Phonics for Dummies

by Susan M. Greve

Features kid- and parent-friendly tips and activities

The fun and easy way to grasp the ABCs of reading

Want to introduce your child to reading, or strengthen your child's reading skills? This fun and entertaining guide shows you how to use phonics as an easy and engaging path to reading. "Phonics For Dummies" contains tips on mastering letter sounds in reading, activities to engage your child's enthusiasm, and advice for making reading interesting and fun.

Discover how to: Use phonics to learn to readImprove reading and spelling skillsMaster unusual sounds and spellingsBuild your child's vocabularyPlay games that encourage progress

All this on the audio CD: Dozens of letter sounds in friendly lessonsKeywords to help your child with reading and spellingEasy examples and tips for your child to follow

Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.

356 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2007

Reviews

[Angela]

This is a great phonics resource for parents wanting to teach their child to read. It has great activities to go along with each phonics skill. The activities are easy to apply with minimal resources needed. The book also provides a good list of additional supplemental resources and recommended book for children to read.

[Beyond the Pages with Eva K]

Great resource with lots of helpful info

[Lino Matteo]

Phonics for Dummies
Susan M. Greve
2007

This book made my head hurt. Don’t get me work it was chock full of information – much of it even useful – unfortunately it was overwhelming. Fifty odd years of speaking and reading English and discovering that we were doing it all wrong (I am exaggerating).
Silent W’s
Hard G’s
The UH sound
And so much, much more!


Notes:
22: 100 words of the Dolch word list
• See attached list of top 220 words
24: comic sans font on the computer
35: Memorizing with mnemonics
Part II: Exploring the fundamentals of Phonics
64:…how vowels give the language cadence and flow…
80: Delving into digraphs (two letters one sound)
114: Macron is a straight line, when appears above a vowel, the vowel makes a long sound
A breve is a segment of a circle, when it appears over a vowel, the vowel makes a short sound
126: The 3rd sound of A (as in AW or BALL)
Chapter 9: Delving in Diphthongs and Shortcuts
139: A diphthong is a blend of two vowel sounds in one syllable that’s pronounced as one speech sound…
153: Protecting and preserving the apostrophe
186: …s, c, and g…each of them has two sounds….

Part IV: Tackling the trickier side of phonics

The 5th wave
238: …the Schwa, in dictionaries the symbol is an upside-down e…the schwa can take the place of every single vowel – you just say uh
Chapter 16: Explaining English Exceptions
250: Dealing with Silent letters

297: Ladybug Phonetic Readers, author Jean Bischel

[Jamie Olson]

Not nearly as much information as I was hoping to get. The book was mostly lessons and activities with very little in the way of information for the adult.