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Grade 1 phonics
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This book is an ideal resource for any teacher who wants to include explicit phonemic awareness instruction in an early reading program. In one easy-to-use 8 1/2" x 11" volume, the authors present three separate sets of phonemic awareness lessons, complete with scripted directions and reproducible learning materials and assessment tools. Incorporating a variety of fun and engaging activities, each set of lessons is field-tested and research-based. Included are developmentally sequenced lessons for the whole class and small groups, more intensive lessons for children struggling with phonemic awareness, and class lessons on the consonant phonemes to help children hear and process the sounds of American English. The lesson sets can be used independently or in combination with each other, and can easily be adapted to meet the needs of specific classes.
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Easy, Playful Activities That Prepare for Phonics Instruction
Phonemic awareness—the understanding that words are made up of sounds—is essential to a child's early reading success. With this book, children gain this awareness through engaging, easy to teach activities. ... Read more

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Not enough guidance for otherwise great activities
Normally I would never deduct 2 stars for a single issue, but I felt this issue was critical. The activities themselves, with a few exceptions, are both varied and interesting, but there's no clear guidance as to sequencing, other than a chart that indicates which areas should be covered in which weeks. The problem is that the developmental levels appropriate for activities within each area are all over the map. Some activities in areas designated for early introduction are quite challenging, while some designated for later introduction are so simple as to be mind-numbing. I'm in favor of that kind of variety because all children are different, but not without some guidance - at a minimum they need to be explicitly organized by their relative challenge.

On another note, which did not affect my rating, if you purchase Wiley Blevin's Phonics from A to Z you might want to skip this book. Most of the material is duplicated in that book, including most of the best activities.

Could have been better but worth the money.
I was hoping the book would have more "cut and paste" activities but they are more ideas and you have to go from that.I have ideas too!I need more concrete activities to work with.

The book came in decent time though.

Homeschoolers
This book has helped me a lot with homeschooling.Unlike other books of prereading activities I have seen, many of the activities in this book can be done with just a parent and child, even around the dinner table (we are a weird family, I know).

I have also read Blevins other titles, and I particularly enjoyed Phonics A to Z.

An excellent resource for new teachers and tutors
I tutor kindergarten students in phonemic awareness and found this book to be an invaluable resource in preparing lessons for the children.While many books tend to emphasize phonics, the children that I tutor cannot yet recognize sounds within words, a necessary pre-requisite to phonics instruction.This book is one of a few that gives specific sound - related activities.One tool that I found to be very helpful is a scope and sequence chart that gives a suggestion as to when to introduce new concepts in phonemic awareness.The book also includes a variety of activities including songs, worksheets, and games that help keep kids actively involved in learning to hear sounds within words. The author also included extra picture cards which can be used to personalize and revise the worksheets and games to keep them fresh and interesting.I recommend this book along with Janiel Wagstaff'sIrresistible Sound-Matching Sheets and Lessons that Build Phonemic Awareness, and Jo Fitzpatrick's Phonemic Awareness: Playing with Sounds to Strengthen Beginning Reading Skills to anyone who works with children that need to focus on phonemic awareness, whether tutoring in small groups or in a classroom setting.

An Amazing Resource
This book has been so useful with my inner city first graders. I love it! ... Read more

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Buy this book!
I am using this required text for a graduate level reading course. The guided lessons are very easy to understand and use as a guideline for lesson plans. The book also gives specific books to use for each lesson, which I found to be very helpful. Final thoughts for each chapter gave excellent guidelines for adapting the lessons for special-needs students. Blacklines were excellent teaching resources. ... Read more

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Author Valerie Ellery has updated her bestselling book, Creating Strategic Readers, to help you meet the challenges of educating your 21st-century learners. Here she describes a comprehensive literacy classroom, detailing appropriate curriculum, assessment, and instruction. She then focuses on the five essential reading components - phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension.

The book includes numerous exciting and engaging techniques geared to students' reading levels and incorporating students' multiple intelligences. This updated, revised, and expanded second edition features:

Over 140 classroom-tested techniques
35 new techniques
An expanded focus on educating the whole child
A motivation/engagement section for many techniques
An accompanying CD with a wide assortment of reproducibles and assessment forms

The International Reading Association is the world's premier organization of literacy professionals. Our titles promote reading by providing professional development to continuously advance the quality of literacy instruction and research.

