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A positive relationship exists between sensitivity to rhythm and progress in reading.
How ten weeks transformed children's reading confidence (and their futures)
By: Dr Marion Long Published on: 25/07/2025In just ten weeks, a group of KS2 children made up to two and a half years of progress in reading comprehension — but the biggest change wasn’t in the test scores.
Neurodiversity: Rapid progress from focus to comprehension
By: Dr Marion Long Published on: 25/04/2025Researchers have found that behaviours consistent with neurodiversity are less stereotypical following a certain form of musical intervention. Children and young people become more confident and improve in their social skills and communication.
Working memory and rapid progress: from phonics to comprehension
By: Dr Marion Long Published on: 19/04/2025Over the past 12 years, I’ve spent time in schools listening closely to pupils, collecting data, and noticing the quiet patterns that shape progress. This post reveals the trends that emerged over this time.
Multi-tasking: Rapid progress from phonics to comprehension
By: Dr Marion Long Published on: 11/04/2025Discover the quiet gap between decoding and understanding—and why rhythm is the key to bridging it. Although fluent reading is essential to unlocking reading comprehension, multi-tasking develops sensitivity to rhythm across multiple brain systems.
How rhythm defines
phonemic awareness
“It’s only an hour that they have with you over the time that you come in over the six weeks and for it to be able to make, for a lot of them, up to a year’s difference in their reading ability is quite amazing really.”
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