Simple words like "the" and "of" are everywhere, but don't follow regular phonics patterns. How should teachers approach them?

So why don’t we test for it in the United States? England does. Starting in 2012, the Brits started giving a phonics check to all 6-year-olds. At the end of their first year of school (equivalent to ...

The results are “dramatic,” said Devin Kearns, a professor in early literacy at North Carolina State University, who was not involved with the study. Gains from UFLI are equivalent to 8 months of ...

Presenter 1: When the words get tricky, phonics get all sticky, blending them together doesn't work the same. You can see that all tricky words don't look the way they should be heard. Presenter 2 ...

A syllable is a beat of sound in a word. The beat can sometimes be part ... Why don’t you write a list of your friends’ names and see how many syllables they have? Happy counting!

SAULT ST. MARIE, Mich. (WGN) — Every year in January, Lake Superior State University releases a list of their top 10 banished words and 2025 is no disappointment. A new year brings the promise ...

Following its public debut, Wordle exploded from 90 users on November 1, 2021, to 300,000 on January 2, 2022. The New York ...

Popular YouTube toddler learning show Ms. Rachel is coming to Netflix. It will start with a four-episode season of “curated ...

If today's game is proving to be a struggle, then Newsweek has provided all the information you need to get back on track.

If you’re ready to make 2025 a game changer by retiring stale words that are just so cringe, Lake Superior State University can get behind that 100%. And IYKYK. And ...

which has unveiled the 2025 Banished Words List. The list is an eagerly awaited tradition from the Sault Ste. Marie school, which dates back to 1976. The school says the list "shines a spotlight ...

Hundreds of Wordle puzzles have passed since the game was first unleashed onto the world, and there's now a burgeoning repository of words that now cannot be used for any future Wordle puzzles. If you ...