| The Reading Puzzle: Phonics, Grades K-3 Contributor(s): McEwan-Adkins, Elaine K. (Author), Valero, Antonio (Author) |
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ISBN: 1412958210 ISBN-13: 9781412958219 Publisher: Corwin Publishers OUR PRICE: $18.00 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2008 Annotation: About the "Reading Puzzle "SeriesIn her best-selling book "Teach Them All To Read," Elaine McEwan provides a great discussion of the most current reading research regarding how students learn to read so educators can make informed decisions about instruction. Research about reading has given us insight into the skills on which we need to focus our efforts to improve reading and comprehension. Now we can identify the skills that require reinforcement and intervene with explicit, thoughtful instruction. The activities in The Reading Puzzle series will help the teacher accomplish this goal.The Reading Puzzle series provides instructional tools teachers can use immediately as part of the reading curriculum. The Reading Puzzle series contains 10 books for Kindergarten through Grade 8 centered on the skills identified by the National Reading Panel as critical to reading success. Each of these books in the series helps unlock one piece of the reading puzzle and contains standards-based, ready-to-use activities that can be used to supplement any reading program."Phonemic Awareness, Grades K-3" "Phonics, Grades K-3""Vocabulary, Grades K-3""Fluency, Grades K-3""Comprehension, Grades K-3""Word Analysis, Grades 4-8""Spelling, Grades 4-8""Vocabulary, Grades 4-8""Fluency, Grades 4-8""Comprehension, Grades 4-8" These activity books contain ready-to-use activities that make it easy to put McEwan's highly-successful strategies into practice. The strategies and activities will support struggling readers and enhance existing skill to encourage improvement in all students' reading skills."Phonics, Grades K-3" Phonics plays a critical role in reading instruction. Without a solid foundation in phonics, students will continually struggle with literacy. Explicit, systematic, supportive phonics instruction, taught as stand-alone instructional component but within the context of a print-rich classroom environment with a significant literature base, is an absolutely essential (although certainly not sufficient) piece of the reading puzzle???particularly for at-risk students. The activities in this resource are presented in an order that will help you deliver explicit and systematic phonics instruction. ConsonantsShort Vowels and Long VowelsConsonant Blends and DigraphsSight WordsCompound Words This resource offers many engaging and stimulating activities to teach students how to discern the similarities and differences between letters and sounds. The activities include chants and games that will motivate students and encourage them to practice and further develop their phonics skills. The ideas also address different learning styles to meet the needs of all students. These activities can be used during whole-group or small-group instruction as well as in independent learning stations. The activities include many ready-to-use reproducibles that require very little preparation. This will help give you more teaching time to spend providing differentiated instruction in workshop. The lesson content in "Phonics K-3" not only provides an explicit and systematic course of instruction but also offers high-interest activities to keep students on target. Phonics instruction is a key foundation for learning to read and is necessary to ensure that your students will become lifelong readers. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Nonfiction | Concepts - General |
| Dewey: 372.465 |
| Series: Reading Puzzle |
| Physical Information: 0.23" H x 8.52" W x 10.84" (0.63 lbs) 96 pages |
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| Publisher Description: These valuable, grade-leveled resources incorporate reading skills identified by the National Reading Panel as critical to reading success. They provide standards-based, ready-to-use activities to improve spelling, phonological awareness, comprehension, and more! |
Contributor Bio(s): McEwan-Adkins, Elaine K.: - Elaine K. McEwan is an educational consultant with The McEwan-Adkins Group, offering professional development for educators to assist them in meeting the challenges of literacy learning in Grades Pre K-6. A former teacher, librarian, principal, and assistant superintendent for instruction in several suburban Chicago school districts, Elaine is the award-winning and best-selling author of more than three dozen books for educators. Her Corwin Press titles include Raising Reading Achievement in Middle and High Schools: Five Simple-to-Follow Strategies for Principals, Second Edition (2006), Seven Strategies of Highly Effective Readers: Using Cognitive Research to Boost K-8 Achievement (2004), Ten Traits of Highly Effective Principals: From Good to Great Performance (2003), Making Sense of Research: What's Good, What's Not, and How to Tell the Difference (2003), Seven Steps to Effective Instructional Leadership, Second Edition (2003), Teach Them ALL to Read: Catching the Kids Who Fall through the Cracks (2002), and Ten Traits of Highly Effective Teachers: How to Hire, Mentor, and Coach Successful Teachers (2001). McEwan was honored by the Illinois Principals Association as an outstanding instructional leader, by the Illinois State Board of Education with an Award of Excellence in the Those Who Excel Program, and by the National Association of Elementary School Principals as the National Distinguished Principal from Illinois for 1991. She received her undergraduate degree in education from Wheaton College and advanced degrees in library science (MA) and educational administration (EdD) from Northern Illinois University. |