Phonics and Word Study for the Teacher of Reading: Programmed for Self-Instruction, 11th edition

• Teachers are able to progress through the book and successfully learn the content, thanks to the carefully designed learning sequence, combined with ample repetition and review that guide teachers to correct responses.
• Readers get the background they need to understand local and national standards for phonological and phonemic awareness, phonics, and morphemes in order to make informed decisions about teaching and student learning.
• Instructors conserve instructional time in information-dense teacher education courses through the book’s use of instructional frames, repetition of information, and reviews and assessments that make it possible for students to use the book independently.
  • The unique format of the book features learning frames that call for teachers to respond in writing and provide immediate feedback on responses, allowing readers to use the book independently, with a minimum of demands or direct instruction in teacher education courses.
• Teachers can gauge learning, monitor their own progress, and reinforce learning through a variety of assessments in the book:
  • Short assessments, called Reviews, are interspersed throughout.
  • Four cumulative reviews, called Recaps, appear at the end of large sections.
  • A Review of phonemes covers the consonants and vowels.
  • A pretest and a posttest provide feedback as readers begin and end the self-instruction program.
  • Thirteen study guides interspersed throughout the text summarize information and serve as convenient learning and study tools.
  • An Appendix with all the information studied serves as a resource while using the text and for preparing for teacher certification examinations.

The new Eleventh Edition helps teachers make the connections between what they are teaching and the Foundational Skills strand of the Common Core State Standards; explains how children demonstrate awareness of words, syllables, rhymes, and individual phonemes; provides a variety of outstanding opportunities for assessment and self-checking; and updates the research on phonemic awareness and phonics.

• Teachers see how to apply the Foundational Skills strand of the Common Core State Standards to the content of the book:
• The book explains how phonological and phonemic awareness, phonics, syllable patterns, and meaningful parts in words apply to the Standards.
• The information in this new revision is connected with grade-specific learning expectations described in the Foundational Skills strand.
• Applicable Standards are interwoven throughout the book and appear where the information on each standard is addressed.
• How children demonstrate awareness of words, syllables, rhymes, and individual phonemes—phonological and phonemic awareness—is developed and connected to the related learning expectations set out in the Standards.
• Readers see how to use the book as a learning tool and self-study guide. Included are:
• Cross-referencing of answers to the pretest and posttest with the pages in the book where the information is addressed.
• Explanation of how to read the book, including explicit instructions on how to read and respond to the instructional frames in order to maximize learning.
• Teachers see what research says about teaching phonics, get up to date on the current knowledge regarding the teaching of phonemic awareness and phonics, and see how to apply the research to their work in the classroom.
• Readers get a logical and manageable focus on the study of consonants in the book’s reorganized section on consonants, now divided into two smaller parts.