Remind the child that when adding the silent e to the end of the word, the first vowel says its own name. The letter e is tired after all that work, so it is quiet and falls asleep. Practice a few ...

Phonics includes learning different letter sounds, short and long vowel rules, and all things to better help breakdown unknown words. This is slated to start in the fall of 2025, when every school ...

Brace yourselves, there are more vowels than the [A, E, I, O, U] of “Wheel of Fortune.” Linguists say there are primary vowels and diphthongs (sounds formed by combination of two vowel sounds ...

Grammarians love to grumble about texting and social media, convinced that every “u” instead of “you,” every “tho” or “luv,” ...

As a pediatric speech-language pathologist and a mother of a child in San Diego public schools, I’ve seen California’s early literacy crisis firsthand. Many of the kids I serve have phonological ...

Reading my old copy of Dictionary of American Slang (DAS), compiled by Harold Wentworth and Stuart Flexner in 1960, brought to mind a line from T.S. Eliot’s “Portrait of a Lady”: “And ...

At the time, the real issue with spelling was how to denote a long vowel versus a short vowel. So the word "fir," F-I-R, versus the word "fire." At that time, they didn't have the convenience of ...

Children have a short attention span, and a reading lesson that goes on for too long will lessen the amount learned ... then you will know that it is time to teach them phonics. The process for ...