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 ...

Anna Scretching-Cole helps children learn about the short o sound. Learn about short o with Anna Scretching-Cole. The short o vowel sound often appears in the middle of words like job, jog, or frog.

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'.

Professor William Labov, a University of Pennsylvania linguist and author of the new book Atlas of North American English Phonetics, Phonology and Sound Change, says there is a shift of vowel sounds ...