Presenting a fully revised edition of A SOUND WAY - the essential resource for teaching phonemic awareness in all classrooms. A SOUND WAY Second Edition provides comprehensive teacher information along with fun, practical activities for students to help strengthen their phonological awareness. Commencing with simple sound-awareness activities, the book progresses to activities designed to develop students' understanding of the way letters are mapped onto these sounds. Students are then shown how to apply knowledge of sounds to reading and spelling. The blackline masters, group activities and manipulatives in A SOUND WAY provide a number of different approaches to practising and reinforcing student phonological awareness, and cater to a variety of learning styles. Activities in A SOUND WAY are suitable for whole-class, small-group and individual instruction.

A step-by-step program that shows parents, simply and clearly, how to teach their child to read in just 20 minutes a day.

"A lucid and passionate case for a more mindful way of listening to and engaging with musical, natural, and manmade sounds." —New York Times In this tour of the world’s most unexpected sounds, Trevor Cox—the “David Attenborough of the acoustic realm” (Observer)—discovers the world’s longest echo in a hidden oil cavern in Scotland, unlocks the secret of singing sand dunes in California, and alerts us to the aural gems that exist everywhere in between. Using the world’s most amazing acoustic phenomena to reveal how sound works in everyday life, The Sound Book inspires us to become better listeners in a world dominated by the visual and to open our ears to the glorious cacophony all around us.

This book is an ideal resource for any teacher who wants to include explicit phonemic awareness instruction in an early reading program. In one easy-to-use 8 1/2" x 11" volume, the authors present three separate sets of phonemic awareness lessons, complete with scripted directions and reproducible learning materials and assessment tools. Incorporating a variety of fun and engaging activities, each set of lessons is field-tested and research-based. Included are developmentally sequenced lessons for the whole class and small groups, more intensive lessons for children struggling with phonemic awareness, and class lessons on the consonant phonemes to help children hear and process the sounds of American English. The lesson sets can be used independently or in combination with each other, and can easily be adapted to meet the needs of specific classes.

Describes how sounds are produced, how sound waves work, and what causes echoes.