Spectrum Phonics, 2007 Edition, Grade 4

For additional reinforcement or preparation for standardized tests, help young students improve their phonics skills. Spectrum Grade 4 is aligned to state and national standards and covers blends, hard/soft consonants, long/short vowel sounds, vowel pairs, digraphs, diphthongs, comparative endings, regular and irregular plurals, multiplemeaning words and more. 176 pages with answer key included, softcover, Grade 4.

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Saxon Phonics Intervention, Home Study Kit

If you have older, struggling students who are reading and spelling below their grade level, perhaps it's time for Phonics Intervention. This systematic program will put them on the road to reading success! Lorna Simmons, a former classroom and special education teacher, created the program when her oldest son was still having difficulty reading upon finishing second grade.
In keeping with the Saxon philosophy, this curriculum builds on prior learning, and presents information in small, carefully sequenced increments. Covering consonants, vowels, and reading comprehension, the program offers explicit, systematic strategies for decoding and spelling words. Consumable work sheets, speed drills, and vocabulary tests reinforce learning and provide daily reading opportunities. Students also learn dictionary skills through progressively difficult alphabetizing activities.
The teacher's manual includes all lessons, assessments, speed drills, word lists, and reduced versions of student materials. Kit includes a teacher's manual, student workbook, and classroom materials. Grades 4 and up.

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Phonics Pathways, 9th Edition: Clear Steps to Easy Reading and Perfect Spelling

Teach students of all ages the rudiments of phonics and spelling with this efficient, practical, and foolproof method. Written in an easy-to-use format, Phonics Pathways is organized by sounds and spelling patterns. The patterns are introduced one at a time and slowly built into syllables, words, phrases, and sentences.

Printed in a large 8-1/2" x 11" lay-flat format for easyphotocopying and filled with illustrative examples, wordlists, and practice reading that are 100 percent decodable, Phonics Pathways is ideal for school, tutoring, and home use. It also includes wise, humorous proverbs that encourage virtues such as patience, perseverance, honesty, compassion, courage, and loyalty. Softcover, 266 pages.

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Spell to Write and Read

Based on the principles of internalizing (spelling), recognizing (reading), composing (writing) and comprehending (understanding) words, Spell to Write and Read utilizes phonics to teach spelling. Seventy phonograms and twenty-eight spelling rules are the basis for everything else learned, and is presented in a positive manner instead of filled with exceptions to the rules. Each lesson is filled with historical and spelling notes on each concept, and is filled with examples, demonstrations and activities for each new rule or phonic. Filled to the brim with information to spell and compose. Spelling lists are included. This overall teacher's manual replaces Teaching Reading at Home & School as the companion to the spelling list in Wise Guide for Spelling. 238 pages, softcover.

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How to Teach Phonics, Arithmetic, and Handwriting, How To Tutor Series

This book was written specifically to enable parents to teach their children the three basic primary school subjects--reading, writing and arithmetic--at home. This book provides the necessary instructional program to get started--a ready-made curriculum for the first two years. It is not necessary to have had formal teaching experience to become a good tutor. If you have enjoyed reading to children and answering their questions, then you should enjoy tutoring. With the proper instructional materials, anyone who enjoys children can become a good tutor. The Extra-Large Type Student Lesson Book (stock #74702) corresponds to "How to Tutor." The Student Book enables the student to follow the lesson being taught. This book and "How to Tutor" give you everything "Alpha-Phonics" does, and a lot more. (If you use "How to Tutor," you do NOT need to purchase "Alpha-Phonics.")

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Mrs. Silver's Phonics Workbook

Help your early readers grasp basic word sounds and words-in-sentences principles with these biblically based work sheets. Lessons include beginning and ending consonants, short vowels, digraphs, categorizing, discrimination, matching items, singulars and plurals, periods and commas, and capital letters. Excellent vocabulary study. (For maximum benefit, use with Teacher's Edition and McGuffey's Readers.) 80 pages, softcover. Teacher's Edition available below.

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Mrs. Silver's Phonics Workbook, Teacher's Edition

This preprimer helps students learn beginning and ending consonant sounds, middle short vowel sounds, and digraphs ch, sh, and th. The activities teach sounds in words and words in sentences. Basic words needed for good sentence sense are included in the lessons, or in correlation activities. Pupils should learn to spell the words taught with the short vowel sounds. Activities are presented in brief lessons in boxes labeled with letters. This format is designed to help pupils keep their places in the workbook. Also, this format is typical of achievement tests with test items in separate boxes. Other activities are included to give pupils learning experiences in categorizing, discrimination, matching items, filling in blanks, singular and plural, using periods and commas, and capital letters. All scripture references are taken from the King James Version.

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Alpha-Phonics: A Primer for Beginning Readers

Can you teach your children to read in just 10 minutes a day? Yes, with this acclaimed phonics program! Progressive lessons present each letter of the alphabet by its sound and then blend letter sounds to form basic words. More advanced exercises introduce whole sentences. Includes teacher's manual and lesson plans. Nonconsumable. Grades K to 4. 168 pages, spiralbound softcover from Paradigm.

