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 ...

I Spy is a classic activity to get children thinking about the different sounds that start words. Try saying 'I spy with my little eye something beginning with…' and then the letter sound rather ...

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

The app immediately starts teaching your kids to associate letters with their sounds and that those letter sounds come ...

A new study published in Acta Psychologica has found that handwriting provides significant advantages over visual learning ...

Schools are working now to overhaul literacy teaching to comply with a new state law, the Read Act. A visit to one Minnesota ...

Phonics is the technique used in schools to teach children to read. Pupils are taught to identify and repeat letter sounds. Those sounds then combine to form words that they read aloud.