Students at R. Brown McAllister Elementary School use exercises in phonemic awareness—the ability to recognize and manipulate the sounds in English—during literary instruction on March 19, 2025, in ...

Catholic schools are hooked on phonics. Over the decades — as fads in reading instruction have come and gone — Baltimore-area Catholic schools, like many other parochial schools across the nation, ...

In this lesson Julia starts by doing a mindful moment Rainbow Breathing exercise and discusses some learning strategies to use in school. Then using letter cards she sings to review the letter sounds ...

Ann Mease’s most important tools – her arms, hands and mouth, and the way she moves and touches them – must teach hearing-impaired children how to communicate things most people learn by listening. As ...

During the formative years of reading skills in schools, kids should be introduced to vowel sounds. These are not the easiest lessons, but vowels help them with reading and spelling accuracy. Learning ...

One of the best parts of my job is meeting teachers. Their passion and creativity inspires me everyday as I work for the children of our state. This week I was fortunate enough to announce the 2013 ...

If the new standardized tests slated to make their debut in the 2014-15 school year turn out as their designers promise, classroom instruction will enter a new era. Until now, teachers have argued ...

The Norwegian band Ylvis’s song, “The Fox (What Does The Fox Say?),” a catchy and Euro-weird tune with a video including lots of fog machines and whipping bushy tails, brings up a pretty good question ...