Time is a slippery little sucker. No more so than when you experience it through the growth and development of a child. One ...

This video breaks down the surprising flaws behind the way we teach children the alphabet, especially the classic “A is for ...

“Our students are referring to things as ‘phonemes’ and ‘graphemes’, they can identify whether there’s ‘digraphs’, ‘trigraphs’. “And so [this creates] that integrity for the program, but also provides ...

The Polish alphabet has 32 letters, nine of which are unique. Considering that some of the letters form digraphs and even one trigraph, this adds up to a total of 17 signs, which you’ll unfortunately ...

Abstract: Research in keystroke dynamics has largely focused on the typing patterns found in fixed text (e.g. userid and passwords). In this regard, digraphs and trigraphs have proven to be ...

A new study has found evidence of big gains in students’ reading ability from using one specific phonics program—and suggests that consistent implementation is key to getting the strongest results.

Primary school children in Victoria will increasingly be taught to read via a teaching method called 'phonics'. It's a way of explicitly teaching sounds, which enables children to decipher unfamiliar ...

Until a couple of years ago, Lucy Calkins was, to many American teachers and parents, a minor deity. Thousands of U.S. schools used her curriculum, called Units of Study, to teach children to read and ...

What is Phase 5 phonics? Phase 5 phonics involves introducing children to the many alternative ways of representing spoken sounds using different spellings. They also learn that you can pronounce some ...

A diphthong consists of a set of any number of vowels that together sound like two vowels, in contrast to a monophthong, which sounds like one vowel, and a triphthong, which sounds like three. The ...