Can you make a new word? Different letters make different sounds. These sounds go together to make up words. Watch Kim, Beth and Patrick have fun making a new word. See if you can make a new word too!

Along the way, the friends practice letters, sounds and reading words, improvise stories, get letters from their globe-trotting friend Otto, practice social skills, and so much more. Reading ...

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

Decades of research have shown that phonics instruction—teaching children how letters represent sounds, and how to blend those sounds together to make words—is the most effective way to get ...