Author Description

Reading to a Beat benefits students who read at 3.0, and above, grade level and struggling readers in middle or high school. Current brain research suggests that as many as eighty percent of struggling readers have problems with auditory processing. The students' auditory neurons are firing too slowly. Reading a Beat employs specific learning strategies which improve students' reading and spelling skills. The learning strategies focus on Metronome reading with phrase-cued reading. Reading stories to a metronome beat helps build smooth reading skills and fluency. Reading speed will also improve.