By Joyanne James. Do you know the difference between the sounds of the words paw, pore, poor and pour? These four words are homophones in some varieties of English such as in Caribbean countries. In other varieties, only pore, poor and pour have the same sound. This fun activity should …

It is very concerning to see your child celebrate a 7th birthday and still cannot read fluently. At this age, a child is expected to achieve basic reading skills that is applied to many story books in attempt to read better. This foundation prepares a child for lessons in vocabulary, …

EAR is a trigraph as it has 3 letters with one sound. Having a word list with EAR makes learning to spell these words and their meanings easier. It is important to know that a lot of EAR words sound the same as other words with different spellings as in …

EED is a rime in the English language. Words with one syllable that end with the rime EED begin with an onset made up of one consonant as in ‘feed’, or blends with two consonants as in ‘freed’. There are also words with 2 syllables with EED in the second …

EIGH is a 4-letter grapheme that has two different sounds in words. EIGH is called a 4-letter grapheme because it represents one sound as in ‘weigh’ which sounds like the letter A and ‘height’ which sounds like the letter I. The two word lists below contain words with EIGH in …