Welcome back to Teaching in Room 9, our region's largest classroom. My name is Julia. I'm one of the second grade teachers at the Soulard School. In here for teaching in Room 9, my lessons focus on ...

By using research-supported practices, providing standards-aligned instruction, and immersing teachers in literacy training, ...

Children who move while learning sounds of letters significantly improve their ability to recognize individual letter sounds. Children who move while learning sounds of letters significantly improve ...

Posing as letter shapes while practicing letter sounds is an active and engaging activity. While learning letter sounds, students can pose their bodies in the shape of letters to connect their shape ...

"The Vowel A" teaches viewers about the short and long sounds of the vowel letter A. It explains how the presence of a final 'e' at the end of words changes the sound of A from short to long. Through ...