The hard truth: Multiple-page emails are rarely simple (or read), and long, meandering presentations ensure that you’ll lose your audience’s attention—and the opportunity to connect.

Activity 1. You need to practice reading these tricky words so that you will be able to spell them. Read each word in the first column below and try to match it with the same word in the second ...

Cueing is a commonly used strategy in early reading instruction, in which teachers prompt students to draw on multiple sources of information to identify words. It’s based on the now disproven ...

As The Poke points out, a poem written in 1920 perfectly encapsulates the baffling nature of English. In fact, it's so tricky that even native English speakers with college degrees may struggle to get ...

Even the most worldly people sometimes come across words they aren't sure how to pronounce. It's a state of not-knowing that is fraught with anxiety and insecurity. No one wants to be caught out ...

Google today unveiled an experimental search feature that can tutor you on how to pronounce tricky words. Previously, when you searched for something on Google, you could play an audio and hear ...

As with Google’s word definitions, you’ll also see a little speaker icon, which, when you tap on it, plays an audio clip of someone saying the word so you can hear exactly how to pronounce it.

Activity 1. Read these nine words very carefully. do, to, you, come, he, are, is, his, our. Copy out the table below. Count how many letters are in each word and write the word in the correct column.

Even the most worldly people sometimes come across words they aren’t sure how to pronounce. It’s a state of not-knowing that is fraught with anxiety and insecurity. No one wants to be caught ...