Sing into Reading
Text Converter
Use red consonants and blue vowels.
Use the Sing into Reading Text Converter to help your text match the Montessori teaching materials (sandpaper letters, moveable alphabet, etc.), and teach letter differentiation.
I want to use the text converter.Use for shared reading, name tags, recording moveable alphabet work, text in personal folders, labeling, etc.
About Risa and Jude, the creators of the Sing into Reading Text Converter:
A Mother-Son Team
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I'm Risa Beth Cohen, M.S.Ed., Founder of Sing into Reading, where you can teach your child to read with music and love. I teach literacy through music and movement. In 2010, I began teaching at a Montessori school, where letter differentiation was explicitly taught through the Montessori materials. In the moveable alphabet and the sandpaper letters, consonantsĀ are consistently red (or pink) and vowels are blue. I began writing my own text to match the materials, using blue vowels and red consonants in my charts for shared reading, name tags, environmental print, and folders. Changing markers while writing had to be redone often, as I invariably made mistakes. And manually changing the font colors of every character in a Word document was so tedious and time-consuming that it was not feasible.
Fortunately, I have a son studying Computer Science. Jude LinganĀ wrote this program for me when he was sixteen. I asked him to build me a program to convert text to match the Montessori materials - with blue vowels and red consonants - and he did!Ā
We are happy to share this with you forĀ FREE!!!
We hope you enjoy it. Please send your comments to: [email protected]
Keep singing,
Risa
Here are two examples of what songs put through the text converter look like.
