Pinnell, Gay Su

Contains one hundred mini-lessons for teaching phonics to students in second grade, covering letter/sound relationships, spelling patterns, high frequency words, word meaning and structure, and word-solving actions, and includes a rationale for teaching phonics.

Volume one of a two volume set designed to help kindergarten teachers prepare phonics lessons for their students that includes lesson strategies, an assessment guide, games, templates, picture cards, letter/word cards, bibliographies, and teaching tips.

A combination assessment tool and guide for teaching identifies the literacy goals appropriate to grades PreK-eight and offers tools to help analyze students' strengths and identify areas needing teaching support.

Explains how to combine literacy instruction with activities that appeal to a child's natural curiosity and desire to play, and provides familiar children's songs, rhymes, poems, and related activities; theme-based text sets and book lists; inquiry projects; and thirty-five basic lesson plans.