In this lesson Julia starts by doing a mindful moment Rainbow Breathing exercise and discusses some learning strategies to use in school. Then using letter cards she sings to review the letter sounds ...

Only Slate Plus members can gift Slate stories. Become a member to share 10 free articles a month. How many vowels does English have? Five, right? A, E, I, O, U. Oh, and sometimes Y. So, six? Actually ...

A, E, I, O, U and sometimes Y is not all you need to know about vowels. There's more to these workhorse members of our linguistics inventory than you might think. The most common vowel sound in ...

The English language has very interesting sound patterns and pronunciation rules that sets it apart from other languages. These sounds tend to be difficult, if not tiresome for non-native speakers to ...