Learning how to sound out words is required for reading. Parents who do talk about letter sounds help their kids grasp that letters are just speech captured on the page. Think, "Peter Piper picked ...

Then they learn how letters combine to make new sounds (such as SH), and move on to longer words and new reading skills. This guide is especially for parents and carers to explain how phonics work ...

Lawmakers in some states are trying to ban the "cueing" approach, which asks students to rely on pictures or context clues to ...

Along the way, the friends practice letters, sounds and reading words, improvise stories, get letters from their globe-trotting friend Otto, practice social skills, and so much more.