From long experience with teaching undergraduates, I infer that high-school English teachers are instructing their poetry students to count syllables. I don’t know when this started; perhaps with the ...

HAMDEN-- Its structure is succinct and to the point. It normally speaks to things of beauty: nature, love, spirituality. Oddly enough, though it's a form of poetry that's been around for thousands of ...

Forget what you think you know about haiku, that it is poetry fit into a stilted 5-7-5 pattern of syllables. Instead, read this by Pierre’s Chad Lee Robinson: Those, too, are haiku, and haiku deemed ...

Kireji, or cutting word, is an important part of Japanese haiku. It serves as a form of punctuation that separates ...

Learn the values of coins and bills, how to break up words into syllables, and more. Join Glen as he learns the helpful coat flip trick. You’ll also dive into the world of money and investigate the ...

Read a story, practice compounds and syllables, count to ten, and explore weather types. Read YOUNG FRANK, ARCHITECT, explore compound words and syllables, count to ten in various ways, and discover ...

On Back to Love, Anthony Hamilton makes music from declarations. He tells a woman "I'm missing you crazy" in "Who's Loving You," and it's typical of his strategy. He states his thesis, his opinion, ...

Introducing phonological sensitivity at home is easy. Most children’s books already have what you need to get started, but books that rhyme with shorter words will allow you to do all of the following ...