“Warm up your choppers,” teacher Jamie Dollhopf directed 16 first-grade students standing next to their desks. The students had just completed several rhythmic reading drills. Then came the chopping: ...

NOKOMIS — Ray Manzarek, former keyboardist for The Doors, once wrote “In the beginning was the rhythm, but I had forgotten, and was waiting for the word.” In an educational discipline that traces its ...

Rhythm may not come naturally to some people. A new study suggests those people might not be great talkers either. Scientists studied a group of high school students,and found those who were better at ...

About a dozen toddlers and preschoolers jumped, shook, danced and yelled their hearts out on Thursday during the Rhythm and Reading program at the Buena Vista Branch Library in Burbank. The free event ...

Deborah Sunya Moore, Chautauqua Institution’s vice president and director of marketing, leads first-graders at Love Elementary School in reading to a beat. P-J photo by Gavin Paterniti Most people ...

The film discusses techniques for improving reading speed by focusing on eye movement. It explains that many readers make quick jerks with their eyes, which can hinder speed. By learning to fixate on ...

Scientists are now confirming what poets have known all along. There is an intimate link between language, learning, and music, or, more specifically, rhythm. Nina Kraus and her colleagues at the ...

November 19, 2004 • Our series on the state of music education in American schools concludes today. Richard Deasy, Director of the Arts Education Partnership, summarizes what the research shows about ...