Easy Lessons for Teaching Word Families: Hands-on Lessons That Build Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, Spelling, Reading, and Writing Skills [Paperback]

Judy Lynch (Author)

Book Description

Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up

Help students make the link between phonemic awareness (hearing sounds in words) and phonics (the visual details of print) with these 55, systematic lessons. Using big and small letter cards, word boxes, and nursery rhymes—all designed as ready-to-go reproducibles—children manipulate their own letters to make words having high-frequency word patterns. Students then sort these for common word patterns and write more words using the sounds they have just practiced. Perfect for small-group practice, the lessons are arranged by vowel patterns to help teachers pick and choose what their students need. For use with Grades K-2.

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About the Author

Judy Lynch is a full-time teacher at Madison School near Sacramento, California. Her training as a Reading Specialist and a Reading Recovery® teacher is put into practice daily in primary classrooms. In her free time, Judy also enjoys working with teachers across the U.S. and Canada in the application of research to classroom practice.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 5 and up
  
• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Scholastic Teaching Resources (Theory an (December 1, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0590685708
• ISBN-13: 978-0590685702
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.5 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #49,168 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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58 of 59 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely a must if you teach kindergarten and first grade., June 6, 1999

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This review is from: Easy Lessons for Teaching Word Families: Hands-on Lessons That Build Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, Spelling, Reading, and Writing Skills (Paperback)

This book provides direct, sequential steps of a lesson plan for teaching phonemic awareness and word patterns, not only for emergent readers,but for those children in need of building word awareness and language skills. I use it constantly in a multi-age classroom of 5,6, and 7 year olds. It is a terrific book to use that works well with a variey of levels. If you have the book or use the book MAKING WORDS by Patricia Cunningham, you will definitely want to get this one.

40 of 40 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Practical, easy-to-implement lessons in word study., December 12, 1998

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This review is from: Easy Lessons for Teaching Word Families: Hands-on Lessons That Build Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, Spelling, Reading, and Writing Skills (Paperback)

Judy Lynch has provided teachers with easy, useful lessons for teaching word study to emergent readers and writers. The format is easy to follow and the lessons utilize high frequency rimes and onsets. It is the perfect complement to Patricia Cunningham's book, Making Words. Lynch's book can be used with students the first week of school. The compelling, must-have aspect of this book is the blackline masters for the word study mats at the back of the book, the large and small reproducible letters for individual word study sets and the 31 pages of nursery rhymes which reinforce use of the rimes studied in the word study lessons. Appendix A gives simple but superb suggestions for implementing the nursery rhymes. This is a must-have for any teacher involved in a Balanced Literacy classroom! Thanks, Judy.

33 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Well laid-out book, but LACKING, January 18, 2002

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This review is from: Easy Lessons for Teaching Word Families: Hands-on Lessons That Build Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, Spelling, Reading, and Writing Skills (Paperback)

This is a well-structured book. Each lesson has a plan, as well as the example for how to use the lesson. Despite its structured layout, I find I don't like the sequence of word families. The first lesson goes from -at and -an right into -an and -ash followed by -am, families which I find too complicated to introduce that early in the study of word families. Also, the letter indentification component seems to be out of place for students who are ready to learn word families. If you teach kindergarten, this book won't be usable until probably mid-year, and by the middle of the book, the lessons are easily first grade material. Overall, I prefer the sequence in "Words Their Way" much more to the one presented in this book. If you want a set of canned word family lessons, you'll probably like this book, although the repetitive structure would be boring to students after awhile and you will still need supplemental materials. You get lessons here, but almost no ready-to-use material (mini-books, word sorts, etc, are NOT included). I think there are better resources available.