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This practical self-study guide provides a strong foundation for phonemic awareness, phonics, and word analysis so in-service teachers can update their knowledge, prepare for teacher certification or study for competency tests. Teachers are able to go through the book on their own and master the concepts and terminology of word analysis and then demonstrate their knowledge by passing a short test on its contents. ... Read more

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Phonics, Phonemic Awareness, and Word Analysis
This product was exactly as described and has been a great help in my phonics course.The product was delivered quickly and the seller did an outstanding job!

good reviewbook
This is a good book. The answers are right beside the questions. It has good material to study. I would recommend it.

Phonics, Phonemic Awareness, and Word Analysis for Teachers
Good reference for new teachers in early childhood education. Lesson samples and ideas are given. You will realize how complex the English language is. Even the structure of words are organized. They are not just simple alphabets and sight words.

Copying your answers won't teach you anything!
I was required to buy this workbook for one of my classes.Turns out, I didn't really learn anything.The fill-in-the-blank structure was nice, but with the answers printed in the column right next to it? Not so much. ... Read more

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This passcode protected website is an online tutorial that serves users as a self-study guide. It examines sound-letter relationships, the spelling patterns of language, and the processing of strategies useful for children. As a practical guide, the content of this tutorial provides a strong foundation for phonemic awareness, phonics and word analysis—featuring five important chapters about word analysis, and two separate phonics chapters. Users are able to get to this website at http://www.prenhall.com/leukinzer and, following the tutorial prompts, master the concepts and terminology of phonics instruction. Self-checks and post-tests allow users to assess their own success with the tutorial contents. For future teachers and in-service teachers who want to inform or refresh their phonics background knowledge.

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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 Kindergarten, Pat and Dottie introduce kindergarten teachers, teachers of emergent second language learners, and teachers of students with special needs to Making Words lessons with step-by-step instructions for developing letter-sound relationships. Each Making Words activity in the book guides teachers in teaching young students how to blend letter sounds together to make a word; then segment or take off a letter and change the beginning letter(s) to make new words with the same spelling pattern or word family.

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

• Features 50 fun and interactive lessons for building phonemic awareness, phonics, and spelling skills.
• Presents a concise method for involving students in the process of identifying phonological units and patterns within words.
• Promotes student awareness of similarities in words that helps develop writing skills.
• Includes photocopiable letter tiles to copy, cut, and laminate for use in the classroom.
• Highlights a list of useful children's books to extend the Making Words lesson.

Customer Reviews (3)

It was OK
Honestly, I felt this book was way pricey for what it was.The lessons are very basic and the letter cards you can make yourself on your own computer.The basic making words lessons you could truly come up with yourself seeing as they are word families, adding beginning or ending consonants.However, it does lay each lesson out for you so the thinking is done for you, and I do like the suggested read aloud books for each lesson. There are 50 lessons in the book, so that part is a plus.

Great Book!
I started using this when we got back from break and have noticed marked improvement in my students' ability to add and delete initial sounds and rhyme.I also have them write the words on dry erase boards.This really takes it to the next level.The only problem is the time consuming set up of making the letter necklaces.

Making Words, Kindergarten
Very useful text that helps develop phonemic and phonological awareness in beginning readers.Adapted for Kindergarten, the letter tiles are made into letter cards the children wear.I think they will love this! ... Read more

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This must-have resource for primary teachers includes dozens of fun activities that help children listen to language and play with sounds- essential readiness skills for phonics instruction. Activity cards can be cut out and laminated to create a handy reference file of fun ideas. A wide selection of reproducibles such as picture cards, word cards, and manipulatives are included. 128 pages. ... Read more

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Phonemic
Students really enjoy the activities that we have done so far. Been using it for intervention for K-1 grade.

