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 ...

The words you use can have a powerful effect on people, but new research suggests its not the words themselves that carry meaning, but instead its the individual letters. And researchers from Germany ...

For most of our school lives, we were told a neat little rule: use ‘a’ before words beginning with consonants and ‘an’ before words beginning with vowels. It sounded simple, almost soothingly ...

A good many public figures maintain that the way to raise reading scores is to require that all children learn reading by the method known as “phonics.” ‘He had frogtank where he had hidden it,” reads ...

This can make learning to spell the words quite tricky! Watch this short video to see some more examples of silent letter words. Vowel sounds are made by the letters 'a', 'e', 'i', 'o' and 'u'.

LPs - but is one 'an LP' or 'a LP'? A question from Marta in Poland: I am writing to ask about indefinite articles before a consonant sound. I know this is the reason we say 'a university' although 'u ...

In fact, any letter representing a vowel sound can be pronounced as schwa. For example, the first vowel in the word 'connect' is a schwa sound but it's written with the letter 'o', and the second ...

Anna Scretching-Cole helps children learn about the short e vowel sounds. Learn about short e with Anna Scretching-Cole. The short e vowel sounds often appear in the middle of words like web and bed.