50 Fill-in-the-Blank Practice Pages That Help Kids Master Essential Phonics Skills for Reading Success

Carefully prepared lessons use the rhythm and rhyme of poetry to teach phonics. This book's 115 read-aloud poems - some from well-known children's authors like Norma Farber, Maurice Sendak, John Ciardi, and Jack Prelutsky, others written specially for this book - immerse children in particular language sounds again and again, in word after word, within an exciting context. Each poem comes with teaching apparatus comprising word lists using the targeted sound, a "focusing talk" to cement and extend students' connection to the poem, and an idea for a hands-on activity. Photocopy masters supply "letter cards" for sounds the book targets. Multiple indexes (by the poem's first line, by title, by sound, and so on) aid ease of use. Grades preK-1. Illustrated. Good Year Books.

Teaching phonics is a delight with this big collection of irresistible poetry! Each kid-pleasing poem helps kids master key decoding skills and targets a key letter-sound relationship--consonants, vowels, blends, digraphs, and more. Includes instant lessons and activities to build phonemic awareness, oral literacy, and all the phonics concepts students need to know to help ensure reading success. Great for shared reading! For use with Grades K-3.

This book shows elementary teachers how and why to use phonogram poems to teach phonics. It includes many sample poems for the most common rimes in children's reading. An intro chapter shows why the onset/rime (phonogram) approach is important to teaching phonics. Chapters with original poems and other texts for the 40 or so most common rimes in children's reading are also included. Approximately 100 poems are included in this book, and there is also information on extending the use of the poems into other activities and texts. Practicing elementary teachers in grades K-3, and parents who are creating reading programs for their children at home.

Plum Gum and Other Chunk Poems is an entertaining book of poetry written by a teacher for the purpose of building fluency in young readers. •Kids love to read the poems because they are funny and written for a child’s sense of humor. •Teachers love the poems because each one is written to emphasize a specific phonics chunk. •Parents love the poems because their children become better readers. Plum Gum and Other Chunk Poems is a must have book for every school library, every reading teacher, every parent who wants to help their child gain reading success, and every child who is discovering the joys of reading. The clever illustrations add to the enjoyment and make it the perfect book for young readers. “Adele Tolley Wilson has captured the sounds and images of language in a playful and entertaining new poetry collection--I have witnessed requests from whole classes of young children to read Plum Gum poems again and again . . .” D. Ray Reutzel, Emma Eccles Jones Professor of Early Childhood Education

100 fill-in-the-blank practice pages that help kids really learn the top high-frequency words.

This giggle packed poetry anthology includes over 130 short phonics poems for decoding and fluency practice. Poems target short and long vowels, vowel teams, r-controlled vowels, blends, digraphs, diphthongs, and so much more... Reading and skill building is a lot of fun with Phonics Poetry!