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A positive relationship exists between sensitivity to rhythm and progress in reading.
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.
Scanning ahead: Rapid progress from phonics to reading comprehension
By: Dr Marion Long Published on: 04/04/2025Fluent reading isn’t just about decoding words. It’s about moving through text with ease, flow and understanding. It involves what we call scanning ahead not only in terms of eye movement control but also by anticipating words and phrases.
Reciting poetry: The role of rhythm in grammatical structure
By: Dr Marion Long Published on: 01/03/2025Have you ever wondered about the relationship between poetry and music? People often ask me why reciting poetry seems to help children, particularly those finding aspects of reading fluency and comprehension somewhat challenging.
What can we do to support the development of reading fluency?
By: Dr Marion Long Published on: 01/12/2024Although the development of reading fluency is less well understood than are other aspects of reading, it can be assessed by tracking a child's engagement with the text, their expression, prosody, flow and understanding, week by week.
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How rhythm defines phonemic awareness
“It’s only an hour that they have with your 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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