Have your kids come home singing their ABCs to a familiar tune - but one that somehow sounds just a bit off? You're not ...

They may be written in different directions, or leave out vowel sounds, and the letter forms may change depending on the context (that is, what other letters appear with them). And Chinese, of course, ...

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 ...