Product Description

Hands-on Lessons That Build Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, Spelling, Reading, and Writing Skills
With these systematic lessons students will learn to make links between phonemic awareness and phonics. Children manipulate their own reproducible letters to make words having high-frequency word patterns and then sort these for common word patterns, and write more words using the sounds they have just practiced. Perfect for small group practice.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #226587 in Books
• Brand: SCHOLASTIC TEACHING RESOURCES
• Published on: 1999-01-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 3.00 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 128 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780590685702
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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About the Author
Judy Lynch is a full time teacher at Madison School near Sacramento, California. Her training as a Reading Specialist and a Reading Recovery® teacher is put into practice daily in primary classrooms. In her free time, Judy also enjoys working with teachers across the U.S. and Canada in the application of research to classroom practice.

Customer Reviews

Absolutely a must if you teach kindergarten and first grade.
This book provides direct, sequential steps of a lesson plan for teaching phonemic awareness and word patterns, not only for emergent readers,but for those children in need of building word awareness and language skills. I use it constantly in a multi-age classroom of 5,6, and 7 year olds. It is a terrific book to use that works well with a variey of levels. If you have the book or use the book MAKING WORDS by Patricia Cunningham, you will definitely want to get this one.

Practical, easy-to-implement lessons in word study.
Judy Lynch has provided teachers with easy, useful lessons for teaching word study to emergent readers and writers. The format is easy to follow and the lessons utilize high frequency rimes and onsets. It is the perfect complement to Patricia Cunningham's book, Making Words. Lynch's book can be used with students the first week of school. The compelling, must-have aspect of this book is the blackline masters for the word study mats at the back of the book, the large and small reproducible letters for individual word study sets and the 31 pages of nursery rhymes which reinforce use of the rimes studied in the word study lessons. Appendix A gives simple but superb suggestions for implementing the nursery rhymes. This is a must-have for any teacher involved in a Balanced Literacy classroom! Thanks, Judy.

Well laid-out book, but LACKING
This is a well-structured book. Each lesson has a plan, as well as the example for how to use the lesson. Despite its structured layout, I find I don't like the sequence of word families. The first lesson goes from -at and -an right into -an and -ash followed by -am, families which I find too complicated to introduce that early in the study of word families. Also, the letter indentification component seems to be out of place for students who are ready to learn word families. If you teach kindergarten, this book won't be usable until probably mid-year, and by the middle of the book, the lessons are easily first grade material. Overall, I prefer the sequence in "Words Their Way" much more to the one presented in this book. If you want a set of canned word family lessons, you'll probably like this book, although the repetitive structure would be boring to students after awhile and you will still need supplemental materials. You get lessons here, but almost no ready-to-use material (mini-books, word sorts, etc, are NOT included). I think there are better resources available.