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  1. Added Aug 12, 2008 by cgrant
    educational resources- reading games, reading posters, maths games, phonics games, phonics posters, podcasting ideas, ...
  2. Added Aug 22, 2007 by uma and 1 other
    Oakland, CA, August 14, 2007—The Fast ForWord® family of products, educational software that accelerates learning by developing the student brain to process more efficiently from Scientific Learning Corp (NASDAQ:SCIL), has received the highest possible rating from the What Works Clearinghouse (WWC), a research unit established by the U.S. Department of Education. Fast ForWord software specifically earned a positive review for its impact on alphabetics, that is, phoneme awareness and phonics, for K-3 students.
  3. Added Aug 16, 2007 by uma
    Hours are spent doing ineffective drills. Children are bored. Teachers are frustrated restrictive lengthy lessons. School systems are foregoing federal funding to “research-based” curricula. What’s the problem and what’s the solution?
  4. Added Aug 10, 2007 by uma
    Reading specialists have often pitted phonics against holistic word recognition and whole language approaches in the war over how to teach children to read. However, a new study by researchers at New York University shows that the three reading processes do not conflict, but, rather, work together to determine speed.
  5. Added Jul 17, 2007 by tomderis
  6. Added Jul 12, 2007 by brasst and 2 others
    The Starfall learn-to-read website is offered free as a public service. We also provide writing journals and books at a very low cost that can be used with the website or separately. Teachers around the country are using Starfall materials as an inexpensive way to make the classroom more fun and to inspire a love of reading and writing. Primarily designed for first grade, Starfall.com is also useful for pre-kindergarten, kindergarten and second grade. Starfall is perfect for Home Schooling.
  7. Added Jul 12, 2007 by uma
    Like many 7- and 8-year-old girls online, Emily and Kayla Strickland are regulars to Barbie.com and the virtual world Webkinz. But much to their mom's delight, the sisters also have been longtime fans of Starfall, an educational Web site whose star is quickly rising among parents, teachers and kids as young as 2 years old. Like a Sesame Street program, the free Web site teaches kids their ABCs a
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