To help with reading and writing new words, you need to be able to recognise the graphemes and know which sounds they represent. Some sounds have more than one grapheme. Have a go at this tap and find ...

In the first long-term study on grapheme-color synesthesia, researchers followed 80 children, including 8 synesthetes, to determine when and how associations between graphemes and colors develop. What ...

New readers who focus on sounding out letters rather than learning whole words tap into that part of the human brain best wired for developing reading skills. The phonics approach to teaching reading ...