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 ...

Julia uses an anchor chart, songs and whole brain teaching to review the 7 syllable types. Julia reviews previously learned skills. Then she uses an anchor chart, songs, and whole brain teaching to ...

I’m sharing my absolute favorite resources for teaching letters and sounds to preschool and kindergarten kids. These are the videos and websites I always recommend to parents who want their children ...

We are literacy professionals, former reading teachers who now prepare college and graduate students to teach kids how to read. As scholars, we believe in the study, exchange and debate of ideas. But ...

Letter recognition is more than singing the ABCs—it’s a blend of identifying shapes, names, sounds, and forming letters. These skills form the backbone of early literacy and must be taught ...