Developmentally appropriate activities focused on foundational reading skills can help young children have fun while they learn.

In fact, some of the most common English words are nonphonetic. For example, the words to and do do not rhyme with so or go.

Since 2020, sisters Elspeth and Rowena Rae have been writing decodable series of books to assist children of all abilities in ...

Flat test scores prompt educators from 4 St. Louis schools to visit Washington, D.C., to see how it's done in $1 million literacy challenge.

The third set of stories and poems covers 'blends'. These are letters which join together to make another sound, for example, br ot, gl as, ia sg. Lists of the words in each set are given below. In ...

Increasingly scrutinised reading intervention program Reading Recovery has been dealt another blow, with new research finding it may be ineffective for struggling or dyslexic readers - and some data ...

Sight words contribute to fluency and phonics, but vocabulary is about understanding the actual context of a word. For example, students might decode the word “empire,” but do they understand its ...

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