George W. Lehmann’s imaginative children’s story turns missing vowels into a village-wide problem that teaches the ...

In the past, I’ve written about female pioneers — mostly in the sciences — and they deserve to be celebrated. In each case, great odds were overcome within a society accustomed to touting men.

A Maine school district is testing a new reading curriculum that teaches kids to break words into sounds and blend them back together ...

After previous years of low literacy rates, San Joaquin County is actively making changes to improve student reading scores.

Island View Elementary teacher Teisha Langford walked down the aisle with her husband Scott Langford in a "Q-U" wedding ceremony to teach students the "quah" sound.

Take, for example, the rule of doubling the letters f, l, s, and z when they come after a short vowel in a one-syllable word, such as “stuff”—this is essentially a spelling rule and nothing more. Most ...

I’m sitting at the dining room table doing my Spanish homework while my mother sits across from me, tackling a daunting task: studying for her bat mitzvah. This scene is part of our weekly routine in ...

Amy arrived at our school without the benefit of early childhood education and with limited family support for consistent ...

One popular theory dates back to the American Civil War. Before the Civil War, the South did not have nearly as much linguistic variation as it does today. Back then, the Southern accent was heavily ...

Deare Editor, In a disagreeable wind and raw temperatures, a couple hundred folks gathered March 1 at the Capitol to hear sundry speeches on a common theme; We like ice in our drinks and on our rinks ...

When Toronto-born writer Mandy Pipher met her Swedish husband, Per, she never imagined following him to his tiny hometown.