A syllable is a beat of sound in a word. The beat can sometimes be part of a word, or the whole word. For example, the word 'window' has two beats ('win' – 'dow') but the word 'door' had just one ...

Then she uses anchor charts and whole brain teaching to teach bossy-r then practice using magic-e, bossy-r, and syllable rules to decode new words. We practice dissecting words into bossy-r, keeping ...