word recognition

Examines theories and approaches to how children learn to read and come to appreciate literature, discussing the relationship between literacy and social backgrounds, phonemic awareness, self-discovery of letter-sound relations, and related topics. Includes study and discussion questions at the close of each chapter.

Contains ready-to-use lessons and activities designed to help young readers build literacy skills by teaching them word families.

Teaches opposites, including hot and cold, fast and slow, and light and heavy.

Presents descriptions of the five stages of spelling or orthographic development, each with related word study, games, and activities, and includes an overview of how words are learned, a discussion of development, methods for assessment, and advice on organizing word study in a classroom curriculum.

Presents more than two hundred word, picture, and letter sorts designed to help students in kindergarten through third grade learn letter sounds and patterns, spelling, and word meaning.

Presents concept sorting ideas with picture sorts for the development of phonemic awareness, alphabet knowledge, letter recognition, and concepts relating to printed words, with reproducible pages, follow-up activities, and step-by-step directions.