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 ...

Special to the SentinelThe poet Robert Haas tells us haiku is the art of paying attention to the preciousness and particularity of every moment of existence. Indeed! And yet, in classrooms all across ...

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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 patterns ...

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