To argue that schools are over-teaching phonics is to risk being seen as a naysayer—someone who believes the tide will ...

Welcome back to Teaching in Room 9, our region's largest classroom. My name is Julia, I'm a second grade teacher at the Soulard school, and here for Teaching in Room 9, my lessons focus on letters and ...

Educators around the country have embraced the “science of reading” in their classrooms, but that doesn’t mean there’s a truce in the reading wars. In fact, controversies are emerging about an ...

Second-grade teacher Evelyn Mendez admits to getting a bit frightened whenever she ponders her primary responsibility: making sure each child learns to read before summer vacation. “Third grade will ...

Julia starts by reviewing previously learned skills. Julia starts by reviewing previously learned skills and uses an anchor chart, whole brain teaching, and songs in order to practice syllable ...

I am not surprised at the vitriolic remarks made by Rhonda Stone and Joanne Yatvin in their Jan. 7, 2009, letters to the editor excoriating my ostensible focus on “phonics” at the expense of reading ...

Peek inside a kindergarten, first-grade, or second-grade classroom at Midland Public Schools any day of the week, and you’re guaranteed to see adorable kiddos and a flurry of activity. What you’re ...