Rhythm and Rhyme Foundation
The Rhythm and Rhyme Learning System
Rhythm and Rhyme translates developmental science into a practical framework for understanding the first five years and the ordinary experiences that can support them.
4 Capacities. 3 Conditions. 7 Developmental Lenses.
Four interacting capacities, three recurring conditions, and seven overlapping developmental lenses.
Regulation. Attention. Memory. Curiosity. These four capacities appear again and again when children learn. Integration is the increasingly coordinated use of those capacities with language, knowledge, movement, and action.
Relationship, Rhythm, and Repetition are three recurring conditions caregivers can often help create in ordinary life. They matter alongside health, sleep, movement, instruction, culture, temperament, and many other influences.
Responsive human connection can support language, shared attention, stress recovery, meaning, and trust.
Enough predictability can help children form expectations and prepare for what comes next.
Repeated experiences give children opportunities to practice, remember, compare, predict, and refine.
The Learning Map follows seven overlapping developmental lenses from birth to five. The ages overlap. The lenses are guides, not deadlines.
The ages overlap. The lenses are guides, not deadlines.
Guru is the short-form educational voice of Rhythm and Rhyme. In videos of about one to three minutes, he explains individual ideas from the framework in language caregivers can use in everyday life.
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