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 ...

Want to sound more natural when speaking English? In this lesson, you’ll learn how native speakers pronounce American English ...

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 ...

English learners are sometimes an afterthought in 'science of reading' policies. Some educators want to change that.

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 ...

How many vowels does English have? Five, right? A, E, I, O, U. Oh, and sometimes Y. So, six? Actually, English has at least 14 different vowel sounds and, depending on the speaker and dialect, maybe ...

The English language has very interesting sound patterns and pronunciation rules that sets it apart from other languages. These sounds tend to be difficult, if not tiresome for non-native speakers to ...

Fluent English speakers often add sounds between words to link them together. When one word ends with a vowel sound, and the following word begins with a vowel sound, you might hear a subtle /j/ or /w ...