The Big Collection Of Phonics Flipbooks: 200 Reproducible Flipbooks That Target the Phonics & Word Study Skills Every Primary Student Needs to Know [Paperback]

Lynn Gordon (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 2009 | Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up

Build word-decoding skills with this comprehensive collection of reproducible flipbooks that reinforces sound-blending, word families, vowel combinations, initial and final consonant blends, digraphs, prefixes, suffixes, and more. Extension activities, assessments, and dictation exercises are also included to make this the perfect supplement to your reading instruction. A great resource for teachers of beginning and struggling readers, English-language learners, and students who need an extra boost in word-building skills!

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 5 and up
  
• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: Scholastic Teaching Resources (January 1, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0545074185
• ISBN-13: 978-0545074186
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.3 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #64,334 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Lynn Melby Gordon, Ph.D. is a full-time tenured associate professor in the Department of Elementary Education at California State University, Northridge. She is also the founder and chair of the International Reading Association's Phonics Special Interest Group. Dr. Gordon, a phonics expert and dynamic speaker, is frequently invited to speak at schools as well as at local and international reading conferences. She has been the recipient of a variety of awards, grants, and honors including a UCLA alumni award for excellence in scholarship and contribution to the field of education, an Occidental College ALOED (Alumni of Occidental in Education) certificate for outstanding service and leadership in the field of education, and an LAUSD Teamwork Award for dedication to student achievement through volunteerism.

Lynn Gordon grew up in Southern California and attended public schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District. She later earned a B.A. in Liberal Studies and an M.A. in Education from Occidental College, and a Ph.D. in Education (with a specialization in Learning and Instruction) from UCLA. In her early career, Lynn taught elementary school for fourteen years, frequently serving as both a mentor teacher and supervising teacher for CSUN and UCLA student teachers. She reports that her favorite grades to teach were kindergarten and first grade. She eventually became an instructor with UCLA's Teacher Education Laboratory (now Center X) for five years. At California State University, Northridge, Dr. Gordon teaches elementary teacher credential courses on reading instruction. She is also a volunteer trainer for KOREH LA, a non-profit community organization that trains literacy volunteers to work with struggling readers in LAUSD public schools.

Dr. Gordon is the author of numerous scholarly articles. She has written on the topics of school reform, teacher efficacy, classroom management, teacher education in reading, dyslexia, and phonics. In 2009, Scholastic published her teacher resource book, "The Big Collection of Phonics Flipbooks," a collection of reproducible hands-on phonics flipbook patterns, dictation sheets, and 21 phonics assessments designed to meet the needs of beginning and struggling readers.

Lynn Gordon is married and lives in Woodland Hills, California. She and her husband have three sons, a 23-year-old and a set of 13-year-old fraternal twins.

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Reading 911, February 4, 2010

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Gerry Goode (Los Angeles, CA USA) - See all my reviews

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My daughter wasn't catching on to reading in kindergarten. Her teachers were becoming concerned. We ordered this book and I used a bunch of these wonderful phonics flipbooks patterns at home to teach our kindergartner to sound out and blend words. She had so much fun, that she didnt realize that she was actually learning to read. The book included simple directions inside, and we made some flipbooks, and soon our daughter was sounding out a whole bunch of little words like cat, fat, rat, mat, hat. We were amazed! Note that the material is for grades kindergarten through third.
I highly, highly recommend this book for parents of struggling readers and any teacher who teaches beginning reading. My daughter is becoming great reader and a top student in school now.

5.0 out of 5 stars Fabulous!, February 16, 2011

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This phonics flipbook is fabulous! I teach kindergarten/first grade. These reproducible flipbooks have proven to be a real boost in my classroom by reinforcing our learning of word families, blends, and word decoding. They will be perfect to implement when we move into learning about vowel combinations and digraphs. The reading level on Amazon indicates ages 9-12, but that is not accurate, even my kindergartner are able to cut and compile these books. Student were so excited to read their books to classmates and even more thrilled they were able to take them home to read them to their parents. And, now, the second grade teachers are borrowing my Big Collection of Flipbooks.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Must!, March 20, 2011

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From Oz - See all my reviews

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I really don't quite know what I expected when I opened this book for the first time, perhaps I was tired at the end of a long and trying day, but needless to say, I have since revised my initial "what the?" thoughts.

Cons: Printer required. One could reproduce by hand easily enough, and it would be well worth the effort.

Once one has photocopied one's chosen page, cut-out according to the well defined "dotted lines", placed in order as per the list at the top and stapled ... one has the most magical little flip-books that elicit instant success from the child well-schooled in their alphabet sounds. One can also play with the set format with either the addition or deletion of words in the logical sequence, eg I added "d" to the "am" sequence (printing "d" from another set) of "h am", "j am" etc so that "dam" was included. What I found most gratifying was the fact she has only just started, and how quickly she read "sw am" as "swam" and "cl am" as clam (not really a familiar word as most don't eat clam chowder in this part of the world, although she is familiar with the marine bivalve). Inspired, we produced a few more "flipbooks" with the same easy result, this has not only consolidated her work at school, but, removed the tedium and limitations along with the realisation that she can progress/succeed indepenent of her classroom setting. This boosts confidence, by learning away from the prying eyes of one's peers, there is no comparative-pressure, especially when one is four and others are six.

Each page, both recto and verso, comprises one "flipbook" (equating to 400, not 200 "flipbooks"), comprehensively organised into long, short & silent e vowels, long vowel phonograms, diphthongs, consonant blends, prefixes, suffixes etc, etc. Suffice to say, do your child a favour, ensure your child knows their sounds (play I-spy with sounds and letter names etc) and buy this book.

By-the-way, I didn't purchase from Amazon, wish I had, @$16.49 their price is more than half that of elsewhere, in fact I might just purchase another (to give) right now.