Phonics They Use : Words for Reading and Writing

by Cunningham, Patricia M.

• ISBN13: 9780205410378
• ISBN10: 0205410375
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-01-01
• Publisher: Allyn & Bacon

Summary

Presents practical, hands-on activities for teaching phonics. K-3.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. ix
Building the Foundation for Phonics They Can Use	p. 1
Early Reading and Writing Activities	p. 3
Early Reading Concepts	p. 4
Shared Reading of Predictable Books	p. 7
Predictable Charts	p. 9
Writing	p. 11
Summary	p. 16
Developing Print Concepts	p. 17
Using Writing to Develop Print Concepts	p. 17
Using Predictable Charts to Develop Print Concepts	p. 19
Using Shared Reading to Develop Print Concepts	p. 21
Getting to Know You	p. 23
Summary	p. 25
Phonological and Phonemic Awareness	p. 26
Developing Phonological Awareness	p. 27
Developing the Concept of Rhyme	p. 28
Teaching Blending and Segmenting	p. 32
Use Names to Build Phonological and Phonemic Awareness	p. 37
Summary	p. 37
Concrete Words, Letter Names, and Sounds	p. 38
Names	p. 38
Alphabet Books	p. 42
Letter Actions and Foods	p. 44
Key Words for Sounds	p. 45
Changing a Hen to a Fox	p. 46
Guess the Covered Word	p. 48
Summary: How the Foundational Activities Are Multilevel	p. 51
Fluency	p. 53
Fluency Activities	p. 54
Independent Reading Develops Fluency	p. 56
Daily Writing Develops Fluency	p. 58
Rereading Develops Fluency	p. 59
Fluency Development Lessons	p. 62
Summary	p. 63
High-Frequency Words	p. 64
Building Meaning for High-Frequency Words	p. 66
Doing a Word Wall	p. 68
"On-the-Back" Activities	p. 71
Other Word-Wall Practice Activities	p. 80
Portable and Take-Home Word Walls	p. 82
Theme Boards	p. 83
Summary: How Fluency Activities and Word Walls Are Multilevel	p. 84
Using Phonics and Spelling Patterns	p. 85
Making Words	p. 87
A Sample Making Words Lesson	p. 90
Making Words Homework	p. 95
Additional Making Words Lessons	p. 95
Summary	p. 99
Rhyme-Based Decoding and Spelling Activities	p. 100
Learning the Most Common Rhyming Patterns	p. 100
Rounding Up the Rhymes	p. 101
Using Words You Know	p. 104
Reading/Writing Rhymes	p. 109
Summary	p. 114
Spelling Activities	p. 115
What Looks Right?	p. 115
Word Sorting and Hunting	p. 119
Summary: How All the Decoding and Spelling Activities Are Multilevel	p. 122
Big Words	p. 125
Decoding and Spelling Big Words	p. 127
Big-Word Collectors	p. 127
Modeling: How to Figure Out a Big Word	p. 131
Word Detectives	p. 133
The Wheel	p. 135
Mystery Word Match	p. 136
Summary	p. 140
Roots, Prefixes, and Suffixes	p. 141
Teaching Common Prefixes and Suffixes	p. 142
Teaching Common Root Words	p. 148
The Nifty Thrifty Fifty	p. 151
Making Big Words	p. 157
Summary: How the Big Words Activities Are Multilevel	p. 159
Coaching, Assessment, Research, and Jargon	p. 161
Coaching for Strategic Decoding and Spelling	p. 162
Coaching during Writing Conferences	p. 163
Coaching during Reading	p. 164
Summary	p. 168
Assessment	p. 169
What Is Assessment?	p. 169
Assessing Early Reading Behaviors	p. 170
Assessing Word Strategies	p. 172
The Names Test	p. 176
Summary	p. 181
The Theory and the Research--The Why Underlying the How	p. 182
My Personal Phonics History	p. 183
What We Know about How Good Readers Read Words	p. 187
What We Know about How Children Learn to Read Words	p. 189
Summary: The Research and Phonics They Use	p. 195
Phonics Jargon--For Teachers Only!	p. 196
References	p. 201
Index	p. 207
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