Have your kids come home singing their ABCs to a familiar tune - but one that somehow sounds just a bit off? You're not imagining it: the alphabet song is changing. The original song most of us ...

New research has shown that extra practice in blending printed letter sounds can help struggling beginner readers (age 4-5) learn to read.

Most theories of reading development claim that young children are logographic, or prealphabetic, readers, unable to take advantage of the systematic links between spellings and sounds that exist in ...

Children who move while learning sounds of letters significantly improve their ability to recognize individual letter sounds.

Learning the sounds of letters is an important part of learning to read and spell. To explore the factors that make some letter-sound correspondences easier for children to learn than others, we first ...

Playing a game of 'I spy' is a fun way to explore word sounds with your child. You may just be playing for fun, but did you realise how much they're learning about phonics?

Children who move while learning sounds of letters significantly improve their ability to recognize individual letter sounds.

Once children have learnt the 43 different letter sounds and combinations used in the British language, they move on to understanding the meaning of the words they see.

Phonics instruction gives children letter-sound knowledge, a skill that is essential for them to read unfamiliar words by themselves.