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 ...

Initially, assembling a string of graphemes into a series of phonemes is difficult for children. It must be explicitly taught with active engagement and teacher feedback. It takes time—grapheme by ...

Previous studies report that learning new words is helped when supplemented with written forms, but only if grapheme-phoneme correspondence (GPC) mappings are the same (congruent) as the learners’ ...

Today, after spending two weeks on Punjabi and its writing system Gurmukhi, it’s time to have a little look at some of the terms I have thrown around in those blogs. Off There are many different ...

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 ...