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An active and innovative approach to making words that teachers and their students have grown to love is finally here!

Based on its highly successful parent text, Phonics They Use, this new grade-level series Making Words offers teachers a fresh multi-level activity and lesson series written for the kindergarten through fifth grade classroom. Pat Cunningham and Dottie Hall present classroom teachers with effective tools for strengthening phonics and spelling skills that encourage students to move beyond learning and into a world of word discovery. Each research-based volume includes a wealth of friendly, hands-on, manipulative activities that guide teachers in teaching the development of words--from phonemic awareness to spelling.

In Making Words Second Grade, Pat and Dottie introduce second grade teachers to 100 lessons that teach all the phonics, spelling, and phonemic awareness skills included in most second grade curricula. Each Making Words activity leads children through a systematic and sequential phonics curriculum. All lessons include practice with the phonemic awareness skills of segmenting and blending as children stretch out words they are making and blend the letters to make new words. Because teaching children letter-sound relationships is easier than teaching children to actually use these letter-sound relationships, all lessons include a transfer step in which children apply the sounds they are learning to spelling new words. 

Making Words Second Grade is the best resource you can have on hand for motivating your students to learn words!  

• Features 100 fun and interactive lessons for building phonemic awareness, phonics, and spelling skills.
• Presents a concise method for involving students in the process of identifying phonological units and patterns within words.
• Promotes student awareness of similarities in words that helps develop writing skills.
• Includes reproducible letter tiles, record sheets for each lesson, and take-home sheets to copy, cut, and/or laminate.
• Highlights a list of useful children's books to extend the Making Words lesson.

Customer Reviews (3)

Great Resource
This is an great supplemental resource for teachers of second grade.I have used parts of it before, but now I have Pat Cunningham's work in one easy place for quick reference.

Right on track for my classroom!
I have bought grade 1,2, and 3 to help facilitate the differentiating of instruction. The children love when we make words.Everyone is able to work at an appropriate level.

Great Product
As a primary grade teacher I must say I really enjoyed this product for my own children. ... Read more

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ISBN #0021855625Picture of three cards on front cover saying "pig" "sock" and "cat" ... Read more

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(Grades K-2). A complete handbook full of strategies and activities to foster phonemic awareness for early reading success. This book includes literature, nursery rhymes, songs and drama activites! Reproducible. 208 pages. ... Read more

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Great Book for Poetry, Phonics
This book can be used for creating a poetry collection for first graders learning sounds.I was very impressed with it when I saw it and will probably use it more and more each year. ... Read more

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Phonemic awareness, alphabet, phonics, structural analysis, sight words, and context clues are all addressed in this balanced approach to successful reading. Various activities help emergent readers develop decoding and comprehension skills. ... Read more

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Best Seller. The book is divided into four skill areas: rhyming sounds, blending sounds, matching sounds, and segmenting sounds. Each skill is explained in detail, activities are provided, and 100 reproducible picture cards are also included. ... Read more

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This Phonemic Awareness and Phonics Interactive CD contains fun and engaging hands-on activities for use with interactive whiteboards or a computer. Designed to help students recognize the sounds that form familiar words, each activity concentrates on phonemes, the building blocks of language, and lets students practice matching those phonemes to illustrations of recognizable words. Students can manipulate objects as they experiment and simultaneously hear the sounds for those objects. As students see the relationships between the sounds that make up words, they form a better understanding of the spoken language, which leads to better reading comprehension. Activities focus on beginning sounds, rhyming, blending, and letter recognition. This CD pack includes a Resource CD with activities and a 16-page Teacher's Guide. ... Read more

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Phonemic awareness is the first step in any child'sjourney to literacy, and more than 25% of all children don't master itby third grade. Specifically targeting phonemic awareness, thisprogram helps young children learn to distinguish the individualsounds that make up words and affect their meanings. With the uniquescreening method that accommodates up to 15 children at a time,educators can gauge the general skill level of the class and identifychildren who may need additional testing. And teachers can choose froma range of activities to use with the whole class-from simplelistening games to more advanced sound manipulation exercises such asrhyming, alliteration, and segmentation.

It has everything teachers need:

teaching objectives
lesson plans and sample scripts
activity adaptations
troubleshooting guidelines
suggested kindergarten and first-grade schedules
an appendix of advanced language games
informal, large group screening tests
guidelines for interpreting screening test results
recommendations for further assessment

The perfect complement to any school's language curriculum, thisprogram takes only 15-20 minutes a day. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (12)

not worth it
I just bought this book and don't recommend it, it has very simple activities with very little explanation about them, this kind of activities you can easily think of them even my grandma has better ideas that the ones that come on this book I feeldisappointed about this book I had to give a star to this book even it does not deserve it.

