Proven methods for teaching the readers who struggle most have been known for decades. Why do we often fail to use them?

Consistently poor spelling can indicate that a child has dyslexia or another related learning challenge. If that's masked by ...

Learning to read, unlike speaking, walking, or understanding the world around us, is not something humans do naturally.

"¡Cebra!" ("Zebra!") Manuel shouted, eyes sparkling as he pointed to the smartboard. "La ‘c' está pretendiendo ser una ‘s'!" ("The ‘c' is pretending to be an ‘s'!") A few days earlier, our ...

The students in Emily Hoard’s first-grade class trace letters in their sand trays, then break down the sounds the letters make in simple words. This is what the science of reading looks like as Hoard ...

Not all words are created equal – and those that sound more surprising are more likely to grab our attention and stick in our ...

Cowbirds are special among songbirds for the "watery" timbre of their singing, which resembles the sound of falling droplets ...

A key barrier to making phonetic studies scalable and replicable is the need to rely on subjective, manual annotation. To help meet this challenge, a machine learning algorithm is developed for ...

JumpStart Phonics Learning System, also simply known as JumpStart Phonics, is a game released by Knowledge Adventure in 1999. It teaches beginning reading skills for ages 3-6. In this game, the player ...