Have your kids come home singing their ABCs to a familiar tune - but one that somehow sounds just a bit off? You're not imagining it: the alphabet song is changing. The original song most of us ...

It sounds a little strange to our inner ears when ... I memorized the NATO alphabet for use in ham radio. But there are times, like spelling my name for someone on the phone, where it’s come ...

At a basic level children recognize that letters represent the sounds of spoken words. As children master each letter of the alphabet, they map these letters to the sounds they represent.

When writing English we use the 26 letters of the alphabet. However, when speaking there are roughly 44 different sounds in English. If you're concentrating on the sounds of English, you need 44 ...

This stage introduces the most common letters and the sounds they make. This is different from the letter names many of us learned to read with. The other key skill is segmenting, which is the ...