Julia uses anchor charts and a song to practice using syllable rules to decode new words.

In all this whole great big country of ours, there is only one state with a single-syllable name, way up there in the ...

In phonological terms, one way to distinguish between a consonant and a vowel in English is that a consonant can come before a vowel in the same syllable whereas another vowel can’t.

“As a middle name, parents want something that they feel is strong but neutral, which is where James and occasionally John ...

A Personal Perspective: How one word can put partners on the same side, rather than against each other.

Several three-syllable English words, like "caramel," "jewelry" and "Realtor," are pronounced as having just two syllables, according to our grammar expert.

Practice words with an r-controlled vowel and work with poems.

So Markus, 48, of Trenton, conceived the idea of "Fish" (Dzanc Books $14.95), a book made up entirely of one-syllable words. "Even Dr. Seuss books have words such as 'about' and 'around' in them ...

If an alveolar stop and the phoneme /l/ occur between vowels, the alveolar stop goes with the first syllable, /l/ with the second syllable. Obviously, any consonants preceding the alveolar stop will ...

On the other hand, the long “a” sound is the same as the name of the letter “a”. It is often found in words where the letter “a” is followed by a silent “e” or in certain vowel combinations like “ai” ...