70 Wonderful Word Family Poems: A Delightful Collection of Fun-to-Read Rhyming Poems With an Easy-to-Use Lesson Plan for Teaching the Top 35 Word Families [Paperback]

Beth Handa (Author), Jennifer Wilen (Author)

Book Description

A Delightful Collection of Fun-to-Read Rhyming Poems With an Easy-to-Use Lesson Plan for Teaching the Top 35 Word Families

Set kids on the road to reading success with 70 reproducible, kid-pleasing poems-two for each of the top word families! A fun way to get kids to recognize the most common spelling patterns! Includes teaching tips, extension activities, and student worksheets.

Product Details

• Paperback: 80 pages
• Publisher: Teaching Resources (March 1, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0439201071
• ISBN-13: 978-0439201070
• Product Dimensions: 10.7 x 8.3 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #437,750 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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53 of 53 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not what I hoped for., March 12, 2005

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Mary Owen "Old dog with new tricks" (Salt Lake City, UT) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 70 Wonderful Word Family Poems: A Delightful Collection of Fun-to-Read Rhyming Poems With an Easy-to-Use Lesson Plan for Teaching the Top 35 Word Families (Paperback)

I expected a book of poems that helped to teach the top 35 word families would have a vocabulary that was more in line with K-2 readers. Many of these poems will not be within the reading ability of children who are learning word families. I was promised many examples of the word families in each poem. Many of them only have a few family words, certainly not enough to help emergent readers gain any practice, especially with the higher vocabulary used through out the rest of the poem. Some of the poems are delightful, but on the whole, I was dissapointed with the book.

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Teacher Resource, May 20, 2010

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I am using this book for bi-weekly tutoring sessions ! It is great for word patterns and fluency reading! I recommend it for teachers who use weekly poetry in the classroom!

3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars not dumbed down, May 30, 2007

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This review is from: 70 Wonderful Word Family Poems: A Delightful Collection of Fun-to-Read Rhyming Poems With an Easy-to-Use Lesson Plan for Teaching the Top 35 Word Families (Paperback)

See the excerpts at Amazon to help you make your own decision. The cover has samples of poems. One of the excerpts gives some of the instructions for using the book. This is a creative and entertaining way to teach some phonics. It doesn't teach all of the word families but it does a great job with the ones it does teach. The delightful poems also help with memory skills because the poems are easy to remember. This gives a point of reference. On my website, there is a lot about memory skills for young children.