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 ...

Welcome back to "Teaching in Room 9". Our region's largest classroom. My name is Julia. I'm one of the second grade teachers at The Soulard School, and here for "Teaching in Room 9", this time around ...

This can make learning to spell the words quite tricky! Watch this short video to see some more examples of silent letter words. Vowel sounds are made by the letters 'a', 'e', 'i', 'o' and 'u'.

Completing DailyMail.com's FREE new puzzle GuessWord involves eliminating potential words in as few guesses and as little time as possible. A great way to do that involves ruling out the most ...

Last week's challenge: Last week's challenge comes from listener Jim Bricker, of Wayland, Mass. Think of three common six-letter words that have vowels in the second and fifth positions. The last five ...

The great vowel shift did not involve the shortening or the forward movement of vowels, as Michael Erard says (29 March, p 28). Only the long vowels shifted – upwards – or became diphthongs (two ...

The words you use can have a powerful effect on people, but new research suggests its not the words themselves that carry meaning, but instead its the individual letters. And researchers from Germany ...

Vowel Letter "a" in use to make "cab." Source: Tiggly, used with permission. An image from Tiggly Tales. Overuse of technology is a common and robust discussion within children’s technology research, ...

The various combinations of letters in Wordle are enough to challenge even the sharpest of wordsmiths, but that doesn’t mean you are without help. In this guide, we’ll go through all of the 5-letter ...