(upbeat music) - Hi friends, welcome back to Teaching in Room 9, our region's largest classroom. My name's Julia. I'm one of the second grade teachers at The Soulard School. And here for Teaching in ...

Julia starts by reviewing previously learned skills. Julia starts by reviewing previously learned skills and uses an anchor chart, whole brain teaching, and songs in order to practice syllable ...

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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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 ...