Parents are to be given advice on how to sing nursery rhymes, teach the alphabet and a range of other activities they can do with children before they start school, in a bid to close the gap in skills ...

If there’s one thing everyone knows about little kids, it’s that that they can’t ever remember the melody for “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star.” This makes teaching them the alphabet incredibly difficult, ...

Readers respond to a feature about the controversial Initial Teaching Alphabet, which was adopted by some schools in the 1960s but had a lasting impact I was a teacher-training student living in ...