Ranked #16 in Spelling
Written specifically for grade school teachers and teachers-in-training, this book provides a stand-alone resource for using phonics as a method for teaching children to read. This type of phonics, known as Synthetic Phonics, doesn't rely on sight words or guessing strategies. Instead, it focuses on teaching the letter-sound relationships of the alphabetic code at the start of instruction, and then using that knowledge to both encode (spell) and decode (read) individual words.
It's a method that relies on logic, reason, and the child's need to understand what... more
It's a method that relies on logic, reason, and the child's need to understand what... more