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

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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.

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.

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.

This is a FABULOUS book! As a reading specialist and first grade teacher, I use this book on on a daily basis. I also use the books below daily and find them indispensable! They both come with ready to use activities that are motivating and fun! The kids absolutely love the activities!!

Quick Small Group Reading Activities for Struggling Students by Sandy Turley
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Phonemic Awareness: Playing With Sounds to Strengthen Beginning Reading Skills by Jo Fitzpatrick and Catherine Yuh

This book was listed as a resource at a preschool literacy conference that I recently attended, and I was able to use many of the activities in my 4's class. There are reproducible cards that can be used to introduce and reinforce beginning sounds, rhyming words, counting syllables, and phonemes. Lots of useful ideas.

This is a great companion to other curriculum. The pictures are simple and easy for children to identify. The students enjoyed finding words that "went together" it was a great way to introduce and reinforce word family knowledge.

This is a great book for teaching children beginning sounds and as they move on into phoneme segmenting.