New research has shown that extra practice in blending printed letter sounds can help struggling beginner readers (age 4-5) learn to read. The use of synthetic phonics to teach reading to children in ...

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 ...

In this lesson Julia starts by doing a mindful moment body scan exercise and discusses some learning strategies to use in school. Then we do a warmup to practice rhyming words and isolating initial ...

Teachers can help students develop phonemic awareness with these playful activities that engage multiple sensory pathways.

This can make learning to spell the words quite tricky! Watch this short video to see some more examples of silent letter words. Vowel sounds are made by the letters 'a', 'e', 'i', 'o' and 'u'.

Can you make a new word? Different letters make different sounds. These sounds go together to make up words. Watch Kim, Beth and Patrick have fun making a new word. See if you can make a new word too!