhoods
        
        "More than 50% of school aged kids and now coming from Low-Income families, without the optimal cognitive or emotional development to succeed as students." (Suttie, 2016)
        
        Paul Tough: Author of helping children Succeed / Has researched what helps students who experience trauma from low income homes to succeed
        
        Changing the environment and neighborhoods of low income students, by educating parents and caregivers, Surveying and answering the needs of the community, learning how successful students from these environments cope and succeed.
      - Have more parents that are unable to read, and are exposed to less words and vocabulary
        
        Higher Income students have more "Goodnight Moon Time" (face to face interaction with parents. This means that these children will have heard 30 million more words than their low income peers.
- - - - Educator Dr. William Dolce developed a list of the most commonly used words in the English language in the 1930's and 40's. It is believed that once a child knows this list of 220 service words and 95 high frequency sounds It is believed that once a child has mastered reading these words, reading becomes more easier and the child can then focus on learning new words.
    - - phonological awareness: an individuals awareness of the sound structure of words. This is a reliable predictor of later reading ability, and is the focus of much research
      - Phonemic awareness: When listeners are able to hear, identify, and manipulate phonemes, the smallest units of sound that helps to identify units of meaning
        
        Phonics: Teaching the sounds of letters