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Index
Title
Introduction
About This Book
Conventions Used in This Book
What You’re Not to Read
Foolish Assumptions
How This Book Is Organized
Icons Used in This Book
Where to Go from Here
Part I : Getting Ready to Read with Phonics
Chapter 1: Pondering the Power of Phonics
Taking the First Steps toward Using Phonics
Getting Your Child (And You) into the Swing of Things
Getting an Overview of the Phonics Fundamentals
Ramping Up to Exciting Books and Readers
Boosting Skills with Fun Activities
Chapter 2: Setting Up Your Teaching Aids and Techniques
Getting Phonics in a Flash with Flashcards
Charting for Phonics Success
Picking Up Phonics with Word Strips
Engaging the Senses with Phonics
Managing Phonics Progress
Part II : Exploring the Fundamentals of Phonics
Chapter 3: Starting with Simple Consonants and a Vowel
Digging Into Blending
Going Deeper with Consonants and Keywords
Next Stop: c, k, ck, and l
Chapter 4: Finishing Short Vowels and Seeing Patterns
Exploring the Short i Sound
Understanding the Difference between a and i
Making the Acquaintance of Short u
Summing Up Short a, i, and u
Getting Acquainted with Short o
Introducing Short e
Recognizing Consonant-Vowel-Consonant (CVC) Patterns
Chapter 5: Joining Consonants Together to Make More Sounds
Delving into Digraphs (Two Letters, One Sound)
Blending Endings
Beginning Blendings
Examining Some Blending Quirks
Dealing With Vowels at the Start of Words
Chapter 6: Pursuing Plurals and Compound Words
Exploring Plurals in Speech and Spelling
The Letter s Counts for a Lot
Adding es Is an Easy Thing to Do
Decoding Multisyllable Words
Compiling Compound Words
Chapter 7: Making Long-Vowel Sounds
Understanding the Long, the Short, and the Silent
Looking at Vowel Digraphs
Taking On More Challenging Vowel Digraphs
Turning w and y into Vowels
Ending Words with Long Vowels
Chapter 8: Presenting Diverse Vowel Sounds of a, o, and u
Saying ä before u, w, r, ll, and lt
Studying the Third Sounds of o and u
Chapter 9: Delving into Diphthongs and Shortcuts
Introducing Diphthongs: When Vowel Sound Meets Vowel Sound
Sounding Out ou/ow and oi/oy
Exploring Murmur Diphthongs
Discovering How Vowel Sounds Change in Contractions
Part III : Moving Beyond the Phonics Basics
Chapter 10: Stepping Through the Pronunciation Process
Unlocking the Sounds of Words
Understanding y in Syllables
Accessing Opened and Closed Syllables
Chapter 11: Finding Happy Endings with Suffixes
Exploring the ed Suffix
Taking on Suffix Spelling Challenges
Chapter 12: The Dual Personalities of s, c, and g
Sounding s As z in Words
Tuning into Nice c Sounds
Gauging the Sounds of g
Chapter 13: Tapping into Unusual Spellings
Introducing Vowel Digraphs
Exploring the Vowel Digraph ie
Looking Farther Into the oo’s
Moving Up with Some Great ea Digraphs
Cueing You to another View of u
Weighing In On ei
Dealing with the Troublesome Letters ou
Grouping the Difficult y
Exploring Some Miscellaneous Homophones
Chapter 14: Digging Deeper into Prefixes and Suffixes
Understanding Roots
Profiling Prefixes and Suffixes
Part IV : Tackling the Trickier Side of Phonics
Chapter 15: Schwinging with Schwa: Finding the Quick uh Sound
Introducing Your Child to the Schwa
Exploring the Schwa-Syllable Connection
Getting Acquainted with Schwa Words
Delving into Some Harder Schwa Words
Chapter 16: Explaining English Exceptions
Dealing with Silent Letters
Discovering Exceptions to Standard Murmur Diphthongs
When Joined Vowels Aren’t Digraphs
Exceptions to Long-Vowel Guidelines
Words in Which Every o Is a Short u
Arresting the Outlaw Words
Discovering Special Consonant Digraphs
Exploring Words with the French and Greek ch Sounds
Examining Six sh-Sound Spelling Patterns
Rounding Up the ch Sounds
Chapter 17: Zeroing In on x and zh
Differentiating the x Sounds
zh: A Consonant Sound with No Distinct Spelling
Part V : The Part of Tens
Chapter 18: Ten Challenging Activities for Reinforcement
Word Scramble
Froggy Phonics Learning Game
“Sounds Great!” Phonics Song
Take
Mix and Match
Packing My Suitcase
Journaling
Kinesthetic Activities
Tried-and-True Games
Book Making
Chapter 19: Ten (Well, Not Just Ten) Recommended Supplemental Resources
Brookes Publishing Company
Educators Publishing Service
Homeschool World
Huntington Learning Center
Intelli-Tunes
Ladybug Phonetic Readers
Langsford Learning Center
The Moore Foundation
Scottish Rite Learning Centers
Starfall
More Wonderful Web Sites!
Appendix A: Phonics Guidelines and Definitions
Consonant Guidelines
Vowel Guidelines
Guidelines for Syllabication
Phonics Terminology
A Mini-Glossary
Appendix B: Recommended Books for Your Kid’s Library
Appendix C: Keyword Cards You Can Use
Appendix D: On the CD
: Further Reading
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