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Paperback PHONICS AND PHONEMIC AWARENESS (Teacher's Edition) Practice Book. Has wordcards with the words pig, sock and cat on the front cover. Contains the pages of the Phonics and Phonemic Awareness student practice book, with answers on the lines in red. ... Read more

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This completely revised and updated edition summarizes the current research on phonics and offers more than 50 pages of practical suggestions for making phonics instruction come alive in the primary classroom. Includes special sections on meeting the needs of struggling readers and English language learners, speed drill forms and fluency routines, ready-to-use lessons, word lists, games, learning center ideas, and a comprehensive index. For use with Grades K-3. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (12)

Great for basics and beyond
This straight-forward book is easy to read and apply in the classroom.It has an excellent review of phonics for instructors or parents who need to brush up.I particularly enjoyed the many suggested games for phonemic awareness and developing alphabet recognition. This little gem would be a great addition for resource libraries big and small.

An Essential Resource
This book is an essential resource for the elementary school teacher and parent whose children are struggling to learn to read.The teacher who has never been taught the underpinnings of "decoding" our language will have a comprehensive overview here.

Not what I expected
I was looking for something to boost my purchase up to $25 so that I could get free shipping. I got this book, thinking that it was a book to read with my kids. However, the book is an educational book that a teacher would use. Good book, but not what I was expecting.

not much use for homeschool teachers, IMO
This book is very much geared toward teachers teaching in schools, lots of info on phonics theory and assessment, very little on implementation and methodology. This is most definitely not a how-to book.

Wonderful Resource!
I first got this from my library, and am ordering a copy to keep. I have been searching for a resource to help my boys, who both have language delays. My older boy has had huge struggles with reading, and I hope to make it easier for my younger son.

As a homeschooler, I have access to a wealth of phonics resources. Most are geared toward "average" kids, and move way too fast for my boys. Many are workbook-based, which is a poor fit for kids who hate to pick up a pencil, and for moms who would rather make learning more fun. Curricula designed for struggling readers are full of manipulatives I already own or can easily make, and cost hundreds of dollars.

The information in this book will allow me to tailor a course of study to my son's weaknesses and strengths, and ensure that I do not leave out critical steps. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Reading Improvement, published by Project Innovation (Alabama) on September 22, 2000. The length of the article is 3501 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: INVESTIGATING THE STATUS AND PERCEIVED IMPORTANCE OF EXPLICIT PHONIC INSTRUCTION IN ELEMENTARY CLASSROOMS.(Brief Article)
Author: Gary L. Shaffer
Publication: Reading Improvement (Refereed)
Date: September 22, 2000
Publisher: Project Innovation (Alabama)
Volume: 37Issue: 3Page: 110

Article Type: Brief Article

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An innovative, developmental approach to teaching phonics and spelling. Contains lessons in which students select letters to build short and long words. Effective tools for strengthening spelling and phonics skills.Making Words is a multilevel book that explores words and letter patterns while increasing vocabularies. ... Read more

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Wonderful ideas
This book is chock-full of ideas for making words with your students and having fun at the same time!

If they aren't WRITING they aren't remembering...
These are lovely activities...BUT they are NOT multisensory. As a 10 year reading specialist I know students have to WRITE to remember.None of these activities ever have a child writing.WRITING is where the spelling memory is.Spelling/phonics memory has little to do with the visual and more to do with the physical act.

Please pass this by and get something where students can experience writing.

Great intervention tool
As a first grade teacher I used this book as an intervention tool with my ELL students last year.It helped with voacbulary as well as phonics.The activities are hands on and we were able to create several games using the lessons as well.I recommend this book to anyone in the primary grades.It is great as an intervention tool, large group activity or as a center.

Creative
This concept keeps kids interested.They want to figure out the little words and the big words created by the letters, so it's an excellent one for phonics.If you already use Open Court, it would be a good supplement. There is some prep time involved in writing and cutting the letters, unless you're smarter than me and use die-cut letters from a bulletin board!!

Making Words
This book is great!There are many word activities to choose from, which I find very helpful and a time saver! ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from District Administration, published by Professional Media Group LLC on July 1, 2004. The length of the article is 653 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Young minds need P-H-O-N-I-C-S.(Update: education news from schools, businesses, research and government agencies)
Author: Steven Scarpa
Publication: District Administration (Magazine/Journal)
Date: July 1, 2004
Publisher: Professional Media Group LLC
Volume: 40Issue: 7Page: 9(1)

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Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, Vocabulary, Fluency, and Text Comprehension ... Read more

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This educational flip-book is the ultimate time saver for educators and parents teaching phonemic awareness skills.Excellent for whole groups, small groups, or individual instruction. Provides rhyming word lists for both short and long vowels, plus beginning sound word lists for consonants and vowels.Students generate rhyming words or words that begin with the same sound in response to words read out loud.Picture cues accompany each sound.Countless phonemic awareness and expressive language activities can be made from this unique book. ... Read more

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Great Tool for Building Phonemic Awareness!
This flipbook is an easy, useful tool for daily practice or remedial work in phonemic awareness.It includes long word lists for all the letters, plus lists of rhymes for vowels.The lists have many single syllable words that younger children would know; however, I especially appreciate the inclusion of words for older students.Word lists for a single phoneme may include proper and common nouns, compound words, contractions, multisyllabic words, and variant spelling patterns.Many words have prefixes or suffixes.The companion book, A Letteration: FInal and Middle Sounds, may be even more helpful, as middle sounds are harder to generate.These books are helpful additions to any elementary teacher's library.

