Teaching Phonics Today: a Primer for Educators - Softcover

Strickland, Dorothy S.

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9780872071841: Teaching Phonics Today: a Primer for Educators

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0872071847 ISBN 13: 9780872071841

Publisher: International Reading Association, 1998

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Teaching Phonics Today addresses educators who seek to establish sound instructional practices that value phonics as an important tool for understanding and using written language. Strickland sets forth the issues that focus on phonics and the controversy they inevitably arouse; offers ways in which reading instruction, particularly the teaching of phonics, has changed in recent years; and provides suggestions for helping children learn to use phonics as a key component of their overall reading development. Suggestions for curriculum development and for articulating the phonics program to parents and the community also are included.

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Phonics is defined as instruction in the letter-sound relationships used in reading and writing. This sounds simple enough, yet probably no other aspect of reading instruction is more discussed, more hotly debated, and less understood than phonics and its role in learning to read. With the amount of public interest in this topic, teachers and administrators are likely to reexamine their beginning reading programs, even in districts where phonics has yet to become an issue.

"Teaching Phonics Today" speaks to educators who seek to establish sound instructional practice that values phonics as an important tool for understanding and using written language within a balanced, comprehensive program for reading and writing. This book explains what phonics is and the controversy surrounding it, shows how changes in literacy instruction have influenced the teaching of phonics, presents phonics strategies that support beginning readers and writers, and offers examples of curriculum frameworks for different elementary grade levels. The book also contains a chapter on how to articulate a phonics program to parents and the community, a chapter which also could serve as a useful resource for concerned parents.

This book will be a valuable tool for beginning teachers who are trying to make sense of the phonics controversy and for experienced teachers who are trying to make sense of the phonics controversy and for experienced teachers who need to reacquaint themselves with this form of instruction as they seek to provide effective literacy programs that are informed by the best research and practice available.

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This guide looks at the issues and controversy involved in establishing instructional practices that value phonics as a tool for understanding and using written technology. The author also makes suggestions for helping children use phonics as part of their overall reading development.

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