Phonics They Use: Words for Reading and Writing (5th Edition)

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By: Patricia M. Cunningham
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Written by an outstanding scholar, Phonics They Use seamlessly weaves together the complex and varied strategic approaches needed to help students develop reading and spelling skills. Long-positioned and long-respected as a bestseller by both pre-service and practicing teachers of reading, this affordable text offers a coherent collection of practical, hands-on activities that provide a framework for teaching phonics. The Fourth Edition continues to emphasize that what matters is not how much phonics students know but what they actually use when they need phonics for decoding a new word, for reading and spelling a new word, and for writing. Rather than subscribe to a single theory, Pat Cunningham stresses a balanced reading program---incorporating a variety of strategic approaches--tied to the individual needs of children. Packed with new activities and strategies for teaching reading, this book is an invaluable resource for any new or veteran teacher. Now teachers have access to a new grade-level series Making Words that offers fresh multi-level activities and lessons for the kindergarten through fifth grade classroom. Based on the active and innovative approach to making words that teachers and their students have grown to love in Phonics They Use, this new series is the best resource you can have on hand for motivating your students to learn words! Take a Peek at What's New to the Edition! New Chapter on Making Words in Kindergarten (Ch. 4) describes and provides sample lesson plans on how teachers can make each kindergarten student a letter of the alphabet, using a big letter card, to teaching them how to begin to form words. *New Chapter on Making Words in Upper Grades (Ch. 11) describes and provides sample lessons on how making words has been adapted for use of older students in upper grades, by emphasizing the prefixes, suffixes, roots and spelling changes that are the important decoding and spelling patterns for polysyllabic words. *Inclusion of hints and suggestions for English Language Learners scattered throughout the chapters, which help make phonics and spelling instruction more successful for ELLs as they learn to read and write. These "For English Language Learner" boxes include a variety of ways teachers have adapted the Phonics They Use activities to include their children learning English.

PRODUCT DETAILS

Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
Pub. Date: 13th March 2008
Catalog: Book
Media: Paperback
Number Of Pages: 288
Ean: 9780205608881
Isbn: 0205608884

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I Can Always Coun on Amazon!!!
~ Written on Sep 28, 2009. out of users found this review helpful.

Amazon always come through on time and books are always what the picture shows. I love buying my books from them!

Phonics They Use
~ Written on Sep 22, 2009. out of users found this review helpful.

It is a very reliable book that has many strategies to use for the kids that are learning to read, such as to make word walls, sentence strips, games, etc. This book will come in handy to many teachers.

Whole language doesn't work...come to my school and see.
~ Written on Sep 16, 2009. out of users found this review helpful.

I am a remedial teacher who works with all the students that WHOLE LANGUAGE has failed. Be very careful when you assume 'reading comes naturally' because by the time you see the 20% of your school kids failing you will have officially sacrificed your remedials for the love of this philosophy.

Frank Smith has some good things to say, but he has also said "Dyslexia is a mythical brain disorder". He LIES. Maybe this is why my whole language based college career never mentioned dyslexia. Sorry frank, it exists and it needs to be remediated.

Pat Cunningham's materials are questionable products of whole language that have 'stolen' research based and systematic lingo claiming things I'm pretty sure they can't deliver. Look into 'real spelling' with Melvin Ramsden (who likes Frank Smith)or any Orton Gillingham information.

Great Book!
~ Written on Sep 13, 2009. out of users found this review helpful.

This was one of the books I was required to purchase for school. I eventually lent it to someone and it disappeared. I just had to get another one. This book has so many great ideas for word walls, mini workshops, and helping students to build confidence in themselves while learning to read and write. I use it all the time while making lesson plans. It's great!

Great explanation of phonics activities for Four Blocks
~ Written on Aug 31, 2009. out of users found this review helpful.

This book is such a valuable resource for new teachers. My district uses the Four Blocks literacy model and is heavily influenced by the teachings of Patricia Cunningham. This book gives step by step, easy to follow explanations of practical phonetic activities that can be used in the classroom. It is clearly written and is an asset to any professional teacher's library. This is my third year teaching and wish someone had given this book to me in my first year. Highly recommended for teachers who want to improve their phonics block with easy, fun, and educational activities.

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