Can you make a new word? Different letters make different sounds. These sounds go together to make up words. Watch Kim, Beth and Patrick have fun making a new word. See if you can make a new word too!

Staff Writer As Susie Mahowald stands in front of her first-grade class at St. John the Baptist Catholic School, she teaches them to spell and read without opening her mouth, ...

Here & Now revisits one of the show’s favorite topics: mispronounced words. It turns out we all do it — sometimes spending ...

The third set of stories and poems covers 'blends'. These are letters which join together to make another sound, for example, br ot, gl as, ia sg. Lists of the words in each set are given below. In ...

A region of the brain further forward allows us to convert the letters we see into sounds and those sounds into language. Finally, another part of the brain converts the jumble of words in any ...

The results are “dramatic,” said Devin Kearns, a professor in early literacy at North Carolina State University, who was not involved with the study. Gains from UFLI are equivalent to 8 months of ...

The short “e” sound is typically found in words where the letter “e” is in a syllable that ends with a consonant. It sounds as in the word “bed.” Here are a few examples: The long “e ...