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Summary: Great introduction to reading
Review: I found this book extremely helpful for young children in my resouce program. It was especially easy to use with learning disabled children who need a hands on or kinesthetic approach to reading. It can be used with a variety of reading programs including LiPS, Project Read, or Corrective Reading. It can also stand alone in your reading program.
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Summary: Great and fun ideas!
Review: Judy Lynch has provided teachers with easy, useful lessons for teaching word study to emergent readers and writers. The format is easy to follow and the lessons utilize high frequency rimes and onsets. It is the perfect complement to Patricia Cunningham's book, Making Words. Lynch's book can be used with students the first week of school. The compelling, must-have aspect of this book is the blackline masters for the word study mats at the back of the book, the large and small reproducible letters for individual word study sets and the 31 pages of nursery rhymes which reinforce use of the rimes studied in the word study lessons. Appendix A gives simple but superb suggestions for implementing the nursery rhymes. This is a must-have for any teacher involved in a Balanced Literacy classroom! Thanks, Judy.
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Summary: Making Words activities Made Easy!
Review: This book gives you step-by-step instructions for ready-to-teach Making Words lessons!
This terrific book has been around since December of 1998, and I had my copy on order for several months before it was published. I've used it extensively in my first grade classes, and loaned it to every teacher who was even remotely interested in having some pre-made Making Words lessons for their Working With Words block. This year I'm teaching a straight kindergarten class, and none of my kinderkids are quite ready for these formal lessons yet, but I expect that my top readers will be ready for these activities before Winter vacation. This is a must-have for your professional bookshelf.
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Summary: Easy Lessons for Teaching Word Families: Hands On Lessons t
Review: This is a completely usable resource. I use it to help teach my 1st grade students word patterns each and every week. The lessons are provided in a clear and teacher-friendly manner. I especially enjoy the tie-in with nursery rhymes. This tool should be in every first grade class.
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Summary: Easy Lessons for Teaching Word Families: Hands On Lessons t
Review: This is a completely usable resource. I use it to help teach my 1st grade students word patterns each and every week. The lessons are provided in a clear and teacher-friendly manner. I especially enjoy the tie-in with nursery rhymes. This tool should be in every first grade class.
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Summary: Well laid-out book, but LACKING
Review: This is a well-structured book. Each lesson has a plan, as well as the example for how to use the lesson. Despite its structured layout, I find I don't like the sequence of word families. The first lesson goes from -at and -an right into -an and -ash followed by -am, families which I find too complicated to introduce that early in the study of word families. Also, the letter indentification component seems to be out of place for students who are ready to learn word families. If you teach kindergarten, this book won't be usable until probably mid-year, and by the middle of the book, the lessons are easily first grade material. Overall, I prefer the sequence in "Words Their Way" much more to the one presented in this book. If you want a set of canned word family lessons, you'll probably like this book, although the repetitive structure would be boring to students after awhile and you will still need supplemental materials. You get lessons here, but almost no ready-to-use material (mini-books, word sorts, etc, are NOT included). I think there are better resources available.
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Summary: Well laid-out book, but LACKING
Review: This is a well-structured book. Each lesson has a plan, as well as the example for how to use the lesson. Despite its structured layout, I find I don't like the sequence of word families. The first lesson goes from -at and -an right into -an and -ash followed by -am, families which I find too complicated to introduce that early in the study of word families. Also, the letter indentification component seems to be out of place for students who are ready to learn word families. If you teach kindergarten, this book won't be usable until probably mid-year, and by the middle of the book, the lessons are easily first grade material. Overall, I prefer the sequence in "Words Their Way" much more to the one presented in this book. If you want a set of canned word family lessons, you'll probably like this book, although the repetitive structure would be boring to students after awhile and you will still need supplemental materials. You get lessons here, but almost no ready-to-use material (mini-books, word sorts, etc, are NOT included). I think there are better resources available.
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