I’m sharing my absolute favorite resources for teaching letters and sounds to preschool and kindergarten kids. These are the ...

Phonics is a method that teaches children how to read by linking letters together based on sound groups. Together, these alphabetical combinations can aid children to easily begin pairing them by ...

America’s kids aren’t learning how to read, a skill which forms the building blocks of nearly every other subject or discipline and a lifelong capacity for acquiring knowledge. That’s why it’s ...

A lovely aphorism holds that education isn’t the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire. But too often, neither are pails filled nor fires lit. One of the most bearish statistics for the future ...

Lawrence Public Library, pictured Aug. 20, 2015. Phonics is the key to unlocking literacy skills among Lawrence K-12 students, according to educator Barbara Mullen, and the use of other methods to ...