Phonemic Awareness Activities for Early Reading Success (Grades K-2)
Average Rating: out of 7 Reviews
Price: $9.95
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Manufacturer: Scholastic
UPC (Universal Product Code): 078073372317
EAN (European Article Number): 9780590372312
Number of Items: 1
Binding: Paperback
Author: Wiley Blevins
Publisher: Scholastic
Dewey Decimal Number: 372.465
Publication Date: 1999-01-01
Reading Level: 64
Description: Easy, Playful Activities That Prepare for Phonics Instruction Phonemic awareness—the understanding that words are made up of sounds—is essential to a child's early reading success. With this book, children gain this awareness through engaging, easy to teach activities.
Details: This book has helped me a lot with homeschooling. Unlike other books of prereading activities I have seen, many of the activities in this book can be done with just a parent and child, even around the dinner table (we are a weird family, I know).
I have also read Blevins other titles, and I particularly enjoyed Phonics A to Z.
Review Summary: An excellent resource for new teachers and tutors
Date: 2003-01-14
Details: I tutor kindergarten students in phonemic awareness and found this book to be an invaluable resource in preparing lessons for the children. While many books tend to emphasize phonics, the children that I tutor cannot yet recognize sounds within words, a necessary pre-requisite to phonics instruction. This book is one of a few that gives specific sound - related activities. One tool that I found to be very helpful is a scope and sequence chart that gives a suggestion as to when to introduce new concepts in phonemic awareness. The book also includes a variety of activities including songs, worksheets, and games that help keep kids actively involved in learning to hear sounds within words. The author also included extra picture cards which can be used to personalize and revise the worksheets and games to keep them fresh and interesting. I recommend this book along with Janiel Wagstaff's Irresistible Sound-Matching Sheets and Lessons that Build Phonemic Awareness, and Jo Fitzpatrick's Phonemic Awareness: Playing with Sounds to Strengthen Beginning Reading Skills to anyone who works with children that need to focus on phonemic awareness, whether tutoring in small groups or in a classroom setting.
Review Summary: An Amazing Resource
Date: 2001-11-04
Details: This book has been so useful with my inner city first graders. I love it!
Review Summary: Not the best source for phonemic awareness activities
Date: 2001-09-27
Details: Activities are not organized in a developmentally appropriate manner. Does not cover some of the most basic activities to develop awareness of speech sounds (e.g. listening, discriminating) and includes an abundance of activities that would be difficult for children at the pre-reading/early reading level.
Review Summary: A helpful addition to my resource library
Date: 2001-08-11
Details: I found this book to be very helpful. It is full of fun learning games that target exactly what I need to be teaching at the begining of first grade. The children enjoy the activities and master the skills. A teacher can't ask for more than that!
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