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 ...

Decades of research have shown that phonics instruction—teaching children how letters represent sounds, and how to blend those sounds together to make words—is the most effective way to get ...

If a Wordle user guesses a letter that's in the right place, that tile will then turn green. If the letter does appear at ...

People with more knowledge tend to be better readers. That’s not proof that increasing knowledge improves reading. It could be that higher achieving kids like learning about the world and enjoy ...

Play the 'Simple Sounds' mini game on Small Town Superheroes. Use the yellow arrows to navigate to the 'Sally and Percy' section to find the 'Simple Sounds' game. If you can, open the game in a ...

Presenter 1: When the words get tricky, phonics get all sticky ... Teeth and tongue just lead the way, open wide and hear me say, 'm-e', that's 'me'. 'W-e' that's 'we'. 'T-h-e-y' why 'they'.

Here, in our latest Business of the Week feature, owner and founder of Phonics Spell Jenny Priestley ... children are remembering so many letter sounds at home and I love receiving photos 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, ...

The recent report on national reading scores was, as a top education data official put it, a “sobering” reminder that ...

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The game was invented by Wardle during the COVID-19 lockdown, initially just "for me and my partner to enjoy." Despite these ...

School (s-k-oo-l) is overhauling how it teaches young students to read with new back-to-basics lessons on phonetic ...