Welcome back to teaching in room nine our summertime edition. My name is Julia. I'm a second grade teacher at the Soulard school but here for teaching in room nine my lessons focus on phonemic ...

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 ...

Balanced Literacy downplays structured phonics, where kids learn by memorizing letters' sounds. Is that why some are ...

It is extremely difficult to convince teachers, teacher-trainers, textbook writers, parents among others that children who squeeze a system of sounds from thin air also have the capacity to learn the ...

The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our newsletters to have stories delivered to your inbox. Consider becoming a member to support our nonprofit journalism. A student in a ...

A new study from the University of Copenhagen’s Department of Nutrition, Exercise and Sports shows that children who use their bodies to 'shape' letter-sounds improve their spelling skills more than ...