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Plaid Phonics Word Study Level D, Student Book

Effective phonics program from Modern Curriculum Press has a proven track record in teaching phonics. Level D workbook, 176 perforated pages, two-tone graphics, seven units of study, directions stated at the top of each exercise. Grade 4.

Teacher's Edition available below.

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Plaid Phonics Level D Word Study Teacher Resource Guide

For over 40 years, Modern Curriculum Press "Plaid" Phonics has been the #1 choice of teachers for effective phonics instruction and has helped more than 50 million children learn to read. Based on confirmed research and continously revised to reflect the latest findings, MCP "Plaid" Ponics is the standard by which all other programs are measured. Now there's a validation study that further proves MCP Phonics' effectiveness in classrooms all across the country. Flexible, systematic, and proven, MCP "Plaid" Phonics is your #1 choice. The Teacher's Resource Guide: Clearly defines Objective of each lesson; Includes important reviews of previously learned skills with Maintenance Opportunity feature; Provides at-a-glance ideas for direct instruction in each Lesson Focus; Prepares the teacher for each activity with a detailed list of easy-to-find materials; Presents skill reinforcement through multisensory teaching techniques found in Follow-Up Activities; Draws on Visual, Auditory or Kinesthetic skills to develop a mastery of each new phonics skill; Suggests individual and cooperative learning ideas in small or large group situations to meet diverse student needs; Uses spelling words and sentences for encoding practice through each Spelling Integration feature; Provides Language Arts and Content Integration with suggestions and activities that will engage every student; Represents a variety of contemporary and multicultural themes in fiction and nonfiction books listed in the lesson's Book Corner; Highlights answers in color on pupil page facsimiles for quick, easy use. Table of Contents for Level D (Grade 4): Consonants; Vowels; Hard and soft C and G; Blends; Consonant Digraphs; Syllables; R-Controlled Vowels; Consonant Variants; Silent Letters; Syllables; Suffixes; Vowel Pairs; Vowel Digraphs; Diphthongs; Syllables; Plurals; Possessives; Contractions; Prefixes; Roots; Synonyms; Antonyms; Homonyms; Dictionary Skill

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Explode the Code, Book 7

Explode the Code Book 7, which is for use in the elementary grades, continues to reinforce the concepts necessary for intermediate reading. The workbook goes through a series of lessons of approximately 8 pages in length. These lessons follow a consistent format designed to reinforce phonetic patterns in a sequential manner. Within each lesson children have extensive practice in matching, reading, copying, spelling, and writing sounds and words. In this more advanced level, the tasks include reading a story and then answering comprehension questions, making words by joining syllables, and building and strengthening vocabulary through crossword puzzles.

Amusing illustrations, drawn by children, highlight the lesson exercises. The simple directions and consistent format allow students to progress independently. The workbooks provide teachers and students with an instructive and entertaining program to supplement any reading and spelling program. Book 7 primarily focuses on soft c and g; silent consonant letters; ear, ei, eigh words; digraph ph. Grades 3-4 Teacher's Key available below.

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Explode the Code, Book 8

Explode the Code Book 8, which is for use in the elementary grades, continues to reinforce the concepts necessary for intermediate reading. The workbook goes through a series of lessons of approximately 8 pages in length. These lessons follow a consistent format designed to reinforce phonetic paterns in a sequential manner. Within each lesson children have extensive practice in matching, reading, copying, spelling, and writing sounds and words. In this more advanced level, the tasks include reading a story and then answering comprehension questions, making words by joining syllables, and building and strengthening vocabulary through crossword puzzles. Black, sketchy illustrations, drawn by children, highlight the lesson exercises. The simple directions and consistent format allow students to progress independently. The workbooks provide teachers and students with an instructive and entertaining program to supplement any reading and spelling program. Book 8 primarily focuses on suffixes and endings. Grade 4 Teacher's key available below.

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Explode the Code Teacher's Key, 6-8

This is the answer key for Books 6-8.

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Beyond The Code, Book 4

This series develops important comprehension and thinking skills at the earliest level. Designed to accompany the first four books of Explode The Code, the books contain stories with exercises that follow the same phonetic structure as that series. Each story is preceded by writing and spelling activities that introduce new sight words and teach phonetic patterns. The charmingly illustrated stories are followed by questions and exercises that develop comprehension as well as critical thinking.

Book 4's engagingly illustrated stories include Nelson Went Overboard for Dogs, What a Scare!, A Different Kind of Library, A Birthday to Remember, The Treasure Hunt, and A Wild Ride. Introductory exercises teach word families and vocabulary, while follow-up questions develop students' understanding of the stories and encourage their reasoning abilities. Drawings accompany many of the new words to help students understand the vocabulary. After each story, students can complete illustrations by adding their own drawings. Grade 4.

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