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Making Words First Grade: 100 Hands-On Lessons for Phonemic Awareness, Phonics and Spelling

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I have been able to immediately put this book to use. Being a second grade teacher, I am always looking for additional activities to use with my students.

I had several below grade level students in my class last year. I used this book and strategy and saw tremendous improvement. One student went from barely spelling his name to at grade level by the end of the year. I enjoy teaching with any hands on material that I can get, so this was terrific. The only thing that would have made it better would be if it came laminated and pre-cut (but I can dream). I pre-sorted the letters I needed for the week's lesson into small pockets, and during centers I would pull students back to my table and give them thier pocket envelope. I loved it. Fun to teach and fun for them.

I'd recommend this to any teacher! I used this weekly in my classroom when I was teaching 3rd grade~

Moving letters around does nothing for phonics and spelling memory. Please find a better way to teach phonology than this. Students need to write to remember. These activities activate some visual memory but not enough to help many children learn the skills. Remember whole language believes you don't need to teach reading. Kids just soak it up by looking at it.