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Teaching Phonics & Word Study in the Intermediate Grades: A Complete Sourcebook
In this follow-up to the best-selling Phonics From A-Z, you get what you need to teach the phonics your students need: concise background in linguistics you need to know, lively, ready-made lessons for teaching phonics, syllabification, and root words, extensive word lists, quick assessments, daily activities and games, and more. All delivered in a simple, teacher-friendly format. With this book, all your students will learn to read with accuracy, comprehension, fluency, and pleasure. For use with Grades 3-8.
320 pages, Paperback
First published May 1, 2001
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December 22, 2024
This is a great resource for helping older students and adults who struggle with reading.
The author explains what phonics is and gives historical context to how teaching how to read has changed. Then he discusses linguistics and phonemes.
Most helpful are specific ideas of how to teach older readers with word awareness activities, word building, word sorts, and using high-impact routines.
He provides a general scope and sequence for skills and explains how to use morphology to help students decode meaning in related words.
The related word lists have been very helpful for me as I am teaching patterns.
Finally, I liked his instructions for helping students improve their fluency.
1. Teach students to smoosh words together and create phrases rather reading each word separately.
2. Explain the return-sweep eye movement and use a bookmark above the line to advance down to help with finding the next line easily.
3. Teach about the eye-voice span and how your eye can see and read a word before your mouth says it.
4. Partner reading is better than round robin reading because students have more opportunities to read.
5. Teach appropriate phrasing and intonation
6. Use reader's theater to make repeated readings of one text more fun. (Samuels 1979)
7. Have the appropriate level of literature to read. (Teacher supported choral reading can be more difficult, but independent reading should be at their level so they can read with confidence.
**The correspondence of phonemes in different languages to English is very helpful for teaching multilingual learners. I have a student who speaks Vietnamese, and I needed this help to understand where to focus on the sounds that don't have a corresponding sound in their native language. They also have Spanish, Cantonese, and Hmong, which is so helpful!
The author explains what phonics is and gives historical context to how teaching how to read has changed. Then he discusses linguistics and phonemes.
Most helpful are specific ideas of how to teach older readers with word awareness activities, word building, word sorts, and using high-impact routines.
He provides a general scope and sequence for skills and explains how to use morphology to help students decode meaning in related words.
The related word lists have been very helpful for me as I am teaching patterns.
Finally, I liked his instructions for helping students improve their fluency.
1. Teach students to smoosh words together and create phrases rather reading each word separately.
2. Explain the return-sweep eye movement and use a bookmark above the line to advance down to help with finding the next line easily.
3. Teach about the eye-voice span and how your eye can see and read a word before your mouth says it.
4. Partner reading is better than round robin reading because students have more opportunities to read.
5. Teach appropriate phrasing and intonation
6. Use reader's theater to make repeated readings of one text more fun. (Samuels 1979)
7. Have the appropriate level of literature to read. (Teacher supported choral reading can be more difficult, but independent reading should be at their level so they can read with confidence.
**The correspondence of phonemes in different languages to English is very helpful for teaching multilingual learners. I have a student who speaks Vietnamese, and I needed this help to understand where to focus on the sounds that don't have a corresponding sound in their native language. They also have Spanish, Cantonese, and Hmong, which is so helpful!
October 26, 2020
I read the 2nd edition of this book and highly recommend it as a resource for teachers in 2nd-6th grades. It has many helpful lists and tools for teaching phonics and word study.
July 7, 2022
A useful book for upper-elementary teachers looking to strengthen their word-study instruction. The numerous word lists are the most useful features.
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