Picture Sorting For Phonemic Awareness: Reproducible Picture Cards With Hands-On Sorting Games & Activities That Get Kids Ready for Reading [Paperback]

NANCY JOLSON LEBER (Author), Nancy Jolson Leber (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1, 2003 | Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up

Help kids build phonemic awareness with fun and easy picture sorting games and activities! Designed especially for pre-readers, these hands-on activities help children develop an awareness of sounds that is essential to reading success. Kids sort picture cards by beginning sounds, rhyming words, syllables, and more. Includes dozens and dozens of reproducible picture cards, as well as assessment ideas, word lists, and reproducible game boards. For use with Grades PreK-K.

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Nancy Jolson Leber holds a B.S. in Elementary Education and M.A. in Special Education, and was a resource room teacher prior to becoming an editor. She has written numerous books, including 25 Super-Fun Spelling Games and Easy Activities for Building Social Skills (Scholastic Teaching Resources). Nancy lives in New York City, where she works as an editor at Scholastic and tutors young children in reading and writing.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 4 and up
  
• Paperback: 64 pages
• Publisher: Scholastic Teaching Resources (Theory an (June 1, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0439282314
• ISBN-13: 978-0439282314
• Product Dimensions: 10.7 x 8.3 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #161,189 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Leber--Picture sorting for Phonemic Awareness, October 28, 2008

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Book Editor (Great Neck, NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Picture Sorting For Phonemic Awareness: Reproducible Picture Cards With Hands-On Sorting Games & Activities That Get Kids Ready for Reading (Paperback)

I think this is a wonderful book for parents and early childhood teachers looking for a fun way to help pre-readers learn how to read. The book is easy-to-use. The Table of Contents is very clear. Each skill section follows the same format--Recognizing, Assessment, Reproducible Picture Cards. Parents are shown how to assess their child's ability to recognize rhymes and initial and ending sounds and count syllables and phonemes. The black-and-white reproducible drawings are of easily recognizable pictures. As the children color the pictures, parents can encourage their children to say aloud the names of the pictures and listen to the sounds. Parents are given instructions on how to teach their children the relationship between sounds and letters, the crucial first step towards learning how to read. The book also includes picture-sorting games and activities, and a word list. I highly recommend this book.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Highly Effective and Fun Workbook for Developing Phonemic Awareness, January 19, 2009

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Susan J. Wolk "Special Education teacher" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Picture Sorting For Phonemic Awareness: Reproducible Picture Cards With Hands-On Sorting Games & Activities That Get Kids Ready for Reading (Paperback)

As a special education classroom teacher and tutor specializing in reading, I am extremely impressed with the effectiveness of "Picture Sorting for Phonemic Awareness". Being able to recognize and make rhymes is key to developing phonemic awareness, the foundation for reading words, and "Picture Sorting for Phonemic Awareness" provides children with visually enticing and engaging rhyming activities.
The book is well organized and accessible to parents as well as to teachers and tutors. It provides a clear explanation on how to assess a child's proficiency at rhyming and how to do the activities. Also impressive are the suggestions on how to alter and expand the activities to make them more challenging as children make gains.
While there are many rhyming workbooks on the market, I have found "Picture Sorting for Phonemic Awareness" to be one of the most effective I have used in my 15 years of working with new and struggling readers. The children enjoy the activities and the improvements they make are impressive. I highly recommend this book.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars So helpful, November 8, 2008

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Mimi G. Meisel "M.G.M." (Harrisburg, PA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Picture Sorting For Phonemic Awareness: Reproducible Picture Cards With Hands-On Sorting Games & Activities That Get Kids Ready for Reading (Paperback)

I think this is so helpful for kids about to learn to read. Extremely user-friendly. Provides kids with hands-on practice in recognizing and comparing sounds to get them ready to read.