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Susan M. Greve (Author)
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Publication Date: August 6, 2007 | ISBN-10: 0470127643 | ISBN-13: 978-0470127643
Features kid- and parent-friendly tips and activities

The fun and easy way to grasp the ABCs of reading

Want to introduce your child to reading, or strengthen your child's reading skills? This fun and entertaining guide shows you how to use phonics as an easy and engaging path to reading. Phonics For Dummies contains tips on mastering letter sounds in reading, activities to engage your child's enthusiasm, and advice for making reading interesting and fun.

Discover how to:

  • Use phonics to learn to read
  • Improve reading and spelling skills
  • Master unusual sounds and spellings
  • Build your child's vocabulary
  • Play games that encourage progress

All this on the audio CD:

  • Dozens of letter sounds in friendly lessons
  • Keywords to help your child with reading and spelling
  • Easy examples and tips for your child to follow

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Features kid- and parent-friendly tips and activities

The fun and easy way to grasp the ABCs of reading

Want to introduce your child to reading, or strengthen your child's reading skills? This fun and entertaining guide shows you how to use phonics as an easy and engaging path to reading. Phonics For Dummies contains tips on mastering letter sounds in reading, activities to engage your child's enthusiasm, and advice for making reading interesting and fun.

Discover how to:

  • Use phonics to learn to read
  • Improve reading and spelling skills
  • Master unusual sounds and spellings
  • Build your child's vocabulary
  • Play games that encourage progress

All this on the audio CD:

  • Dozens of letter sounds in friendly lessons
  • Keywords to help your child with reading and spelling
  • Easy examples and tips for your child to follow

About the Author

Susan M. Greve has been a reading specialist for 23 years. She has conducted phonics workshops across the country, and has helped schools and home-schooling parents through tutoring, publishing, and consulting.

Product Details

  • Paperback: 384 pages
  • Publisher: For Dummies (August 6, 2007)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0470127643
  • ISBN-13: 978-0470127643
  • Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.3 x 0.9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful
Complete phonics instruction December 13, 2007
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I am a new teacher who just completed my Master's degree in Elementary Education. I wanted to know more about teaching phonics, so I picked up a few books on the subject. This is one of the best books on phonics that I have found, and you don't need a degree in education to benefit from it. It is written in easy to understand language and does a very thorough job of covering phonics instruction. If you are looking to (1) teach someone to read, (2) improve your own reading skills, and/or (3)choose appropriate phonics reading materials, this book will help. I suggest using additional phonics activity books to round out your instruction, but overall this book is an excellent resource.
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I'm not THIS dumb! September 11, 2008
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The CD that comes with this book graciously tells us the proper sounds of letters such as /a/ in "pan."

The phonics program might be fine for some, but it was far too regimented for me and my kids. The main teaching technique is "Repeat after me: P says puh" (and of course, you must listen to the CD to know how to say "puh" properly--the "uh" part should be barely audible, you see). There is puh-lenty of puh-aper and puh-encil work, but not much else. I realize this is phonics, not jazzercize, but I would like more variety.

I do appreciate that for most of the sounds the author has included a poem that makes use of each sound. I will use the poems to supplement a more dynamic reading program.
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I had a hard time trusting the information in this book because of Dr. Greve's pervasive illogic, untruthfulness, and general fuzzy thinking.

For example, Dr. Greve alleges us that letters "make" sounds (page 15) and that they "say" sounds (page 111) -- something about as sensible as claiming that menus make dinner and license-plate numbers make cars.

People (not letters) make sounds -- letters and their combinations stand for sounds, but never make sounds. (When did you last hear an ink-mark produce any sound whatsoever?)

Claiming that "letters make sound," then, amounts either to fuzzy thinking (if Dr. Greve really believes that letters generate sound) or to blithely dispensed untruthfulness (if Dr. Greve does not believe any such thing, but she wishes us to believe it). Beginning a phonics course with an untruth (and maintaining it thereafter) may make it hard for even a readership of "dummies" to trust the material.

Matters grow worse -- from fuzz or untruthfulness to sheer confusion and self-contradiction Page 16 defines a diphthong as "two letters joined to create a completely new sound" -- other pages give other, and partly or wholly contradictory, definitions for the same word.

This left me giggling when I called to mind Dr. Greve's somewhat strident assertion (page 11) that phonics will cure illogical thought and forgetfulness.

I have no reason to doubt Dr. Greve's statement that she has taught people to read. No matter how well she teaches reading, may one suggest that she refrain from teaching self-contradiction, obfuscation, and confusion of categories along with it?
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following sentences for practice, murmur diphthongs, printing tablet, schwa symbol, blending table, keyword cards, have your child practice, following word list, word strips, vowel chart, schwa sound, consonant digraphs, third sound, vowel digraphs, initial blends, multisyllable words, end blends, ask your child, phonics lesson
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Answer Key, Exploring the Fundamentals of Phonics, Getting Ready, Explaining English Exceptions, Joining Consonants Together, Make More Sounds, Digging Deeper, United States, Moving Beyond the Phonics Basics, Sentence Completion, Finding Happy Endings, Finding the Quick, Stepping Through the Pronunciation Process, Pondering the Power of Phonics, Tackling the Trickier Side of Phonics, Making Long-Vowel Sounds, Phonics For Dummies, Sounds Great, Unusual Spellings, The African, The Part of Tens, Blanks Preparation, Country Mouse, New York, Joke Preparation
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