English spelling is a crazy mess, but it’s a mess that makes sense if you look at the history of how it got that way. Writing changes much more slowly than speech, so often our spelling reflects older ...

In cultures all over the world, children are exposed to language through repetition, songs, chants, nursery rhymes, and other forms of play. Deaf culture is no different. Leala Holcomb and Jonathan ...

My guest this week on Poetry from Daily Life is Timothy Rasinski, who lives in Stow, Ohio. Tim was told he was a good writer during his master’s degree program. However, his writing is not poetry, but ...

Squishy McFluff author Pip Jones with the best advice on writing stories that rhyme – and the golden rule is never, ever sacrifice a story for a rhyme! On the day started I writing my first children’s ...

It’s time to rhyme. Take a look and find the kind that sounds sublime. Limericks are funny, five-lined poems. They follow an AABBA rhyming pattern, meaning that the first, second and fifth lines rhyme ...