Alphabets make up the core of preschool learning. The alphabet is the first thing a child needs to learn before anything else. Children need to learn each letter and the corresponding sound to ...

EdSource · From housing to basketball, Fresno schools invest in the whole child As California launches a new literacy campaign, some advocates worry that for English learners, a focus on sounding out ...

Today, children are taught to read using phonics, which is all about the sounds that make up words. Children start by learning the letters and the sounds they make, and how to put them together to ...

Phonics tests for six year olds have started in schools in England. But what do parents need to know about this system for learning to read? Phonics has been promoted by the government as the best way ...

Scatter bean bags with letters around the yard. Scatter bean bags with letters around the yard. Then say a sound and ask your child to find the bag with the letter that makes that sound. This is a ...

Pamela Snow receives funding from the Australian Research Council (Discovery and Linkage Programs), Criminology Research Council, Jack Brockhoff Foundation, and Pam Gunn Memorial Trust. Tanya Serry is ...

Four weeks into the current school year, kindergarten teacher Kristen Wilson assembles her army of Code Masters, a notoriously fidgety group of four- and five-year-olds whose attention she can hold ...

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 ...