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If your child has just started school, phonics expert Ann Sullivan shares her top tips for helping them at home ...
Wordle, the viral online guess-the-word game, has become a social media phenomenon and a source of fierce competition among its devotees. But in some classrooms, it’s also a teaching tool. The game, ...
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Bishop Woods second grader Maite paused and took a deep breath as she looked at the word: “Dent.” She knew what it meant. The spelling was the hard part. So she decided to sound it out — at the ...
I'm sharing one of my favorite online resources for teaching phonics and spelling—Mr. Spelling on YouTube! His rap songs break down tricky spelling patterns and rules in a way that kids love and ...
New research suggests that relying on phonics, a method of learning where an individual sounds out words, helps students to learn reading faster when compared with the whole-language technique, which ...
There’s a great saying by author Anna Quindlen: “Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey.” And she’s spot on. Books, and the ability to read them ...