Alphabets make up the core of preschool learning. The alphabet is the first thing a child needs to learn before anything else ...

A growing number of states, cities, and districts are now requiring schools to teach phonics ... the sounds in speech and the letters that represent them in print was not granted the primacy ...

But to access phonics, children must have certain insights, or the system will make no sense. Students often learn letters but don’t know, for example, that print runs left-to-right or that ...