A new way of teaching reading, already in wide use in the U.S., is challenging the “look-say” method that took over the field beginning 40 years ago. Look-say, best known through the “Dick and Jane” ...

Mrs. Knarr will teach your early learners how to skip count by 5s. Let’s skip into numbers on this episode of #TeachingInRoom9! Mrs. Knarr will teach your early learners how to skip count by 5s before ...

Julia uses an anchor chart, songs and whole brain teaching to review the 7 syllable types. Julia reviews previously learned skills. Then she uses an anchor chart, songs, and whole brain teaching to ...

The “science of reading” is a body of knowledge referring to how students learn to sound out words, learn vocabulary, and read increasingly sophisticated texts. More teachers are being encouraged to ...

Primary school children in Victoria will increasingly be taught to read via a teaching method called 'phonics'. It's a way of explicitly teaching sounds, which enables children to decipher unfamiliar ...

In an era where humans have managed to create an artificial intelligence tool sophisticated enough to churn out an essay on Shakespeare, it seems unlikely that there would still be ambiguity about how ...

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 ...

It is extremely difficult to convince teachers, teacher-trainers, textbook writers, parents among others that children who squeeze a system of sounds from thin air also have the capacity to learn the ...

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 ...

At the onset of the COVID pandemic in the Philippines, educational institutions were directed to cease in-person classes to help stop the spread of the virus. As of this writing, basic education ...