This one is notable because the second syllable of this word, the one that sounds like own, is how the numeral "one" used to ...

I was grateful to John Lane, of East Falmouth, for coining tele-font-ics and, in particular, for explaining what led him to ...

In Pronoun Trouble, the Columbia professor and New York Times columnist tells the truth about those pesky little words.

Do you have one to add? If you speak another language, what is a beautiful, evocative, specific, or useful word that exists ...

We've gathered some of the best apps, games, and websites for building your kids' reading skills. Together, these resources cover reading skills from letter recognition, phonics, and sight words to ...

Stereophonics are playing as part of the Summer Sessions series of concerts at Glasgow’s Bellahouston Park on Saturday, June ...

Our focus is on skills, not tools. What do we want students to learn? That comes first,” says Bill Bass, innovation ...

Glorifying consumption | Life of privation | Safeguard bees. Mercury News reader letters to the editor for June 20, 2025.

Nearly 6 in 10 third graders scored below grade level on California’s reading tests during most of the last decade.

A bill asking educators to adopt the "science of reading" emphasizes phonics. Will enough California teachers respond?

Phonics, a method that teaches the connection between letters and sounds, is at the center of a new push by California lawmakers to close the state’s early childhood literacy gap. A bill backed by ...

California’s reading wars may finally be over. After decades of debate over how to teach reading, a new bill aims to use phonics to solve the state’s literacy crisis.