Students at R. Brown McAllister Elementary School use exercises in phonemic awareness—the ability to recognize and manipulate the sounds in English—during literary instruction on March 19, 2025, in ...

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 ...

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 ...

A new way of teaching reading, already in wide use in the U.S., is challenging the “look-say” method that took over the field beginning 40 years ago. Look-say, best known through the “Dick and Jane” ...

One of the best parts of my job is meeting teachers. Their passion and creativity inspires me everyday as I work for the children of our state. This week I was fortunate enough to announce the 2013 ...

Primary school children in Victoria will increasingly be taught to read via a teaching method called 'phonics'. It's a way of explicitly teaching sounds, which enables children to decipher unfamiliar ...

Colleges across the country have said they’ll turn to online teaching to compete the semester to help contain the spread of the coronavirus. Oh boy. The plan sounds good in theory, but for anyone who ...

The Norwegian band Ylvis’s song, “The Fox (What Does The Fox Say?),” a catchy and Euro-weird tune with a video including lots of fog machines and whipping bushy tails, brings up a pretty good question ...