Simple words like "the" and "of" are everywhere, but don't follow regular phonics patterns. How should teachers approach them?

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Thanks to a grant from Early Childhood North Central Iowa (ECNCI), the Wesley Public Library was able to put together Literacy Bags for children ages 0-6 with Wesley addresses. Each bag contained two ...

Literacy rates are tumbling as kids' attention spans dwindle. Families are scraping together funds to move schools or get tutors, driving a societal divide.

Learning to read can become exponentially more difficult for older students and adults who have fallen behind, creating grave concerns as the number of individuals struggling with literacy into ...

During a recent circle time, Comeau looked out into an audience of her students, each one equipped with their own cookie-sheet-sized magnetic tray and an alphabet’s worth of plastic letters ...

Targeted support, such as phonics-based reading programs ... Typically, young children enjoy learning to sing or recite the alphabet. However, for those with dyslexia, this task can be daunting.

Alexi Rosenfeld/GETTY "As you get more feedback after a few guesses, users need to draw on some knowledge of phonics to narrow ... the last three letters in the alphabet features.