New research has shown that extra practice in blending printed letter sounds can help struggling beginner readers (age 4-5) learn to read. The use of synthetic phonics to teach reading to children in ...

Every parent of multiple children will tell you that each child does things at their own pace and in their own way. For instance, one child might love baseball and excel at throwing one while another ...

Henny Wenkart, wife of an electronics engineer in Cambridge, Mass., was sure that their four-year-old son Jonny was ready to read because he knew all the letters and relished their sounds. So she ...

ROCHESTER — First-grade teacher Jillian Albee settled into a chair in front of her students at Elton Hills Elementary one day this fall, and readied a stack of flashcards in her lap. Letters from the ...

I can’t fully recall how I learned to read; it just seemed to click. I vaguely remember my mom using flash cards to teach me how to sound out letters, and that’s about it. I was one of the lucky ones ...

I am sitting with a group of second graders at a rainbow table. I’m a reading interventionist and these students have been selected to work with me because of their reading difficulties. I pass out a ...