With his sixth book "The Fish and the Not Fish," Peter Markus wanted write a book that was the first of its kind. So Markus, 48, of Trenton, conceived the idea of "Fish" (Dzanc Books $14.95), a book ...

A syllable is a beat of sound in a word. The beat can sometimes be part of a word, or the whole word. For example 'window' has two beats ('win' – 'dow') but 'door' had just one ('door'). Breaking ...

President Trump is very, very right on one thing: The press has been very, very unfair with him. We keep asking him questions, and then we post his responses, which makes him look, well, coarse. If ...

What are the shortest words with a given number of syllables? “I” and “a” each contain one letter and one syllable, which is the tightest ratio we could realistically expect. Are there any two-letter ...

Julia uses an anchor chart, songs and whole brain teaching to review the 7 syllable types. Julia reviews previously learned skills. Then she uses an anchor chart, songs, and whole brain teaching to ...

How we respond to others' mistakes can hurt or strengthen our relationships. Source: Jared_1103/pixabay Psychologists define the fundamental attribution error as our ...

Hello, I'm Mrs. Hudson and we're going to find ways to remember those tricky spellings. There are so many words to spell. How can you remember all those spellings? Hmm, tricky! Luckily I have two top ...

Do you say car-a-mel or car-mel? Is your "fire" closer to fah-yer or fayr? There is a group of words in English that can be pronounced with two different syllable structures, depending on dialect, ...