An elementary school teacher has confirmed schools are teaching a different ... knowledge and the understanding of letter forms, names and corresponding sounds represents the crucial foundation ...

But how do you teach a preschool child the alphabet? Parents and teachers need to be creative. While practice is essential to learning, you need to hold your child’s attention. The reward comes when ...

If we're concentrating on the sounds of the words, does that mean we shouldn't teach the alphabet using the ABCs? It's more useful to know the sounds the letters make when you're reading ...

Researchers say that handwriting is linked to academic success. Historians, like Morris, worry what is lost if people can’t ...

They may be written in different directions, or leave out vowel sounds, and the letter forms may change depending on the context (that is, what other letters appear with them). And Chinese, of course, ...

The survey of literacy concepts was administered by a University of Alberta professor and designed to highlight how equipped ...

We dropped the ‘bus’ sound long ago when saying the word ... This short film could be used in teaching about the silent letter b and to reinforce spellings containing silent letters.

The kids think they’re just playing, but Miss Julie and Miss Norma, as they’re known, teach in a subtle, graceful tandem, ...

This is the second of five installments of “How to Get an Academic Job,” a new guide on the tenure-track search from our ...

The school has grown to an enrollment of more than 200 children, where infants, pre-kindergarten and kindergarten students ...

Staff members at Chestnut Grove Elementary feel comfortable this year about literacy comprehension for kindergarten students, and a showcase of their reading skills on Thursday demonstrated that ...