Easy Lessons for Teaching Word Families: Hands-on Lessons That Build Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, Spelling, Reading, and Writing Skills

This book gives you step-by-step instructions for ready-to-teach Making Words lessons!This terrific book has been around since December of 1998, and I had my copy on order for several months before it was published. I've used it extensively in my first grade classes, and loaned it to every teacher who was even remotely interested in having some pre-made Making Words lessons for their Working With Words block. This year I'm teaching a straight kindergarten class, and none of my kinderkids are quite ready for these formal lessons yet, but I expect that my top readers will be ready for these activities before Winter vacation. This is a must-have for your professional bookshelf.

This is a completely usable resource. I use it to help teach my 1st grade students word patterns each and every week. The lessons are provided in a clear and teacher-friendly manner. I especially enjoy the tie-in with nursery rhymes. This tool should be in every first grade class.

I found this book extremely helpful for young children in my resouce program. It was especially easy to use with learning disabled children who need a hands on or kinesthetic approach to reading. It can be used with a variety of reading programs including LiPS, Project Read, or Corrective Reading. It can also stand alone in your reading program.

This book provides direct, sequential steps of a lesson plan for teaching phonemic awareness and word patterns, not only for emergent readers,but for those children in need of building word awareness and language skills. I use it constantly in a multi-age classroom of 5,6, and 7 year olds. It is a terrific book to use that works well with a variey of levels. If you have the book or use the book MAKING WORDS by Patricia Cunningham, you will definitely want to get this one.

Judy Lynch has provided teachers with easy, useful lessons for teaching word study to emergent readers and writers. The format is easy to follow and the lessons utilize high frequency rimes and onsets. It is the perfect complement to Patricia Cunningham's book, Making Words. Lynch's book can be used with students the first week of school. The compelling, must-have aspect of this book is the blackline masters for the word study mats at the back of the book, the large and small reproducible letters for individual word study sets and the 31 pages of nursery rhymes which reinforce use of the rimes studied in the word study lessons. Appendix A gives simple but superb suggestions for implementing the nursery rhymes. This is a must-have for any teacher involved in a Balanced Literacy classroom! Thanks, Judy.