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Synopsis
The long-standing, bestselling classic of strategies and hands-on activities for teaching phonics. In the new edition of this popular book, author and scholar Patricia Cunningham seamlessly weaves together the complex and varied strategic approaches needed to help students develop reading and writing skills. With its focus on how students use phonics to read and write, not just how much phonics a student knows, Phonics They Use includes numerous developmentally appropriate activities for helping students with fluency, rhyme-based decoding, spelling, and more. Updated throughout, this new edition devotes increased attention to morphology as the key to decoding, spelling, and building meaning for big words; includes a new set of lessons, Compound Combos, designed to help teachers introduce morphology to students; introduces a list of 50 key words, the Nifty Thrifty Fifty, which contain a common example for all the common prefixes, suffixes, and spelling changes; includes a new chapter presenting a series of lessonson how togradually teach these 50 words and how manipulating the parts of these 50 words can help decode, spell, and unlock the meaning of over 300 other words; and presents a new chapter on phonics and spelling interventions for older struggling readers.
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Synopsis
A new edition of the long-standing, bestselling classic for teaching phonics, this book is packed with strategies and developmentally appropriate, hands-on activities and a focus on how students use phonics to read and write, not just how much phonics a student knows.
KEY TOPICS: Building the Foundation for Phonics They Can Use; Early Reading and Writing Activities; Phonological and Phonemic Awareness; Concrete Words, Letter Names, and Sounds; Making Words in Kindergarten; Early Reading Concepts: Assessment and Differentiation; Fluency; Fluency Activities; High-Frequency Words; Fluency Assessment and Interventions; Using Phonics and Spelling Patterns; Making Words to Learn Spelling Patterns; Rhyme-Based decoding and Spelling; Assessment and Coaching; Decoding, Spelling, and Building Meanings for Big Words; Decoding and Spelling Big Words; The Nifty Thrifty Fifty--50 Morphemic Key Words; Phonics and Spelling Interventions for Older Struggling Readers; Research and Terminology; The Theory and the Research--The Way Underlying the How; Phonics Terminology for Teachers
MARKET: Current and future classroom teachers.