Phonemic Awareness
Good book.Easy to use.Lots of ideas for phonemic awareness activities that can be fit in when you have a few minutes to spare.
Margo Ross - kindergarten teacher

This book rates more than 5 stars!
I am a reading specialist, and our school is just beginning a new intervention program for phonics.This book is indispensable for teaching phonological awareness.It has loads of activities for all the "rungs on the ladder" of the phonemic awareness continuum.These include activities for:
Words in a Sentence, Syllables, Rhyming, counting phonemes, etc.Blackline masters for pictures, etc., used in the activities are included.It also includes activities for teaching phonics (phonological awareness does not include printed letters, but phonics does include print.)
I highly recommend this book for teaching beginning reading skills.

Phonics Awareness
This is an excellent resource for k-1 teachers. Full of engaging and thought provoking activities for young children. It makes learning fun!!

Full of great ideas
This book is full of great ideas for literacy centers in the primary classroom.There are great pictures and games that several students can do on their own. This is a must have resource for those that teach early reading. ... Read more

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I NEVER RECEIVED THE BOOK
I never received the book and do not know what steps to take in order to get my money back.Can you offer any assistance?

An Essential Book for Teachers
A book that all teachers could use. It gives lesson plans detail by detail. It helps teach phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, comprehension, and vocabulary. I used it for a college course, which helped me plan a lesson step by step. It gives great suggestions for books to use. It is a great helper. Teaching The Essentials Of Reading With Picture Books: 15 Lessons That Use Favorite Picture Books to Teach Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, Fluency, Comprehension, and Vocabulary

Teaching The Essentials Of Reading With Picture Books: 15 Lessons That Use Favorite Picture Books to Teach Phonemic Awareness, P
Great book!Organized around the 5 essential elements of reading and very easy to use.Best with 1-2 grades.I used this book in a 6 day reading workshop during the summer.It includes quick ideas on particular books using the 5 elements. ... Read more

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Large selection of ideas
What I love about this book is that it takes all of the ideas that I have found and puts them into one simple book.There is so much to choose from. You don't need a lot of reproducibles because it is designed so that the child creates the activities.I found the activities easy, cheap and fun.My daughter learns the letter the first day!I love the songs too.I am a past third grade teacher that is homeschooling preschool. This book is great!

Nothing New
This book is a cheap imitation of a book I found after I bought this one ("Letter of the Week" by the MAILBOX).It has very few reproducibles, and most of the ideas do not give many details.Forexample, for Letter Ait says"Learn about animals, antelope,alligators, and anteaters."

If you are looking for a book to makeyour life easier, this is not it. ... Read more

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Concepts of print, phonemic awareness, and alphabet knowledge are key predictors of early literacy success and school readiness. This book, part of the Preschool Literacy Collection, provides the knowledge and instructional strategies preschool educators and administrators need to help young children learn about these critical areas and become successful early readers and writers. Authors Dorothy S. Strickland and Judith A. Schickedanz explain what children need to know about print in order to become successful readers, how to connect children’s development with learning about print, and how to provide a print-rich environment. Plus, the book offers strategies for helping your preschoolers learn about concepts of print, phonemic awareness, and alphabet knowledge. The strategy-based chapters each include one integrated strategy that addresses various print concepts and feature focused strategies that center on a single print concept. Each integrated strategy -explains what the strategy does and how to do it; -offers variations on the strategy; -tells you what to look for while implementing the strategy; and -includes accommodations for English-language learners, atypical learners, and advanced learners. Ideas for home-school connections, assessment (of both children and programs), and tips for professional development are offered throughout the chapters to extend your learning. A glossary of key terms also is included to help you understand the specialized literacy terms in the book. This book is an essential resource for developing the print-related skills your preschoolers need to become successful readers and writers. ... Read more

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A MUST HAVE for teachers
This book is a great book. Short and quick read with much information in it that will help get some great ideas in your head for learning about print awareness students should have before coming to kindergarten. It's also great for using with students who do not have that connection on working with letters, words and all the beginning things that go with early learning.

Preschool Print
Simple straightforward book that will assist anyone who works with preschoolers to expand the children's ideas about print.Great resource for individuals with and without previous knowledge of phonemic awareness.

Another Wonderful Entry In This IRA Series.
Like the other books in this series (LEARNING ABOUT PRINT, BUILDING A FOUNDATION FOR PRESCHOOL LITERACY, USING CHILDREN'S LITERATURE IN PRESCHOOL, and WRITING IN PRESCHOOL), this book possesses in just under 20 dollars just about all you need on presenting and guiding young children through understanding print.

