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.
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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 fits.
Hallie Smith
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
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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