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 ...

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 ...

Intensive literary intervention program loses funding despite success that seems to bolster Ontario recent approach to phonics and early intervention.

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In support of North Carolina schools in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, Just Right Reader recently donated 315,000 books ...

Today’s Wordle uses one vowel. Today’s Wordle is a word for something cooked and brittle ... The most important guess is your first, and the trick is to load up on vowels (A, E, I, O, and U). Some ...

The number of different vowels in Quordle today is 3*. * Note that by vowel we mean the five standard vowels (A, E, I, O, U), not Y (which is sometimes counted as a vowel too). • The number of ...

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 ...

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 ...

While we all spend plenty of time choosing between the top TVs, picking the best surround sound system to complete your home theater might have skipped your mind. You’re not to be blamed for ...

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 ...

When we think of writing systems we likely think of an Alphabetic writing system, where each symbol (letter) in the alphabet represents a basic sound unit, such as a consonant or a vowel.