Self-Paced Phonics: A Text for Education

Self-Paced Phonics: A Text for Education, 2/e

G. Thomas Baer, Illinois State University

Published June, 1998 by Prentice Hall Career & Technology

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Summary

Students can work at their own pace with minimal direct instruction using this concise workbook designed to provide future teachers with a sound understanding of both the content and pedagogy of phonics. Using evaluative feedback from both students and reading professionals in the field who have used the previous edition, the contents of this workbook have been expanded and strengthened to better serve the needs of prospective teachers. Strong evidence indicates that children who are taught phonics at the beginning stages of reading instruction tend to do better than those who are not. Therefore, the concentration of this text is not on whether or not phonics should be included in beginning instruction, but how phonics can be taught most effectively.

Features

NEW— Significantly expands the chapter practices and cumulative reviews to provide more opportunities for students to work with both the content and pedagogy of phonics.
NEW—Strengthens content coverage by including more information about onsets, rimes, phonograms, and emergent literacy.
NEW—Includes more current references, updated standardized tests, and phonic examples from the latest Basal Series Programs.
NEW—Presents additional information from Beginning to Read: Thinking and Learning about Print by Marilyn Adams to increase the understanding and knowledge of phonics and its role in learning to read. FEATURES
Complements developmental reading methods textbooks which typically give less in-depth coverage of phonics.
Requires “active” learning in all chapters by asking students to respond in writing about items related to content and/or pedagogy.
Provides students with meaningful practice and immediate feedback throughout the text by using practices and cumulative reviews.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction.
2. Phonics Pretest.
3. Phonics Vocabulary.
4. Readiness and Phonics.
5. Phonemes.
6. Phonic Generalizations.
7. Teaching Consonants and Vowels.
8. Syllabication/Accenting.
9. Diagnostic Teaching.
10. Phonics Post-Test.
Appendix A. Answer Key.
Glossary.
References.