I was organizing my old blog and found this....Why am I talking so passionately about phonics? (lol)But reading it back, I ...

Phonics for people in their 50s is a way of learning that involves relearning the rules for producing sounds from ...

The anatomical differences in our vocal tracts could be one of the sources of our Tower of Babel—the vast difference in languages spoken around the world, according to a study published in the ...

Teach all 6 vowel team groups (ai/ay, ee/ea, oa/ow, igh, ue/ew, oo) with this Orton-Gillingham aligned pack: cards, word lists & more. A vowel team is two or more vowels working together to make one ...

Dog brains segment speech into words in a way previously seen only in humans, a new study from Hungary finds. This suggests that efficient speech processing is not necessarily a consequence of humans' ...

Did loyalists to the English crown think that George Washington, John Adams and Ben Franklin were a bunch of snollygosters and belswaggers brabbling as they droiled and desudated in the July heat? Did ...

Researchers listening off the Caribbean island of Dominica found variations in the mammals’ audible clicks when marine traffic was close Sperm whales produce a specific pattern of clicking noises when ...

French sound artist Remi Klemensiewicz sees the differences between Korean and French in their vowels. Ah, eh, ee, oh, oo — the same basic sounds exist in nearly every language, yet they are never ...

Final vowel in words such as happy, baby and chilly varies clearly by social class across the city Pronunciation of the “happy vowel” is one of the key indicators of social class in Mancunian accents, ...

A new report from scientists at Project CETI demonstrates that the noises that sperm whales make to communicate with each other contain what humans would describe as vowels. If you had to try to ...

Sperm whales’ click-based communication system has patterns that echo how human languages use vowels, according to a new study published today in Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological ...

Looking for engaging, no-prep phonics resources to teach vowel digraphs? This Vowel Digraph Worksheets Bundle is perfect for helping children to master key Phase 3 sounds through fun and effective ...