Teaching a child to read is all about "decoding," a fundamental skill in which readers sound out unfamiliar words. While it may seem like a fancy educational term – and some parents will hear it a ...

“Every word was coined by a resourceful individual or borrowed as a result of language contact in a certain place at a certain time,” writes Anatoly Liberman in his new book, “Word Origins and How We ...

Use vowels to break words into parts. Do you love tasty treats? So do we! Mrs. Mora helps us to understand how to use vowels to break words into parts and how to read and understand multisyllabic ...

Katina Zammit is affiliated with the Australian Literacy Educators Association. When I was younger I decided to learn Greek. I learnt the letter-sound correspondences and could say the words – the ...

After an entire field day with Ghibli, here comes Gigil! The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) has added a list of "untranslatable" words, or those that do not have English equivalents. Gigil is one of ...

Scientists have developed brain implants that can decode internal speech — identifying words that two people spoke in their minds without moving their lips or making a sound. Although the technology ...

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has been all over the news, as has the term "Minnesota nice." It’s a stereotype born from a culture of kindness and politeness and gives words like "weird" extra weight. As ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Hi, my name is Ms McAlister. Welcome to our Mini Lesson. Today's learning intention is to break words ...

The architecture and processes underlying visual word recognition represent some of the most intricate systems in human cognition. The seemingly simple act of reading a word involves not only a ...