Phonics for Teachers: Self-Instruction Methods and Activities

Phonics for Teachers: Self-Instruction Methods and Activities, 1/e

J. Lloyd Eldredge, Brigham Young University

Published August, 1998 by Prentice Hall Career & Technology

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Summary

Designed for reading methods courses, this helpful text takes a balanced approach to literacy development. This text's format combines a self-paced section, which allows college students to build confidence as they master one section before moving to the next level, and a methods/activities section, which presents teaching activities designed to help elementary school children enhance their word recognition abilities.

Features

Organizes the major portion of the book in a self-instruction and self-testing format to help college students understand phonics and its role in the enhancement of decoding processes and overall reading growth. This format helps professors address the important topic of phonics without heavy demands on valuable class time.
Devotes the remaining part of the book to helping prospective teachers learn how to provide meaningful phonics instruction for elementary school children through books, games, and other enjoyable activities.
Sequences children's phonics activities according to research regarding how phonics knowledge is developed by children.
Contains an original Alphabet Sounds book so students can see how word awareness, rhyme awareness, letter names, and letter sounds can be taught using a children's book.
Includes a self-evaluation pretest and posttest which provide students with information about what they do and do not know about phonics.
Features a review test after each self-instruction chapter to help students see what they have learned from each chapter.

Table of Contents
I. PHONICS SELF INSTRUCTION.

1. Phonics and Literacy Development.
2. Consonants.
3. Vowels.
4. Syllabication and Accent.
5. Teaching Phonics to Children.

II. CLASSROOM PHONICS ACTIVITIES.