Who: Local actress-baker Jeanette Aw was last seen on TV in March, when she reprised her famous Xueniang character from The Little Nyonya (2008) in the spin-off Emerald Hill – The Little Nyonya Story ...

First-grader Mary Greer shows her work during a phonics-based reading lesson at Hunt Valley Elementary School in Springfield, Virginia. (Jahi Chikwendiu/The Washington Post) The “reading wars” that ...

Windows is known for its multitasking capability. It allows you to put multiple apps on your screen, run multiple tabs in one browser, and do a lot of other things. But what most people don’t know is ...

I discuss tried-and-true favorites like KidsTV123 (Phonics Song 2, new version), the Better Alphabet song with Jack Hartmann and Katie Garner, Peachie Speechie for articulation, and Geraldine the ...

To look inside Julie Celestial’s kindergarten classroom in Long Beach is to peer into the future of reading in California. During a recent lesson, 25 kindergartners gazed at the whiteboard, trying to ...

Archival footage from the 1986 Constitutional Convention captures a wide range of Rhode Island accents at a time when they were common among all generations. Many of Rhode Island's present-day ...

It’s 1997, the Asian financial crisis is tanking stock markets and “I’ll Be Missing You” by Puff Daddy and Faith Evans is playing in the market of a southern Malaysian town where one teenage boy, ...

"The Vowel A" teaches viewers about the short and long sounds of the vowel letter A. It explains how the presence of a final 'e' at the end of words changes the sound of A from short to long. Through ...

Depending on your age, there’s a pretty good chance that you or your children learned to read using the “Calkins Curriculum,” named for its founder, Columbia University professor Lucy Calkins. “Lucy ...

A new study has found evidence of big gains in students’ reading ability from using one specific phonics program—and suggests that consistent implementation is key to getting the strongest results.

Primary school children in Victoria will increasingly be taught to read via a teaching method called 'phonics'. It's a way of explicitly teaching sounds, which enables children to decipher unfamiliar ...

In a time of worldwide stress and upheaval, many individuals are searching for an uncomplicated and effortless method of reducing their feelings of stress and tension. Recently, several studies have ...