Phonemic Awareness Activities for Early Reading Success (Grades K-2) [Paperback]

Wiley Blevins (Author)

Book Description

Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up | Series: Teaching Strategies

Phonemic awareness—the understanding that words are made up of sounds—is essential to a child's early reading success. With this book, children gain this awareness through activities that are easy to teach and engaging. Children play with sounds through songs, rhymes, poetry, picture games, and other exercises. The activities cover the five basic levels of phonemic awareness:

• the ability to hear rhymes and alliteration;

• to do oddity tasks;

• to orally blend word and split syllables;

• to orally segment words;

• to do phonemic manipulation tasks.

Blends critical reading skills with joyful word play. For use with Grades K-2.

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Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 5 and up
  
• Paperback: 64 pages
• Publisher: Teaching Strategies (January 1, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0590372319
• ISBN-13: 978-0590372312
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.5 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #165,612 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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121 of 124 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A wonderful book to help k-2 teachers introduce phonemics, December 31, 1997

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This review is from: Phonemic Awareness Activities for Early Reading Success (Grades K-2) (Paperback)

Scholastics and Wiley Blevins have created a wonderful book that clearly explains the what's and why's of phonemic awareness. After Blevins convinces you that this will lead to reading success, especially for the 20% of students that struggle, he uses the buld of this book to present ready-to-use lesson plans. Also included is a professional bibliography and lists of books that you librarian can provide you for a literacy-based phonemic awareness program. The reseach shows that this is a critical process for problem readers, that reading is not a natural process, that phonics instruction without phonemics of little use. A great, inexpensive book that will have a very measureable effect on our students. Also great for home-schoolers and parents- or anyone tired of the endless phonics vs. whole langu age debate.

44 of 44 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Phonics Fun!, August 13, 2000

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This review is from: Phonemic Awareness Activities for Early Reading Success (Grades K-2) (Paperback)

A wonderful book filled with fun activities for the K-2 student. Activities in the book include; phoneme discrimination, rhyme and alliteration, oddity task, oral blending, oral segmentation, phonemic manipulation, and linking sound to spelling. What I like best about the book is that each activity offers a suggestion box with ideas to help children who are having difficulty with the activity. Also, the activities are easy to do, do not take much time, and lots of preparation is not needed. I often hear my students say, can we play Higglety, Pigglety, Pop (a game from the book). This is a great book to use with any reading program.

43 of 44 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent resource for new teachers and tutors, January 14, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Phonemic Awareness Activities for Early Reading Success (Grades K-2) (Paperback)

I tutor kindergarten students in phonemic awareness and found this book to be an invaluable resource in preparing lessons for the children. While many books tend to emphasize phonics, the children that I tutor cannot yet recognize sounds within words, a necessary pre-requisite to phonics instruction. This book is one of a few that gives specific sound - related activities. One tool that I found to be very helpful is a scope and sequence chart that gives a suggestion as to when to introduce new concepts in phonemic awareness. The book also includes a variety of activities including songs, worksheets, and games that help keep kids actively involved in learning to hear sounds within words. The author also included extra picture cards which can be used to personalize and revise the worksheets and games to keep them fresh and interesting. I recommend this book along with Janiel Wagstaff's Irresistible Sound-Matching Sheets and Lessons that Build Phonemic Awareness, and Jo Fitzpatrick's Phonemic Awareness: Playing with Sounds to Strengthen Beginning Reading Skills to anyone who works with children that need to focus on phonemic awareness, whether tutoring in small groups or in a classroom setting.