MUSIC PRODUCTION

The organization: EL Education is a leading national nonprofit partnering with educators to transform diverse public schools into hubs of opportunity for all students to achieve excellent equitable outcomes. Their highly rated ELA curriculum is based on the Science of Reading, including structured phonics, which empowers all students to read complex texts and master literacy standards.

The change: A structured and systematic approach to phonics is new for many educators and students. EL Education’s Skills Block is designed to continually build students' ability to map graphemes (letters) to phonemes (sounds). The infusion of music is one of the most critical ways to incorporate the characteristics of primary learners into foundational skill development.

The story: Foreword Motion, along with Multipotent (Rosa Gaia) and Mr*Sparkle (Sean Brennan) worked with EL to produce a suite of music and lyric videos, Skills Songs, which are integrated into daily Skills Block lessons to infuse animal-themed joy into learning to read and write.