Even during the times of AI, coding is an important aspect to learn because it fundamentally teaches you a way of problem-solving, critical-thinking, approaching problems in a technological way in your core-thinking, and builds inherent confidence and knowledge around building and creating things. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella recently said that despite AI’s growing role in […]
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When you visit a theme park, you usually get an armband enabled by RFID tag. This tracks your movement and cuts balances of various rides, food, etc. that you experience and consume. This is for the offline world. In the online world, cookies do a similar thing. When you open one tab in your browser,
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When students are learning to read, they’re building mental connections between how words sound to how those sounds are represented by letters. Phonological awareness teaches spelling patterns and spelling rules. It teaches about parts of words called syllables. Learning common syllable patterns can help people become better readers and spellers. Here are the 14 rules
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Syllables are chunks within a word and are the rhythm of a word. Every syllable of every word must have at least one vowel sound. A vowel can stand alone in a syllable, as in u•nit and an•i•mal. It can also be surrounded by consonants, as in jet, nap•kin, and fan•tas•tic. Open syllables are those
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Phonemic Awareness is a subset of Phonological Awareness. All phonemic awareness activities are also phonological awareness activities, but the reverse is not true. The five levels of phonological awareness are: Phoneme-level work (phonemic awareness instruction) has the most direct impact on reading and writing success, so we should start with children early. The other phonological
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As we saw in the previous posts, phonemes are the smallest units of sounds. They’re the sounds in English. And, how the symbols you use to denote them in writing are called graphemes. Then, what are Phonics? Phonics is the system of teaching reading and spelling by connecting the phonemes (sounds) with the graphemes (symbols).
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A phoneme is the smallest unit of speech sound in English that distinguishes one word from another. Since sounds cannot be written, we use letters to represent or stand for the sounds. A grapheme is the written representation (a letter or cluster of letters) of the phoneme sound. In total, in English, there are 44
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English has five vowels, and we all know them – a, e, i, o, u. However, what many people don’t know is that English actually has 20 vowel sounds. This means these vowels are pronounced in twenty different ways depending on certain rules. We will cover some of those sounds in this article, which will reveal
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In order for parents in Odisha to plan for vacations or family holidays with their children and to accommodate at their offices, it is important to take a note of the list of scheduled school holidays for kids. Are you planning for a holiday and you want to avoid the rush or you want to
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What a beautiful game chess is! I remember playing at home with my uncle who was a chess champion. I quickly became one of the top percentile players of chess in my school, not like the absolute top but I usually used to be one of the guys to be constantly featured in semi-finals or
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