The text reads clearly. The examples grab you immediately, and the illustrations fill in any gaps.

Anyone in early childhood education (child care or higher education) will appreciate this text. ... Read more

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Are you interested in a phonics program that is part of a balanced reading program? Rather than treating phonics as an end in itself, this brief yet comprehensive book shows how phonics fits into the overall process of a child's learning to read. It helps students understand how phonics can be integrated successfully into an effective classroom reading program. While it includes a wealth of suggestions for practical classroom applications, the book has a solid research knowledge base so that students will understand what they are doing and why they are doing it in the classroom. The text includes information about all types of phonics programs and many different approaches to teaching phonics for reading and spelling. ... Read more

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These valuable, grade-leveled resources incorporate reading skills identified by the National Reading Panel as critical to reading success. They provide standards-based, ready-to-use activities to improve spelling, phonological awareness, comprehension, and more! ... Read more

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Fun sing-a-long!
This flip chart comes with very catchy songs to familiar nursery rhyme tunes that my kids love! They know the tune, so it doesn't take long to learn the songs. Lots of rhyming too! Great way to learn the sounds of letters. My 4 and 5 yr old use it often and it was well worth the money!
Ex: (Tune: Ms Lucie had a Baby)
Hannah had the hiccups
hic hic hic hic hic hic
and all that hic hic hicupping made Hannah feel quite sick
her daddy didn't worry, he knew just what to do
to scare away her hiccups, he simply hollered BOO!

ABC SingAlong
The product was just as expected.Love it and my daughter is using it in her classroom.

Excellent CD!
The letters of the alphabet come alive with these songs set to familiar tunes! The pages are printed on heavy-weight laminated paper, so you could use a dry erase marker to identify the target letter. I am very pleased with my purchase.

The BEST Alphabet song program!
Familiar tunes, fun and silly lyrics, very memorable and fun for kids. We have the book (which is also interactive) too, and got this for the preschool. We ordered another alphabet song product, it was terrible by comparison. This is the best!

Don't love it, don't hate it
Item is ok.It really isn't what I was expecting, but it is decent for the price especially since it was quite a bit cheaper than what Scholastic offered it for.It says it builds phonemic awareness, but I think that might be stretching it.I guess I was expecting songs that reinforced the letter sounds.They don't do that. Helps with letter awareness, but not sure it does much beyond that.Each song is on a different track.Some are rather short and then you need to start them over to play it several times for your child to get the hang of it.
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3 different pictures on cover; mountain, starfish, and butterfly ... Read more

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Phonics, Phonemic Awareness, an Word Analysis for Teachers, Ninth Edition, is a self-paced tutorial approach gives pre-service teachers practical information about phonemic awareness, phonics, and word analysis, and provides in-service teachers with a helpful approach to updating their knowledge, preparing for teacher certification, or studying for competency tests.

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Getting Ready to Read directly addresses the phonological needs of preschool students, emergent readers, English-language learners, and other students who have limited exposure to oral language. This resource includes 40 independent center activities that will help students learn how to analyze and apply the five levels of phonemic awareness (rhythm and rhyme, parts of a word, sequence of sounds, separation of sounds, and manipulation of sounds) in isolation before applying the levels to written language. Each easy-to-prepare activity is presented pictorially for children to follow and in written form for parents when you send the activity home for extra practice. 144 pages. ... Read more

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Wonderful, skill based learning for your students!
The book offers hundreds of small group literacy activities that are based on where children are and where you want to take them. They realize that not all students are cookie cutter and address how to allow them all to grow by meeting them at their current level.I really enjoyed the book and am in the process of creating the activities to start using with small groups.The only down side is that you have to create all activities (cutting, coloring, laminating, etc), it would have been much easier to include full color activities.

Good Resource
This book has many good 'independant reading center' games for children that are learning to read.The pictures are clear and easy to copy and color.I reviewed this book with our reading specialist this spring, and I went home that night and bought it.

