Phonics They Use : Words for Reading and Writing

by Cunningham, Patricia M.

• ISBN13: 9780205608881
• ISBN10: 0205608884
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-01-01
• Publisher: Allyn & Bacon

Summary

This book is an invaluable resource for any teacher in search of new ideas as this new edition is packed with new activities and strategies for teaching reading.Phonics.Elementary Reading Methods (K-8), Phonological Awareness and Phonics.

Author Biography

Patricia M. Cunningham is a professor of education at Wake Forest University.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. xiii
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. 8
Predictable Charts	p. 12
Writing	p. 17
Getting to Know You	p. 24
Summary	p. 28
Phonological and Phonemic Awareness	p. 29
Developing Phonological Awareness	p. 30
Developing the Concept of Rhyme	p. 31
Teaching Blending and Segmenting	p. 35
Using Names to Build Phonological and Phonemic Awareness	p. 40
Summary	p. 41
Concrete Words, Letter Names, and Sounds	p. 42
Names	p. 42
Alphabet Books	p. 46
Letter Actions and Foods	p. 48
Key Words for Sounds	p. 50
Changing a Hen to a Fox	p. 52
Guess the Covered Word	p. 54
Summary	p. 56
Making Words in Kindergarten	p. 57
Making Words Kindergarten Lesson a-t	p. 59
Pattern: ent	p. 66
Pattern: ay	p. 67
Pattern: ate	p. 68
Summary: How the Foundational Activities Are Multilevel	p. 71
Fluency	p. 73
Fluency Activities	p. 75
Independent Reading Develops Fluency	p. 77
Daily Writing Develops Fluency	p. 79
Rereading Develops Fluency	p. 81
Fluency Development Lessons	p. 84
Summary	p. 85
High-Frequency Words	p. 86
Building Meaning for High-Frequency Words	p. 88
Doing a Word Wall	p. 91
"On-the-Back" Activities	p. 96
Other Word-Wall Practice Activities	p. 104
Portable and Take-Home Word Walls	p. 106
Theme Boards	p. 107
Summary: How the Fluency Activities and Word Walls Are Multilevel	p. 108
Using Phonics and Spelling Patterns	p. 109
Making Words	p. 112
A Sample Making Words Lesson	p. 116
Making Words Homework	p. 121
Additional Making Words Lessons	p. 121
Summary	p. 126
Rhyme-Based Decoding and Spelling Activities	p. 127
Learning the Most Common Rhyming Patterns	p. 127
Rounding Up the Rhymes	p. 128
Using Words You Know	p. 131
Reading/Writing Rhymes	p. 137
Summary	p. 142
Spelling Activities	p. 144
What Looks Right?	p. 145
Word Sorting and Hunting	p. 149
Summary: How the Decoding and Spelling Activities Are Multilevel	p. 153
Big Words	p. 155
Decoding and Spelling Big Words	p. 158
Teaching Common Prefixes and Suffixes	p. 159
Teaching Common Root Words	p. 166
The Nifty Thrifty Fifty	p. 169
Modeling: How to Figure Out a Big Word	p. 176
Word Detectives	p. 179
Big-Word Collectors	p. 182
The Wheel	p. 185
Mystery Word Match	p. 187
Summary	p. 192
Making Words in Upper Grades	p. 193
A Third-Grade Making Words Lesson	p. 195
A Fourth-Grade Making Words Lesson	p. 199
A Fifth-Grade Making Words Lesson	p. 205
Summary: How the Big Words Activities Are Multilevel	p. 211
Coaching, Assessment, Research, and Terminology	p. 213
Coaching for Strategic Decoding and Spelling	p. 214
Coaching during Writing Conferences	p. 215
Coaching during Reading	p. 216
Summary	p. 220
Assessment	p. 221
What Is Assessment?	p. 221
Assessing Early Reading Strategies	p. 222
Assessing Word Strategies	p. 224
The Names Test	p. 229
Summary	p. 234
The Theory and the Research- The Why Underlying the How	p. 235
My Personal Phonics History	p. 236
What We Know about How Good Readers Read Words	p. 240
What We Know about How Children Learn to Read Words	p. 243
Summary: The Research and Phonics They Use	p. 250
Phonics Terminology for Teachers	p. 251
References	p. 257
Index	p. 265
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