This text reinforces teachers’ confidence in reading aloud to students. It provides practical insights to strengthen this important pedagogical tool. This book focuses on reading with prosody - to engage and build a love of literature. Prosodic oral reading includes proper phrasing, pause structures, stress, rise and fall patterns, and all-around expressiveness. Fluency adds a musical quality to reading.

This text outlines how maintaining a focus on The Arts is increasingly difficult in the current education climate of ‘back to basics’ focus on literacy and numeracy, and education cutbacks, which have severely impacted Arts education. It is a book with an important message for education policy makers and practitioners.

This text overviews what we now know about neuromusicology- the recent scientific evidence that supports the view learning music and learning to read are complementary and mutually supportive cognitive processes. The book pairs learning to read and music learning with quality literature texts for F-2 classrooms.

The teaching and learning of the alphabetic principle have generated intense debate in education. In this text, the editors provide teachers with the latest research based and evidence based pedagogical practice, at the same time unpacking the main ideas, making them ‘real’ and ‘doable’ for teachers in classrooms.