Cunningham, Patricia Marr

Covers a variety of instructional methods to help struggling and culturally diverse students to read.

Explains how to help third grade students become fluent readers and writers through systematic, multilevel instruction, with easy-to-follow activities that reinforce five critical fluency goals.

Shows how to teach reading to kindergarteners through sixth graders, including struggling and bilingual students, using an integrated phonics and literature-based approach. Provides example strategies and activities and covers such topics as writing, multilevel instruction, assessment, and curriculum connections.

Describes activities teachers may use to help children who are having difficulty reading and writing, with methods for learning to decode and spell regular and highly frequent irregular one-syllable words, and strategies for dealing with the special problems of poly-syllabic words.

Contains 100 hands-on lessons for teaching phonics and spelling in the first-grade classroom.

Presents a collection of fifty reproducible word lessons for the first-grade classroom that introduces common spelling patterns.

Contains 140 phonics and spelling lessons in which students in grades one through three use preselected letters to make fifteen to twenty progressively longer words, and then sort them into patterns. Includes warm-ups and guidelines for creating additional lessons.

Describes activities teachers may use to help children who are having difficulty reading and writing, with methods for learning to decode and spell regular and highly frequent irregular one-syllable words, and strategies for dealing with the special problems of poly-syllabic words.