During the formative years of reading skills in schools, kids should be introduced to vowel sounds. These are not the easiest lessons, but vowels help them with reading and spelling accuracy. Learning ...

Welcome back to teaching in Room Nine. Our Region's Largest Classroom. My name is Julia, and I'm one of the second grade teachers at the Soulard School, but here for teaching in Room Nine, my lessons ...

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 ...

In this short video, I walk through my favorite way to teach Bossy R or r controlled vowels using er, ir, and ur. I model how I help students stretch out words like bird, whirl, shirt, hurt, and ...