As ubiquitous as colored pencils and alphabet posters, lists of “sight words” have long been a fixture in kindergarten and 1st grade classrooms. These inventories identify some of the most commonly ...

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Compound words are sprinkled throughout the English language—endless combinations of little words that partner up to form new, bigger words. How they come together in the written language can vary, ...

If you were to poll an audience of educators–classroom teachers, literacy specialists, reading researchers, and university professors–about whether high frequency words should be taught in early ...

Letter Character (male):Hi everybody and a big, big, big, welcome to the Homophone Sentence Show! Homophones are what we call two or more words that sound the same but have different meanings. We’ve ...

Misty Adoniou works for the University of Canberra. She has received funding to research teacher standards and curriculum implementation. She is on the Board of Directors of TESOL International, a ...

Segue Institute for Learning teacher Cassandra Santiago introduces a lesson on word problems to her first graders one spring afternoon. Credit: Phillip Keith for The Hechinger Report The Hechinger ...

Ok. That is quite impressive, a starfish! What's next I wonder? A foot and a ball. Ah. I think I see a pattern emerging. It's a football. Some snow and a man.