--- title: Five Best: How Music and Rhythm Helps Children Learn Grammar description: This is how music and rhythm helps children learn grammar, some natural compounds in the food you eat could fight prostate cancer and more. canonical: https://time.com/4808900/how-music-and-rhythm-helps-children-learn-grammar/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-06-07T16:00:07.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:58:47.035Z article:section: Ideas og:title: How Music and Rhythm Helps Children Learn Grammar og:description: And four more of today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4808900/how-music-and-rhythm-helps-children-learn-grammar/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: How Music and Rhythm Helps Children Learn Grammar twitter:description: And four more of today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # How Music and Rhythm Helps Children Learn Grammar by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jun 7, 2017 4:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jun 7, 2017 4:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**This is how music and rhythm helps children learn grammar.**](http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/06/01/530723046/using-music-and-rhythm-to-help-kids-with-grammar-and-language) By Robert Siegel and Andrea Hsu at _NPR_ **2\.** [**Some natural compounds in the food you eat could fight prostate cancer.**](https://news.utexas.edu/2017/06/06/starving-prostate-cancer-with-what-you-eat-for-dinner) By the _University of Texas at Austin_ **3\.** [**Stronger friendships might actually help you live longer.**](http://msutoday.msu.edu/news/2017/are-friends-better-for-us-than-family/) By the _Michigan State University_ **4\.** [**With the help of bots, we can beat online harassment.**](https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/05/how-bots-and-humans-might-work-together-to-stop-harassment/523818/) By Craig Newmark in the _Atlantic_ **5\.** [**Coaching overdose survivors can help them avoid the next one.**](http://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/blogs/stateline/2017/06/02/coaching-overdose-survivors-to-avoid-the-next-one) By Christine Vestal at _Stateline_  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4808900/how-music-and-rhythm-helps-children-learn-grammar/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4808900/how-music-and-rhythm-helps-children-learn-grammar/"},"headline":"How Music and Rhythm Helps Children Learn Grammar","datePublished":"2017-06-07T16:00:07.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:58:47.035Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4808900/how-music-and-rhythm-helps-children-learn-grammar/","keywords":["Five Best Ideas","Innovation","Internet","Education","Drugs","Cancer"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/five-best-ideas/","name":"Five Best Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4808900/how-music-and-rhythm-helps-children-learn-grammar/","name":"How Music and Rhythm Helps Children Learn Grammar"}}]}] ```