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A positive relationship exists between sensitivity to rhythm and progress in reading.

Musical notation - is it too difficult?

Dr Marion Long

Published on: 01/07/2024

Music and language are ‘hard-wired’ through evolution into our nervous system. Although reading is not 'hard-wired', we can learn to read music as well as words, and yet conventional methods of teaching reading suit some, but not all children.

Executive FunctionsReading music

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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