A must have!
I purchased this book on the recommendation of an Orton-Gillingham class I took.It has been a great resource for the beginning readers I tutor.The activities are fun and take very little prep for the teacher.I recommend this book for anyone looking to boost phonemic awareness, a critical skill for reading!

Great Resource
As a parent I needed something to assist my child and found this book to be great.

It is setup for class room setting but with a little improvision here and there works great.

Ready to use lessons
The lesson plans are all right there to get started teaching phonemic awareness in a classroom or small group. Sections are divided up intospecific skills. The research included in the book makes it easy to explain to parents why these are improtant skills to teach.Includes a material list and assessments as well.A "must have" for pre-kindergarten through first grade teachers.

phonemic awareness
bought this for my daughter-in-law for her speech pathology degree. It was suggested by her instructors.
It came in a timely manner, no complaints ... Read more

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Dozens of reproducible picture cards that children can sort by beginning sounds, rhyming words, number of syllables, and number of phonemes. ... Read more

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Picture Sorting for Phonemic Awareness
This is a great companion to other curriculum. The pictures are simple and easy for children to identify. The students enjoyed finding words that "went together" it was a great way to introduce and reinforce word family knowledge.

Great
This is a great book for teaching children beginning sounds and as they move on into phoneme segmenting.

Highly Effective and Fun Workbook for Developing Phonemic Awareness
As a special education classroom teacher and tutor specializing in reading, I am extremely impressed with the effectiveness of "Picture Sorting for Phonemic Awareness". Being able to recognize and make rhymes is key to developing phonemic awareness, the foundation for reading words, and "Picture Sorting for Phonemic Awareness" provides children with visually enticing and engaging rhyming activities.
The book is well organized and accessible to parents as well as to teachers and tutors. It provides a clear explanation on how to assess a child's proficiency at rhyming and how to do the activities. Also impressive are the suggestions on how to alter and expand the activities to make them more challenging as children make gains.
While there are many rhyming workbooks on the market, I have found "Picture Sorting for Phonemic Awareness" to be one of the most effective I have used in my 15 years of working with new and struggling readers. The children enjoy the activities and the improvements they make are impressive. I highly recommend this book.

So helpful
I think this is so helpful for kids about to learnto read. Extremelyuser-friendly. Provides kids with hands-on practice in recognizing and comparing sounds to get them ready to read.

Leber--Picture sorting for Phonemic Awareness
I think this is a wonderful book for parents and early childhood teachers looking for a fun way to help pre-readers learn how to read. The book is easy-to-use.The Table of Contents is very clear. Each skill section follows the same format--Recognizing, Assessment, Reproducible Picture Cards. Parents are shown how to assess their child's ability to recognize rhymes and initial and ending sounds and count syllables and phonemes. The black-and-white reproducible drawings are of easily recognizable pictures. As the children color the pictures, parents can encourage their children to say aloud the names of the pictures and listen to the sounds. Parents are given instructions on how to teach their children the relationship between sounds and letters, the crucial first step towards learning how to read. The book also includes picture-sorting games and activities, and a word list. I highly recommend this book.


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108 cards, approx. 2.75” x 3.5” each, including images for 22 blends and4 digraphs, as well as a resource guide with word lists and phonicsactivities. Activities include beginning blend or phoneme matching,segmenting phonemes, phoneme deletion and addition, plus sorting bydigraphs. Supports NCTE and NAEYC standards.

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The purpose of reading frist is to admitted although there are not easy solutions for optimizing reading achiecvement, there is an expensive base that shows us the skills children mus learn in order to read well. These five critical areas of explicit instruction are: Phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and text comprehension. ... Read more

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Research shows that using key picture and word associations to teach the alphabet helps children establish strong letter-sound relationships and build phonemic awareness—critical skills in becoming proficient readers and writers. Help students develop these skills using this book of 26 target letter lessons. Each lesson features a poem, corresponding easy art project, and letter-writing practice. Also includes warm-up and extension activities, literature links, and more! For use with Grades PreK–1. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (4)

great activity book
My kids and I love this book.I bought it for my 4 year old but my six year old likes it too.What I like about this book is that not only does my son get letter recognition, but he also gets practice with his fine motor skills such as cutting,gluing,coloring, and writing.It also encourages shape recognition. I love this book!

seller cancelled item
The seller cancelled the item I ordered because they found to not be in the condition they stated on the web.I was gratful that they were so honest.

Preschool Teacher
This book is great for preschoolers who love to have fun and they don't even realize they are learning!! - I wish I found this workbook sooner - Highly recommend

Cut, Paste & Write ABC
Loved it!Just what I was looking for to add more to my lessons. ... Read more