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Hello, I’m Mr Firth and today we’re going to be focusing on words that have one or more syllables in them. But first, let’s remind ourselves what a syllable is. A syllable is a beat of sound in a word ...

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Current issues are now on the Chicago Journals website. Read the latest issue.The Elementary School Journal has served researchers, teacher educators, and practitioners in the elementary and middle ...

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 ...

I suppose the emphasis on syllable count came about because it’s easier to teach syllables than to teach the subtle art of simply paying attention. Or is it? I would think teaching the importance (and ...