Teaching a child to read is all about "decoding," a fundamental skill in which readers sound out unfamiliar words. While it may seem like a fancy educational term – and some parents will hear it a ...

A syllable is a beat of sound in a word. The beat can sometimes be part of a word, or the whole word. For example, the word 'window' has two beats ('win' – 'dow') but the word 'door' had just one ...