Recommended for pre-K-3, Tune Up to Literacy encourages literacy using original songs by composer/lyricist/educator Dr. Al Balkin, former Western Michigan Professor and composer who wrote music for The Hobbit as well as several off-Broadway children’s musicals. Produced by ITV with ETV, the programs musically introduce and reinforce concepts such as punctuation and sentence construction.Understanding the concept of syllable is the open sesame to sounding out almost any written word. Developing the ability allow a child to move into the world of reading. This song defines the concept to pique interest!

Originally released by SOUTH CAROLINA ETV NETWORK, 2010. Streaming video file encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on June 09, 2015.

A Syllable: Tune Up to Literacy (1:09).