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Reading Fluency: The Bridge to Comprehension

Reading Fluency: The Bridge to Comprehension

Reading Fluency: The Bridge to ComprehensionDr Marion Long
Published on: 25/08/2025

Discover how fluency, automaticity, and rhythm-based interventions unlock comprehension and transform reluctant readers — in just ten minutes a week.

Reading FluencyReading comprehension
Reading Comprehension, Executive Functions, and Rhythm-Based Learning: A New Frontier in Literacy

Reading Comprehension, Executive Functions, and Rhythm-Based Learning: A New Frontier in Literacy

Reading Comprehension, Executive Functions, and Rhythm-Based Learning: A New Frontier in LiteracyDr Marion Long
Published on: 17/08/2025

Explore how executive functions and rhythm-based learning can transform reading comprehension outcomes in schools. Evidence-based strategies for policymakers and teachers

Executive FunctionsReading comprehension
Let Them Catch You Reading - A Summer Story for Families

Let Them Catch You Reading - A Summer Story for Families

Let Them Catch You Reading - A Summer Story for FamiliesDr Marion Long
Published on: 03/08/2025

Join me if you are parent who wonders if summer reading has to be structured or managed. Library visits, bookshop adventures, or simply curling up with a book while your children play are powerful ways to build a reading culture at home.

Reading comprehension
How ten weeks transformed children's reading confidence (and their futures)

How ten weeks transformed children's reading confidence (and their futures)

How ten weeks transformed children's reading confidence (and their futures)Dr Marion Long
Published on: 25/07/2025

In 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.

Reading comprehension

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.” Year 3 teacher

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