Making Sense of Phonics, First Edition The Hows and Whys

by Beck, Isabel L.

• ISBN13: 9781593852689
• ISBN10: 1593852681
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-11-29
• Publisher: The Guilford Press

Summary

From bestselling author Isabel L. Beck--an experienced educator who knows what works--this concise volume provides a wealth of practical ideas for building children's decoding skills by teaching letter-sound relationships, blending, word building, and multisyllable words. Straightforward and accessible, the strategies presented for explicit, systematic phonics instruction are ideal for use in primary-grade classrooms or with older students who are having difficulties. Many specific examples bring the instructional procedures to life while elucidating their underlying rationale; appendices include reproducible curriculum materials.

Author Biography

Isabel L. Beck is Professor of Education in the School of Education and Senior Scientist at the Learning Research and Development Center, both at the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Table of Contents

Prologue	p. 1
Introduction	p. 13
The Alphabetic Principle and Phonics	p. 19
Letter-Sound Instruction	p. 27
Blending	p. 48
Word Building	p. 55
Multisyllabic Words	p. 64
Epilogue	p. 77
CVC Pattern	p. 83
Long Vowels of the CVCe Pattern	p. 97
Long-Vowel Digraph Patterns	p. 103
r-Controlled Digraph Patterns	p. 109
Word and Syllable Matrices for Syllasearch	p. 113
The Word Pocket	p. 125
References	p. 129
Index	p. 132
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