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Understanding how children learn to read

Notes on rhythm, reading and the brain from the team building Poppins Learning, plus practical, jargon-free help for families and educators.

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Reading science

How Rhythm Shapes the Reading Brain: The Science Behind Poppins Learning

Reading is a timing problem before it is a spelling problem. Here is the neuroscience of rhythm and reading, and how it shaped the way Poppins Learning is built.

Kara Barten

Reading science

The Rhythm–Dyslexia Connection: What Clinicians and School Leaders Should Know

When reading difficulty persists despite strong instruction, the barrier may sit underneath the literacy skills themselves, in timing, sequencing, attention, and working memory.

Hallie Smith

Reading science

Rethinking How Children Learn to Read

Decades of neuroscience are reshaping how children learn to read. A closer look at rhythm, timing, and the reading brain.

Kara Barten

Reading science

The Rhythm You Can Feel: Why Movement Strengthens Reading

Reading lives in the ears and eyes, but also in movement and timing. Here is the science of multisensory, rhythm-based reading practice.

Kara Barten

For parents

Learning So Fun It Feels Like Play: Building Confidence Through Rhythm

When practice feels like a game a child chooses, confidence follows. Why play and rhythm belong at the heart of reading practice.

Kara Barten

News

Dyslexia Awareness Month Is Just the Start

Awareness is where it begins, not where it ends. Here is what real, year-round reading support looks like for children with dyslexia.

Kara Barten

Reading science

When Brain Science Meets the Classroom

What the neuroscience of reading means for the teacher standing in front of 25 kids on a Tuesday morning.

Kara Barten

Poppins Learning arrives in the United States

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Poppins Learning Comes to the United States

A daily, rhythm-based reading practice built with neuroscientists is now available to U.S. families and schools. Here is what we are bringing, and why.

Hallie Smith

For parents

Screens and Dyslexia: Tool or Distraction in the Classroom?

Screens can scatter attention or focus it. The difference is what is on them. A practical look for parents and teachers.

Kara Barten

Reading science

How Rhythm and Music Support Many Kinds of Learners

Rhythm engages timing, attention and motivation, foundations that help many kinds of learners. Here is what the research shows, and where Poppins Learning fits.

Hallie Smith

Reading science

Music, Rhythm and Dyslexia: What the Science Shows

Why rhythm and music keep turning up in reading research, and what that means for a child who finds reading harder than it should be.

Hallie Smith

News

Poppins Learning, Recognized in a Nature Portfolio Journal

Our first randomized trial was published in Scientific Reports, a Nature Portfolio journal. Here is what it found, stated plainly.

Hallie Smith

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