The National Literacy Trust's annual literacy survey 2025 reveals that one in three children and young people do not enjoy ...

New research led by a team from Royal Holloway and the World Bank asserts that teaching methods should improve, after discovering that global literacy goals will not be met without major intervention.

‘A-e’ sound words, also known as “long a” words, are an essential component of English phonics. These words feature a ...

A unique study has thrown fascinating new light on how young children begin to understand the meaning of words.

Cats are quicker than babies to associate a picture of a word with its corresponding picture, new research shows.

People online shared what words they can't stand for no apparent reason. The post “Panties. Just Say Underwear”: 31 Words ...

Children too young to know words like "impossible" and "improbable" nonetheless understand how possibility works, finds new work with two- and three-year-olds. The findings, the first to demonstrate ...

The brainchild of France Football magazine journalist Gabriel Hanot, the Ballon d’Or is widely seen as the most prestigious award in the footballing calendar. Between 1956 and 1995 the “Golden ...

Phonics teaching involves learning how letters connect to sounds. But as we reported last month, reading scientists say that using cues to read words can undermine phonics instruction, as children ...

This suffix is attached to the end of a word to show that the person doing the shop is a woman. Examples of how it’s used include words like “ACTRESS,” “LIONESS” and “PRINCESS.” ...

Teaching phonics – helping children learn to read by sounding out the letters of words – was only the baseline. “The evidence is so overwhelming that phonics in the teaching of reading is ...