You know that reading fluency is not performance. It's coherence.
Rhythm-based CPD supports Reading Leads and SENDCOs who know that words-per-minute doesn't tell the full story. When reading sounds fluent on the surface, but comprehension doesn't fully land, progress can look good on paper, but feels fragile in practice. This isn't a motivation problem. It's a coherence problem.
When real-time precision is weak, decoding and comprehension cannot cohere, even when phonics teaching is strong.
Rhythm for Reading helps you:
Identify early signs of fragile anticipation
Track fluency as coherence, not just pace.
Strengthen coherence, fluency and comprehension in just 10 minutes a week.
Real results in classrooms
“Children that were reluctant to pick up a book, reluctant to read, reluctant to do anything around reading see themselves as readers want to read and start enjoying reading!
Lower Key Stage 2 Phase Lead Teacher
Discover the rhythmic foundation that underpins phonemic awareness.
When fluency sounds right, but understanding doesn't follow.
Most fluency frameworks focus on speed, accuracy and expression. Some include punctuation. These are surface indicators.
Fluent reading depends on something deeper: the alignment in real-time of decoding with comprehension. When this alignment is unstable:
Comprehension only happens after reading aloud.
Attention is intermittent or sparse.
Prosody sounds rehearsed or sounds mechanical.
Gains in fluency are difficult to sustain.
If we only measure reading as a performance, we miss the deeper process that drives comprehension and long-term progress.
Discover how to measure coherence, not just speed.
A RHYTHM-BASED APPROACH
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How the Model Builds Coherence
Rhythm for Reading offers a research-grounded approach strengthens fluency by stabilizing timing and anticipation.
In just 10 minutes a week, children begin to:
⦿ Decode with greater ease and less cognitive strain.
⦿ Find a flowingsteady pace.
⦿ Develop natural phrasing and prosody.
⦿ Sustain attention and read for longer.
As coherence improves, fluency becomes self-reinforcing.
Develop shared pace and timing in every session.
The techniques for building attention and fluency are demonstrated through the video lessons. For the first ten weeks, teachers co-teach with the video resources, following a carefully sequenced set of activities that has been researched and refined in schools since 2013. The Rhythm for Reading Roadmap provides a clear year-by-year curriculum that supports consistent progress.
On-going teacher support
This is structured implementation, not one-off CPD.
⦿ 30 weeks of professional development
⦿ weekly 30-minute co-teaching sessions
⦿ coaching check-ins for accountability
⦿ a shared framework for success
The programme is embedded sustainably, with short coaching calls that keep everything on track. No overwhelm. No unnecessary extras. Each call draws on the session planners and reflection tools, helping teachers stay focused on progress and impact.
Evidence-based session plans
Aims and objectives are pre-built into the session planners, allowing teachers to focus on delivery and pupil progress. Teachers track development in:
⦿ Staying in time as a group
⦿ Coordinating rhythm-based actions
⦿ Reading with ease and fluency
This clarity helps identify next steps and adjust the level of challenge as needed.
Notice rapid changes in fluency, prosody & engagement.
Rhythm for Reading Online CPD is grounded in evidence with fluency at its core. The Reading Fluency Tracker is a simple companion tool that supports careful observation of prosody, engagement and emerging fluency over time. It records tricky words, three levels of fluency and attitudes to reading. Children can even add own their comments too. Best of all, it only takes two minutes to complete.
Record measurable progress in prosody, fluency and engagement in minutes.
Teachers See Results Fast: Changes that are difficult to quantify, but easy to recognise.
"All the students who took part in the project are now reading more fluently" Special Children Magazine.
Reading should feel easier and it can. In just minutes a week, this evidence-based intervention helps children reset their focus, regulate their attention, and discover the joy of reading. Teachers begin to notice changes in confidence, flow and ease (often sooner than expected) - and with no extra preparation required.
A Research-Backed Path to Fluent Reading
30 Weeks of CPD
A ready to use structure
aligned with your
reading curriculum
Coaching & Support
Short 15-minute calls
to keep you supported,
confident and on-track.
Innovation that Works
See measurable
progress in reading
with just 10 minutes a week..
Start your journey towards confident fluent reading for all children today.
Our Reluctant Readers Suddenly Wanted To Read -It Felt Like Magic.
“We’ve been working together for about ten years with Marion and the biggest thing that we notice with the children, is their change in confidence, seeing themselves as readers after just six weeks of doing the programme. Things that we’ve been trying to get to happen for two or three years suddenly click into place. Obviously for the academic side, the children’s levels do go up quite significantly, but from the personal point of view - just the love of reading - and the way that they want to read and see themselves as readers is quite special as well.”
Lower Key Stage Two Phase Leader, Inner London
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