Welcome to Alphablocks! Twenty six letters who discover that when they hold hands and make a word, it comes magically to life ...

In this video I walk through my favorite YouTube channels for teaching accurate letter sounds and early phonics. I share the ...

The “reading wars” have been around for longer than you might think. In the 1800s, Horace Mann, the “father of public education” who was the first state education secretary in the country (in ...

Here, Primary Teacher April Dowdall has shared some of the resources she uses in her class to give parents some tips on how to teach phonics to younger kids at home. These videos were made for the ...

Four weeks into the current school year, kindergarten teacher Kristen Wilson assembles her army of Code Masters, a notoriously fidgety group of four- and five-year-olds whose attention she can hold ...

A new iPad reading app, Learn with Homer, officially launched this week for kids 3-7 years old. Aligned with common core standards, and developed by well-known education reformer, Stephanie Dua, the ...

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