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Jurenka, Nancy – Teacher Ideas Press, 2006
Teaching phonemic awareness can be boring and repetitive in the hands of a teacher who wishes to just use a workbook approach. This delightful book packs loads of fun into 75 lesson plans, providing educators with myriad creative strategies for integrating word study with children's picture books. Each lesson includes a read-aloud book…
Descriptors: Phonemes, Reading Skills, Reading Instruction, Teaching Methods
Fischer, Phyllis E. – 1993
Intended to answer questions from practicing teachers, concerned parents, and college students about the sounds and spelling patterns of English, this book presents an overview of the structure of written words that shows readers how the sounds of English are paired with their spelling patterns. The book delineates the task of decoding written…
Descriptors: Consonants, Decoding (Reading), Elementary Education, English
Bolton, Faye; Snowball, Diane – 1993
Premised on the idea that spelling should be taught in the context of writing, this book is designed to enhance teachers' understanding of how their students learn to spell and to provide advice and practical activities for the day-to-day classroom program. The first part of the book provides specific information about management of the class…
Descriptors: Affixes, Class Activities, Educational Games, Elementary Education
Lusche, Pat – 2003
This book provides an efficient framework for introducing pre-kindergartners and kindergartners to letter-sounds while concurrently promoting reading and writing. The classroom-friendly framework takes letter-sound instruction to a new level by: promoting learning for kindergarten of all ability levels--from the student just learning what sound…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Classroom Techniques, Decoding (Reading), Early Childhood Education
Schiller, Pam – 2000
Combining the language experience approach and phonics instruction, this guide provides parents and early childhood teachers a comprehensive resource for developing a strong foundation for pre-readers. The guide offers over 1,000 activities, games, fingerplays, songs, tongue-twisters, poems, and stories for the letters of the alphabet to develop a…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Emergent Literacy, Games, Language Experience Approach
Blachman, Benita A.; Ball, Eileen Wynne; Black, Rochella; Tangel, Darlene M. – 2000
In order to help kindergartners and first graders who need extra work on their literacy skills, this book offers a plan for teaching phonemic awareness and letter sound correspondence. The plan in the book is a developmentally sequenced, 11-week program to give students repeated opportunities to practice and enhance their beginning reading and…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Elementary School Students, Instructional Materials, Kindergarten Children
Bender, William N.; Larkin, Martha J. – 2003
This guide to reading instruction for elementary and middle school students with learning difficulties covers a wide variety of practical instructional strategies founded in research and proven effective in classrooms. An introductory chapter notes the growing national emphasis on reading skills, especially research-based reading programs and the…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Decoding (Reading), Elementary Education, Instructional Effectiveness
Richards, Regina G. – 1999
This book describes the processing styles inherent in dyslexia and dysgraphia for teacher identification of such students and provides strategies and compensations for students with these disabilities. Strategies for dyslexia and dysgraphia are combined in this book because both of these processing differences are language-based and represent a…
Descriptors: Clinical Diagnosis, Cognitive Processes, Decoding (Reading), Disability Identification
Itzkoff, Seymour W. – 1996
This nontechnical guide for parents and teachers examines learning to read from infants' babbling to the fluent reading of children reading independently for pleasure. Chapter 1, "Baby Speaks," describes language development in infancy. Chapter 2, "Our Alphabet: Language by Ear and by Eye," presents the alphabetic system and…
Descriptors: Alphabets, Dyslexia, Early Reading, Emergent Literacy