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 ...

Ask an early-elementary teacher what the recently popularized term “science-based reading instruction” means, and the response is likely to include something about decoding—the process of translating ...

After an entire field day with Ghibli, here comes Gigil! The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) has added a list of "untranslatable" words, or those that do not have English equivalents. Gigil is one of ...