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

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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.

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.

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.

I found this book extremely helpful for young children in my resouce program. It was especially easy to use with learning disabled children who need a hands on or kinesthetic approach to reading. It can be used with a variety of reading programs including LiPS, Project Read, or Corrective Reading. It can also stand alone in your reading program.

This is a completely usable resource. I use it to help teach my 1st grade students word patterns each and every week. The lessons are provided in a clear and teacher-friendly manner. I especially enjoy the tie-in with nursery rhymes. This tool should be in every first grade class.

This book gives you step-by-step instructions for ready-to-teach Making Words lessons!

This terrific book has been around since December of 1998, and I had my copy on order for several months before it was published. I've used it extensively in my first grade classes, and loaned it to every teacher who was even remotely interested in having some pre-made Making Words lessons for their Working With Words block. This year I'm teaching a straight kindergarten class, and none of my kinderkids are quite ready for these formal lessons yet, but I expect that my top readers will be ready for these activities before Winter vacation. This is a must-have for your professional bookshelf.

I know this was not for younger kids, but as I home teach my preschooler I thought I would try it. My boy caught one so well and was happy that if he just learned one thing like "at" sound then he could read, cat, bat, fat, hat, etc. It gave him confidence and helped him learn. The lessons are so similar that after 3-4 I had to start tweeking them, so he wouldn't get bored, but I still used the main list of words. My boy is 4 1/2 and is reading books on his own now.

This is an easy book to implement right away. I made a recording sheet and it was easy to use the lessons to write the words from the word sorts. My kindergarten students have fun guessing what words I will give them next. It gives students experience with word families and looking for similarities in print. I'm very happy with the purchase. My only criticism is that I don't necessarily use the lessons in order beecause some of the earlier lessons ask students to sort more complicated rimes. In kindergarten I'm beginning with very simple ones.

I am currently student teaching and my cooperating teacher uses this book in her classroom. It is a great resource to have if you are teaching word families.

Judy Lynch has done it again! No surprize there!

If you enjoyed her first book, you will be thrilled with this one, and if you are discovering this Reading Expert for the first time. . .congratulations!

Nothing else I have worked with has come close to providing as successful instruction for word families. . .as this book does.
Lessons are sequential. Lessons are user-friendly. Lessons will make you want to teach them (and we all know as teachers that that doesn't always happen!) Lessons will leave your kids feeling successful as word family learners!

Make sure you get two copies so that you still have one when your teaching partner borrows yours and keeps it forever.