Research-based, classroom-tested, and peer-reviewed, IRA titles are among the highest quality tools that help literacy professionals do their jobs better.

Some of the many areas we publish in include:

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-Response To Intervention/Struggling Readers
-Early Literacy
-Adolescent Literacy
-Assessment
-Literacy Coaching
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Good Information
This book was recommeded to me by the Literacy Coach at our school. It has good information and helpful strategies.However, if you have been in the teaching field for over 25 years, you may just want to review articles/strategies that you have tucked away in your filling cabinet. Much of the information was not new to me.

Literature activites
This product has been useful for classroom lessons. I have used the activities in there to help struggling readers and the activities make it an enjoyable learning experience. The activities can also be student lead. There are many different levels to use with all grades. Some focuses are phonic development and phonological awareness, and it uses a language approach.

Excellent Resource
Creating Strategic Readers is a valuable resource for elementary teachers.It is an excellent mix of theory, research, and practicality!Each of the 5 components of reading, as identified by the National Reading Panel in 2000, is addressed.You will want to have your own copy!

Reading help
This book is a great resource for helping emergent readers.I will be using this alot in my classroom in the future.

Valerie Puts It All Together!
This book takes all the "stuff" we keep hearing about 90min blocks, guided reding, CAI, Shared reasding, etc. and puts is all together in a simple way that makes sense!Ideas you can take and use right away in your classroom and see results.A must for all primary reading teachers! ... Read more

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Learn to enhance your assessment and teaching of phonemic awareness!

Finally teachers have access to a professional development series, Evidence-Based Instruction in Reading, written specifically to guide them in sharpening their understanding of the five key components to Reading First—phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension. This book focuses on phonemic awareness, but each volume in the five-part series addresses one key component and presents friendly tips and strategies that teachers can take right into the classroom.

How to make Phonemic Awareness work for you!

• Consider recommendations for incorporating appropriate reading materials, fostering productive home–school connections, and promoting students’ desire to learn to read and write.
• Read about the findings of current key research studies and learn about their implications for classroom practice.
• Discover how to evaluate your current practices and create concrete plans for change.
• Start a learning community or book club and share your knowledge with colleagues.
• Access useful resources and links to extend and enrich your own learning beyond the classroom.

Teachers rave about A Professional Development Guide to Phonemic Awareness!

"I have been in reading instruction for 33 years and there are teachers in my school who have been in for three years [to] 23 years…with the variation in experience, we have a wide variety of backgrounds…this text brings all that together because of the way it is written…I would use [this book] with my lower grade Reading First teachers and with teachers in grades 2 and 3 for struggling readers. Phonemic Awareness is usually a missing piece in those students who are not on grade level by this time. We could put this information to good use and make it applicable at many grade levels.” 

                                    — Cathy Taylor, Reading First Literacy Coach, Stewart County Elementary School, Lumpkin, GA

Also available in the Evidence-Based Instruction in Reading series:

A Professional Development Guideto Phonics

© 2008ISBN: 0-205-45630-8

A Professional Development Guideto Vocabulary

© 2008ISBN: 0-205-45631-6

A Professional Development Guideto Fluency

© 2008ISBN: 0-205-45629-4

A Professional Development Guideto Comprehension

© 2008ISBN: 0-205-45627-8

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Offering an accessible overview of phonemic awareness, this book provides elementary teachers with scripted lesson plans, progress charts, reproducible forms, and “phun” activities for teaching particular phonemes. ... Read more

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Packed with an updated collection of nearly fifty lessons for children in grades K-3
Victoria Groves Scott's PHONEMIC AWARENESS: READY-TO-USE LESSONS, ACTIVITIES AND GAMES provides an outstanding second, updated edition packed with an updated collection of nearly fifty lessons for children in grades K-3 or students in grades 4-6 who have reading difficulty. Activities are arranged in phonemes or sounds and teaches can sequence them according to skills ranging form rhyming and blending to identification in a fine overview of lesson plans paired with reproducible forms. Very highly recommended for any working with young kids. ... Read more