This simple card game is a fun, easy way to teach your child letter sounds. Cut the cardstock paper into small squares, about six of each color. Assign each color a letter, and write the letters on ...

In Raymond Elementary School’s pre-kindergarten classroom, boys and girls huddled together on a rug with their teacher to learn a foundational skill for reading and spelling: how to pull apart and put ...

Posing as letter shapes while practicing letter sounds is an active and engaging activity. While learning letter sounds, students can pose their bodies in the shape of letters to connect their shape ...

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 ...

Last year, as I prepped for a trip to Seattle, I wrote about one of my all-time favorite apps, Numberland by Les Trois Elles. It was not an app that I was asked to review, or given for free. I found ...