Texting dsn’t make U a bad spellr
Children and teenagers today do all the things that children and teenagers have always done – they talk to their friends, have dinner with the family, and watch TV.
However, as even the casual observer…
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As easy as ABC: the way to ensure children learn to read
Human speech has long been present in every culture, and our brains have evolved specialized features to enable its rapid development when we are exposed to the speech of others. Reading however is a relatively…
Sounding off about teaching children to read
There are two main approaches to teaching children to read. Phonics, involves teaching children to recognise combinations of characters and establish the meanings of words based on combining them. The…
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US study shows Google has changed the way students research – and not for the better
Many university students use scholarly databases like they would Google, revealing an astonishingly poor understanding of…