Last week, we looked at two kinds of poems, the cinquain and the diamante or diamond poem. We explored parts of speech: nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs with poems. Many of you wrote to us and ...

How many syllables are in your name? You probably already know off the top of your head, but count them anyway. I have six. Most of us do the same thing when we're counting. Putting more weight than ...

Learn about open and closed syllables with Isabel Simmons. Syllables are words or parts of words that can be said in one breath. Practice reading, blending, writing, and building words with open and ...

I’m Herbert from Germany. Throughout my whole life speaking English, I did not realize that some vowels in words are “swallowed,” like in the words “vegetable,” “family” and “difference.” First, let’s ...

Teaching in Room 9 is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire Tablet, Roku, Samsung Smart TV, ...

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 ...