Phonics Plus

Provides lessons along with thirty-nine reproducible books to help students recognize and comprehend common sight words along with developing their phonics skills.

The activities in this book reinforce skills in decoding, comprehension, word structure, and spelling.

It’s shocking but true. Forty percent of children experience significant difficulty in learning how to read. But it doesn’t have to be that way. In this groundbreaking new book, internationally recognized developmental psychologist and educator Dr. Marion Blank explains why current reading education is failing our children. She goes on to describe her revolutionary new reading system, Phonics Plus Five, which is based on her forty plus years of experience in teaching children from all backgrounds to read. The Reading Remedy offers step-by-step instructions, reproducible forms, and mini-books that parents can start using right away to implement Dr. Blank’s system.

Dominic Wyse and Charlotte Hacking present a ground-breaking account of teaching phonics, reading, and writing. Created from a landmark study, new research, new theory, and cutting-edge teacher professional development, this balanced approach to teaching seeks to improve all children’s learning, and therefore life chances. The book dismantles polarised debates about the teaching of phonics and analyses the latest scientific evidence of what really works. It shows, in vivid detail, how phonics, reading, and writing should be taught through the creativity of some of the best authors of books for children. By describing lessons inspired by ‘real books’, it showcases why the new approach is more effective than narrow phonics approaches. The authors call for a paradigm shift in literacy education. The chapters show how and why education policies should be improved on the basis of unique analyses of research evidence from experimental trials and the new theory and model the Double Helix of Reading and Writing. It is a book of hope for the future in the context of powerful elites influencing narrow curricula, narrow pedagogy, and high stakes assessments. The Balancing Act will be of interest to anyone who is invested in young children’s development. It is essential reading for teachers, trainee teachers, lecturers, researchers, and policy makers world-wide who want to improve the teaching of reading and writing in the English language.

This edition of Phonics, Rhythms, and Rhymesbuilds upon many favorable comments we have received from classroom teachers, parents, administrators, and students studying in undergraduate and graduate programs. Some non-readers need just a little extra assistance in learning to read; and other students are struggling with reading and need more intensive help from classroom teachers and specialists. This research-based book is an ideal teaching resource for the emergent reader on the 3nd grade level and it is for all types of learners. This particular edition is the combined student’s and teacher’s manuals from Levels Cin the Phonics, Rhythms, and Rhymes Reading Program. This approximate 250 page bookis the combined two books which would, in regular print size, constitute a total of 400 pages. Each of the two books are available separately. The teacher’s editions are available in regular-print size which is the same size as this student’s book. They are sold separately in most book stores and contain approximately 200 pages each. Informationand prices are also presented on www.PhonicsRhythmsRhymes.com. The Phonics, Rhythms, and Rhymes Reading Program is comprised of a separate book for students and teachers on the following grade levels: Level K Kindergarten, Level A 1st Grade, Level B 2ndGrade, Level C 3rd Grade, Level D 4th Grade, and Level I Intervention. In the back of this book you will find that the teacher’s edition provides an answer key which makes it possible to understand and to teach reading using a phonological awareness approach. This section is also filled with the best contemporary methods and strategies necessary for teaching Reading successfully. It begins by establishing an understanding of the elemental principles of phonemic awareness. It then explores other letter-to-sound concepts necessary for Phonics. This book continues by etching a lasting memory of the vowel sounds and blending them to consonants

This accessible and reader-friendly book will help you assess and determine the foundational reading needs of each of your K – 5 students. Literacy leaders Jill Dunlap Brown and Jana Schmidt offer an easy-to-use data analysis tool called, "The Columns" for teachers at all levels of experience to make sense of classroom data for elementary readers. This book will guide you in using the tool to identify the root causes of foundational reading deficits and to plan appropriate interventions. Sample case studies allow you to practice identifying needs and matching interventions. Stories and examples throughout the book will encourage you as you help your students meet their full potential. The book provides easy-to-use and printable versions of the data analysis columns that will enable you to put the authors‘ advice into immediate action. These tools are available for download on the book’s product page: www.routledge.com/9780367225070