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 ...

Staff Writer As Susie Mahowald stands in front of her first-grade class at St. John the Baptist Catholic School, she teaches them to spell and read without opening her mouth, ...

But, I did pick up on something intriguing—words often sound like their meanings. A key concept of Rastafarian reasoning is that “word sound has power” and there is truth to it. Take ...

I Spy is brilliant for letting your child put their phonics learning into practice - that is, their understanding of the sounds that make up different words. When they play, they're reinforcing ...

As children approach pre-school age, they'll often begin to build their understanding of the different sounds that make up words and be able to spot similarities and differences between different ...

Read it, dot it worksheets have been a favorite in our home for building early reading skills in a fun and hands-on way. These engaging activities encourage kids to match simple words with pictures ...

At the turn of the millennium, R&B and soul was taking root with a new, younger audience, partly thanks to D'Angelo, whose 1995 debut, Brown Sugar, was a big driver of the neo-soul movement ...

For nearly all of my 30 years traveling around the sun, I’ve suffered from debilitating allergies of some sort. As a young child, I was often laid up by hay fever, as well as by allergies to ...

Checking the word count on Google Docs helps track document length. Follow this quick guide to easily find and use the word count feature. Word count serves as one way to measure the length of a ...

Starting off with words that include commonly used vowels, for example, e and a, consonants such as r and t, and sound sequences might be helpful. Choosing a word that starts with q, z ...