Great Ideas!
As a kindergarten teacher who is expected to have her students do independent literacy centers, this book is great! Good ideas, with very few materials to buy. Self checking, and leveled, too! ... Read more

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Quick Lessons, Word Lists, and Reproducible Sound-Matching Sheets That Use Favorite Children¹s Books to Reinforce Phonemic Awareness‹and Delight Emergent Readers!
Great Shared Reading Follow-up!
Harness the power of favorite books with these book-based reproducible sound-matching sheets and lessons. A fresh, fun new way to build phonemic awareness. ... Read more

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Wonderful for phonemic awareness!
This resource is excellent for those educators with the goal of combining meaningful literacy experiences with phonemic awareness exercises.This book is a must buy.

Too repetitive
Upon reading the previous reviews, I ordered this book.I feel that the activities are too repetitive.This may keep a younger child's interest for a few books - but after that I feel they would be bored.I have taught for 6 years in K-2 and I would not recommend this book.
Julia

Hands-on phonemic awareness fun based on favorite books
This book enables you to teach phonemic awareness in a fun, interactive, hands-on way without taking a lot of extra time out of your curriculum.The "sound boards" are based on books we all read to our kids including:Where The Wild Things Are, The Snowy Day, Miss Nelson Is Missing, If You Give A Mouse A Cookie, The Paper Bag Princess, Curious George, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Mrs. Wishy-Washy, Brown Bear, Brown Bear etc.After enjoying the read-aloud or shared reading, the class works with the sound board in a game-like way to practice sound matching with rhyming words, beginning sounds, ending sounds, vowel sounds, and more.The boards are adaptable to use with small groups or individuals of varying needs. They're great to use with older kids who need phonemic awareness practice, too.Everything you need is included in this book--ready-made, ready for you to copy and use.Experience phonemic awareness success with this book!

Lessons Made Easy and Fun
As a teacher of twenty six years, I am excited and impressed by
Ms. Wagstaff's book on phonemic awareness.Lessons using her sound boards are easy, fun and provide immediate feedback.Teachers are able to assess and remediate quickly any student errors.Detailed directions and parent and volunteer letters help to make reinforcement an easy task.This is truly a book for every busy reading teacher, since it's concise, organized, informative and easy to use.I think it will change the way teachers teach. Parents will also enjoy sharing these activities with their child, since many of these books are on childrens' bookshelves or readily available.Most of all, this book is fun for everyone!!

Margo Olsen

Irrestible Sound-Matching Sheets and Lessons
This Book is life saver and time saver for me. I'm always looking for ways that I can focus on Phonemic Awareness that is fun and enjoyable. I teach Kindergarten, so this is something that we do everyday. The titles used in this book are ones that I had already in my books that I had aquired through the years. They are ones that my students really like. The sound-matching sheets give the children the hook they need to remember the sounds that are being used. Janiel has saved hours of time giving you beginning sounds, endings sound, rhyming, consonants and vowel sounds. This book is a must to help the children focus on phonemic awarenes. ... 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 First Grade, Pat and Dottie introduce first grade teachers to100 lessons that teach all the phonics, spelling, and phonemic awareness skills included in most first grade curriculums. Each Making Words activity leads children through a systematic and sequential phonics curriculum. All lessons include practice with the phonemic awareness skills of segmenting and blending as children stretch out words they are making and blend the letters to make new words. Because teaching children letter-sound relationships is easier than teaching children to actually use these letter-sound relationships, all lessons include a transfer step in which children apply the sounds they are learning to spelling new words. 

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

Customer Reviews (3)

This is whole language...Don't buy it.
Moving letters around does nothing for phonics and spelling memory. Please find a better way to teach phonology than this.Students need to write to remember.These activities activate some visual memory but not enough to help many children learn the skills.Remember whole language believes you don't need to teach reading.Kids just soak it up by looking at it.

Excellent classroom tool
I'd recommend this to any teacher! I used this weekly in my classroom when I was teaching 3rd grade~

Just what I need!
I have been able to immediately put this book to use.Being a second grade teacher, I am always looking for additional activities to use with my students. ... Read more