A Must Have for Parents and Teachers!
A LETTERation Beginning Sounds and Rhymes is a wonderful resource for teachers and parents.It is a valuable tool for teaching and reinforcing phonemic awareness. This book is very beneficial to me as a reading specialist because it can be used with a variety of grade and phonemic awareness levels. The activities are appropriate to use with an individual child, small group, or whole class. My students love to "compete" with each other to see how many words they can generate for the target sound. It is also fun for them to see how many words they thought of compared to the number in the book. The word lists of beginning sounds and rhyming words is endless! The directions are very clear and easy to follow. The prompt card in the back of the book is helpful when students can no longer think of words that begin with the target sound. The author did a fabulous job in making this resource easy to use and beneficial for students. ... Read more

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Best Seller. This innovative book combines phonics and spelling in 150 hands-on activities that will challenge children as they learn new words and sort them by letter patterns, prefixes, suffixes, and big word parts. With each lesson, students use pre-selected letters to make 15-20 words, starting with short words and building up to longer words. And they discover that changing just one letter or the sequence of letters in a word can change its meaning. Includes guidelines for creating lessons to suit your specific needs! ... Read more

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ESL Teacher
I use this book regulary with my second languge students. They enjoy moving around the letters to make words and their spelling has gotten much better.

Perfect medicine for struggling decoders
Even in the third grade, students find difficulties decoding multisyllabic words.Not only does this book make it easier for them, but it exposes them to spelling patterns and sounds that help reading fun.I live by it, and have held workshops for fellow colleagues.They have found it to be beneficial, too.

Older struggling readers
I teach Title 1 disadvantaged reading students, most are learning English as a second language.I did a word a day with my 6th, 7th , and 8th graders.The making words lessons allowed me to introduce vocabulary, point out spelling patterns, talk about vowel variances, and talk about how our words are made up.I asked them to write the words as well as manipulate the letters.Sometimes, I asked them to group the words if there were several words with the same spelling pattern.

Great book for Phonics & Spelling Gr.3-5
This is a great how-to book for one specific phonics & spelling teaching strategy.It has made a big difference in my third graders ability to sound out unknown words and incorporate their knowledge ofspelling patterns.Making Words is geared for K-3rd.Making Big Words isfor 3rd thru 5th graders.It's a hands-on approach and it is veryadaptable.You can do it just as suggested or adjust it to your students'particular need.It includes hundreds of lessons.It can also be used incoordination with thematic units that you may be using in your room.Agreat resource.Worth every penny.I just love Patricia Cunningham! ... Read more

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Evidence demonstrates that LANGUAGE!® The Comprehensive Literacy Curriculum increases the performance of students who are reading two or more years below grade level. Designed specifically for struggling learnersEnglish language learners (ELLs) and students in special education or general educationLANGUAGE! leads to improved reading comprehension and written expression. The consumable Interactive Text contains interactive exercises to develop mastery of the content objectives. Additionally, it contains resources for students including the vowel and consonant charts, student checklists and peer review documents, and fluency activities and charts. ... Read more

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An active and innovative approach to making words that teachers and their students have grown to love is finally here!

Based on its highly successful parent text, Phonics They Use, this new grade-level series Making Words offers teachers a fresh multi-level activity and lesson series written for the kindergarten through fifth grade classroom. Pat Cunningham and Dottie Hall  present classroom teachers with effective tools for strengthening phonics and spelling skills that encourage students to move beyond learning and into a world of word discovery. Each research-based volume includes a wealth of friendly, hands-on, manipulative activities that guide teachers in teaching the development of words--from phonemic awareness to spelling.

In Making Words Third Grade, Pat and Dottie introduce third grade teachers to 70 lessons that teach the homophones, spelling changes, prefixes and suffixes that most third grade curriculums cover. Each Making Words activity contains rhyming words which help children review the more complex vowel patterns. Including homophones, prefixes, suffixes, spelling changes, and complex rhyming patterns allowing third graders at all levels to make progress in their spelling and decoding ability.   

Making Words Third Grade is the best resource you can have on hand for motivating your students to learn words!   

• Features 70 fun and interactive lessons for building rhyming and decoding skills.
• Presents a concise method for involving students in the process of identifying homophones, prefixes, and suffixes and how these change the meanings of words in sentences.
• Promotes student awareness of similarities in words that helps develop writing skills.
• Includes reproducible letter tiles, record sheets for each lesson, and take-home sheets to copy, cut, and/or laminate.
• Highlights a list of useful children's books to extend the Making Words lesson.

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Another One?
Yes! Another one!I have taught first, second, and now next year third grade and every time I change grades I make sure I have a Making Words for that level.My kids love to do these activites.I give them a 2 inch wide strip of paper and they fold it into 8 squares.They write one letter from the activity in each square, tear them apart, and we are ready to go.The activites are easy, fun, and an excellent way to help those kids that need to touch and manipulate letters to make words...hence the title!!These books are a valuable aid to my curriculum.

Planning To Learn
The authors have taken the work out of lesson plans for vocabulary building and spelling. Home schoolers especially should find the book a real time-saver in preparation with lots of drills for one-on-one sessions with your young pupil. ... Read more