What mischief will Bluey and Bingo get up to with the magic xylophone?

Today, children are taught to read using phonics, which is all about the sounds that make up words. Children start by learning the letters and the sounds they make, and how to put them together to ...

Montessori Letter Sounds: Another Winning App From Les Trois Elles Last year, as I prepped for a trip to Seattle, I wrote about one of my all-time favorite apps, Numberland, by Les Trois Elles.

The reading wars have raged for decades. But there is a conclusive answer: The phonics method works.

Synthetic phonics is a way of teaching children to read based on ‘decoding’ words using the sounds made by letters and groups of letters.