Phonics Books for Teachers

Here is everything prospective reading teachers need to know in order to introduce phonics to elementary school children in a way that's interesting and effective. This concise handbook shows future teachers how to teach phonics while, at the same time, “filling in the gaps” in their personal knowledge of the subject. Coverage is focused on decoding, the lynchpin skill in literacy development. Part I addresses the relationship between phonics and literacy, and provides a six-chapter tutorial that will test the reader's own level of skill. In Part Two, dozens of classroom activities are arranged in the order in which research has shown phonics knowledge to be acquired. New coverage includes Onsets and Rimes—addressing common phonemic combinations; Numerous fresh, engaging phonics activities that reflect the latest research in the field. For prospective early childhood reading teachers.

This tenth edition of the best-selling book teaches reading using sounds and spelling patterns. These sounds and patterns are introduced one at a time, and slowly built into words, syllables, phrases, and sentences. Simple step-by-step directions begin every lesson. Although originally designed for K-2 emergent readers, this award-winning book is also successfully being used with adolescent and adult learners, as well as second language learners and students with learning disabilities. Wise and humorous proverbs encourage virtues such as patience, perseverance, honesty, kindness, compassion, courage, and loyalty.

• Offers help for all students including those with learning disabilities or very short attention spans
• Includes extensive examples, word lists, and practice readings that are 100% decodable
• Uses a multisensory method that benefits all learning styles

Phonics for the Teacher of Reading is self-paced program of instruction that has proven to be a useful technique for presenting phonics background knowledge to experienced and practicing teachers.  This book will guide teachers through a series of small steps to help you learn the terminology associated with phonics, and clinch their understanding of letter and sound relationships, onsets and rimes, and how syllables affect pronunciation.  For practicing classroom, reading and special education teachers.

The Spelling Teacher's Lesson-a-Day gives teachers 180 engaging and ready-to-use lessons-one for each day of the school year-that boost spelling skills in students grades 3-6. These lessons may be used as "sponge" or "hook" activities (five-minute lessons to start off each school day) or teachers may simply pick and choose activities from within the book for the occasional spelling lesson. Fry teaches spelling patterns by contrasting homophones (like-sounding words) to help students recognize these spelling patterns in more complex words. He also boosts students' spelling skills by demystifying contractions, abbreviations, capitalization, silent letters, suffixes and prefixes, and more.

• Offers an easy-to-use method for teaching spelling that has been proven to be effective
• Includes 180 ready-to-use, reproducible lessons-one for each day of the school year
• A new volume in the new series 5-Minute FUNdamentals