Until the mid-twentieth century, American schools taught youngsters to read using phonics, which formalizes the process by breaking down words into letters and their sounds. By learning general rules ...

Help your child practice rhyming words by playing a game. Help your child practice rhyming words by playing a game. All you need is a ball and a little imagination! Help your child practice rhyming ...

To look inside Julie Celestial’s kindergarten classroom in Long Beach is to peer into the future of reading in California. During a recent lesson, 25 kindergartners gazed at the whiteboard, trying to ...

Willem Hollmann is affiliated with the Committee for Linguistics in Education (CLiE) and with the Education Committee of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain (LAGB). Cathie Wallace is ...

On a chilly Tuesday back in January, my 7-year-old son’s classroom in Minneapolis was humming with reading activities. At their desks, first- and second-graders wrote on worksheets, read independently ...

This week, back to school is in full swing. And children up and down the country will be sat (well, this may be optimistic) ready to learn. In early years education, reading is key. And the great ...

So you can read. But how? People learn to talk simply through listening — to our parents talking to us and to each other, to the TV talking to the ether, to strangers on the street. But that’s not how ...

"I will get teared up because I think I can't read," fourth grader Raven said. Learning to read isn't fair. It comes naturally for some students. But for others it's a frustrating, agonizing process ...

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Rhyming up the stairs is a fun way to quiz your child on word root families. Have your child name a rhyming word for every step on their way up the stairs. If they can't think of another word, feel ...