Phonemes are the building blocks of language. Represented by letters of the alphabet, they are the component sounds of spoken words. Most people automatically hear, for example, that the word ...

A region of the brain further forward allows us to convert the letters we see into sounds and those sounds into language. Finally, another part of the brain converts the jumble of words in any ...

Today, children are taught to read using phonics, which is all about the sounds that make up words. Children start by learning the letters and the sounds they make, and how to put them together to ...

Baaa and from the sound of it (lamb) you would expect the word to be spelt l, a, m. But lamb has a b on the end of it: l, a, m - b. Ha ha! Not that kind of bee – the letter b. If we pronounced ...