Have your kids come home singing their ABCs to a familiar tune - but one that somehow sounds just a bit off? You're not imagining it: the alphabet song is changing. The original song most of us ...

Phonemes are the building blocks of language. Represented by letters of the alphabet, they are the component sounds of spoken words. Most people automatically hear, for example, that the word ...

This stage introduces the most common letters and the sounds they make. This is different from the letter names many of us learned to read with. The other key skill is segmenting, which is the ...

Bat. Using the short sounds rather than the letters in the alphabet,B-A-T, really helps with their reading.b-a-t. Keep sounding out words this way, to help your child's reading and communication ...