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How rhythm shapes early learning: Understanding, language, focus and connection

How rhythm shapes early learning: Understanding, language, focus and connectionBy: Dr Marion Long Published on: 16/05/2025

A reflection on early development that explores how rhythm forms the foundation for learning — not just in music or movement, but in speech, attention and human connection. From birth, infants build social engagement through rhythmic interaction.

Phonemic Awareness
How rhythm shapes early learning: Understanding, language, focus and connection

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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