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.It's important to pay attention to the signs around us everywhere that sometimes are there to keep us safe and safely moving in our fast-paced, often crowded world! In this episode, the song encourages students to be able to read and pay attention to the signs all around them.

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

Signs: Tune Up to Literacy (1:16).