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Parents should speak to their babies using sing-song speech, like nursery rhymes, as soon as possible, say researchers. That's because babies learn languages from rhythmic information, not phonetic ...

As ubiquitous as colored pencils and alphabet posters, lists of “sight words” have long been a fixture in kindergarten and 1st grade classrooms. These inventories identify some of the most commonly ...

Want to know if it’s time for phonics in Belinda Williams’s kindergarten classroom? Stand in the hall and listen. “I love phonics because it’s something that’s so easy to make fun,” Williams said. “We ...

EdSource · From housing to basketball, Fresno schools invest in the whole child As California launches a new literacy campaign, some advocates worry that for English learners, a focus on sounding out ...

The project aims to describe the uses of nasality, or passage of air through the nose during speech, in Indigenous Amazonian languages. Nearly all languages have nasal consonants such as “m” or “n”; ...