Jack Beresford is a Newsweek Senior Internet Culture & Trends Reporter, based in London, UK. His focus is reporting on trending topics on the Internet, he covers viral stories from around the ...

All of the phonics I teach, starting with the alphabet song, is very explicit. We're teaching one sound and the spelling at a time. It feels really slow to start out with, but then the kids just ...

Social media users appear to be divided as educators are revealing online how they are altering the way in which they teach young students the "ABCs." Different from the classic "Alphabet Song ...

You're not imagining it: the alphabet song is changing. The original song most of us grew up singing (and many of us probably still sing in our heads more often than we'd care to admit ...

An elementary school teacher has confirmed schools are teaching a different version of the "Alphabet Song" and why they are doing it. Alphabet knowledge and the understanding of letter forms ...