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Making Sense of Phonics (hardcover)

From bestselling author Isabel L. Beck--an experienced educator who knows what works--this concise volume provides a wealth of practical ideas for building children's decoding skills by teaching letter-sound relationships, blending, word building, and multisyllable words. Straightforward and accessible, the strategies presented for explicit, systematic phonics instruction are ideal for use in primary-grade classrooms or with older students who are having difficulties. Many specific examples bring the instructional procedures to life while elucidating their underlying rationale; appendices include reproducible curriculum materials. Prologue 1. Introduction 2. The Alphabetic Principle and Phonics 3. Letter-Sound Instruction 4. Blending 5. Word Building 6. Multisyllabic Words Epilogue Appendices: A. CVC Pattern B. Long Vowels of the CVCe Pattern C. Long-Vowel Digraph Patterns D. r -Controlled Vowel Patterns E. Word and Syllable Matrices for Syllasearch F. The Word Pocket Isabel L. Beck, PhD, is Professor of Education in the School of Education and Senior Scientist at the Learning Research and Development Center, both at the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She was a public school teacher before starting her career at the university, where she teaches reading education courses and conducts research. Dr. Beck's work has been acknowledged by awards from the International Reading Association, the National Reading Conference, and the American Federation of Teachers.

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