Self-Paced Phonics: A Text for Educators - Softcover

Dow, Roger; Baer, G.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0132883678 ISBN 13: 9780132883672

Publisher: Pearson, 2012

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Self-Paced Phonics: A Text for Educators, Fifth Edition, is the ideal resource for pre-service and in-service teachers to get practical instruction that helps them develop a sound understanding of both the content and pedagogy of phonics. More than a tutorial in phonics, this self-regulating, self-monitoring resource covers both the content and pedagogy of phonics. Designed for use with a minimum of instruction, at the reader’s own pace, the book is particularly teacher-friendly and immediately applicable to Web-based instructional models.

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Self-Paced Phonics Self-Paced Phonics: A Text for Educators, Fifth Edition, is the ideal resource for pre-service and in-service teachers to get practical instruction that helps them develop a sound understanding of both the content and pedagogy of phonics. More than a tutorial in phonics, this self-regulating, self-monitoring resource covers both the content and pedagogy of phonics. Designed for use with a minimum ... Full description

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Here’s practical guidance for developing a sound understanding of both the content and pedagogy of phonics. Pre-service and in-service teachers alike can turn to this self-regulating, self-monitoring resource to make phonics more easily understood and useable in the classroom with a minimum of instruction, at their own pace. Self-Paced Phonics: A Text for Educators, Fifth Edition, is particularly teacher-friendly and immediately applicable to Web-based instructional models. This new edition pays particular attention to the unique needs of multicultural and multilingual children. It includes more examples illustrating particular phonics elements and expands significantly the practices and cumulative reviews, providing more opportunities for students to work with both the content and pedagogy of phonics.

 

· Readers get meaningful, manageable units of learning and immediate feedback for better understanding of the principles and pedagogy of phonics through chapter practices, cumulative reviews, pretests, and post-tests.

 

· Educators can complete the book with a minimum of direct instruction, at their own pace.

 

· Practicing teachers get to see phonics instruction in context and are better able to understand both the content and pedagogy of phonics.

 

· Readers get opportunities for further exploration of phonics and related topics through an Additional Web-Based Resources section that points readers to a number of helpful websites.

 

· Teachers get sound advice on dealing effectively with the challenges of teaching phonics in today’s diverse, multilingual classrooms.

 

· Educators get up-to-date information on the changes in Federal policy initiatives related to No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top.

 

About this edition

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0132883678
• ISBN 13: 9780132883672
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 168