Making Sense of Phonics

The Hows and Whys

Isabel L. Beck, Mark E. Beck

• Publisher: The Guilford Press
• Year: 2013
• ISBN:
  9781462512065
• Edition: 2
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Teaching Methods for Reading

This bestselling book provides indispensable tools and strategies for explicit, systematic phonics instruction in K-3. Teachers learn effective ways to build students' decoding skills by teaching letter-sound relationships, blending, word building, multisyllabic decoding, fluency, and more. The volume is packed with engaging classroom activities, many specific examples, and research-based explanations. It offers a complete phonics assessment and clear guidelines for sequencing instruction to give every student a strong foundation for reading. More than 30 reproducible forms and word lists are included in the appendices. Purchasers get access to a webpage where they can download and print the reproducible materials in a convenient 8 1/2" x 11" size and find a wealth of supplemental teaching resources.
New to This Edition *Six additional chapters covering key topics, including assessment, phonemic awareness, orthography, and automaticity. *A complete phonics assessment with administering and scoring guidelines. *Downloadable forms and word lists, plus a companion website with rich supplemental resources, including word/syllable cards, assessment tools, and illustrated stories featuring target words, which teachers can project or print for classroom use. *More classroom examples and "Your Turn" activities, as well as expanded word lists. See also Bringing Words to Life, Second Edition: Robust Vocabulary Instruction and Creating Robust Vocabulary: Frequently Asked Questions and Extended Examples, by Isabel L. Beck, Margaret G. McKeown, and Linda Kucan, which provide essential tools for K-12 vocabulary instruction.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Halftitle page
• Title page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• About the Authors
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Contents
• Chapter 1. Situating Phonics Instruction
• Chapter 2. The Alphabetic Principle and Phonics
• Chapter 3. Phonemic Awareness: A Bit of a Different Take
• Chapter 4. The Phonics Landscape
• Chapter 5. Teaching Children the Sounds That Letters Represent
• Chapter 6. Blending
• Chapter 7. Word Building
• Chapter 8. Assessment
• Chapter 9. Multisyllabic Words
• Chapter 10. Syllasearch
• Chapter 11. Orthography: A "Sticking Point in Word Recognition"
• Chapter 12. Automaticity
• Appendix 1. Word Building Lists
• Appendix 2. Specific Phonics Assessments: Administration and Scoring Guidelines
• Appendix 3. Words and Syllable Matrices for Syllasearch
• Appendix 4. The Word Pocket
• Appendix 5. List of Online Teaching Resources
• Glossary
• References
• Index