Reading Readiness

Experts are raving about this "must-have" resource for primary teachers that includes dozens of fun activities to help children listen to language and play with sounds. Activity cards can be cut out and laminated to create a handy reference file of fun ideas. A wide selection of reproducibles (picture cards, word cards, and manipulatives) is included. 128 pages.

Phonological Awareness and Beginning Phonics Program
Grades Pre K –1

The Sounds Sensible® kit offers structured, sequential, hands-on instruction to develop phonological awareness and beginning phonics skills. Its Orton-Gillingham philosophy makes Sounds Sensible®uniquely effective as part of an intervention, prevention or inclusion reading program.

Program Materials The Sounds Sensible® kit includes:

• A Teacher’s Manual providing structured lessons and direct instruction
• Blackline Masters containing games, cards, handwriting masters, Key Word Concept Sheets, Sound Contrast Sheets and Sound Tap Sheets
• Interactive games and over 800 picture-letter cards that ensure retention and make learning fun

• Listening (sound discrimination and categorization)
• Rhyming (matching, generating, categorizing, and onset and rime)
• Segmentation and deletion (sentence, syllable and phoneme)
• Letter formation (manuscript)
• Sound-symbol relationships (consonants and short vowel a)
• Dictation (phonemes and words)
• Simultaneous oral spelling

Phonemic Awareness in Young Children complements any prereading program. From simple listening games to more advanced exercises in rhyming, alliteration, and segmentation, this best-selling curriculum helps boost young learners’ preliteracy skills in just 15-20 minutes a day. Specifically targeting phonemic awareness — now known to be an important step to a child’s early reading acquisition — this research-based program helps young children learn to distinguish individual sounds that make up words and affect their meanings.

With a developmental sequence of activities that follows a school year calendar, teachers can chose from a range of activities for their preschool, kindergarten, and first-grade classrooms. Plus, the curriculum includes an easy-to-use assessment test for screening up to 15 children at a time. This assessment not only helps to objectively estimate the general skill level of the class and identify children who may need additional testing but may also be repeated every 1-2 months to monitor progress. All children benefit because the curriculum accommodates individualized learning and teaching styles.

For helping kindergartners and first graders who are having difficulty on their early literacy skills, Road to the Code is a successful, 11-week program for teaching phonemic awareness and letter sound correspondence. Developmentally sequenced, each of the 44 15-20-minute lessons features three activities — Say-It-and-Move-It, Letter Name and Sound Instruction, and Phonological Awareness Practice — that give students repeated opportunities to practice and enhance their beginning reading and spelling abilities. Road to the Code is backed by more than 10 years of study in kindergarten and first-grade classrooms.

Detailed scripted instructions and reproducible materials — such as Alphabet Picture and Sound Bingo cards — make this program easy for teachers to use. Teachers have the flexibility to work with students individually or in small groups and may adjust the amount of time it takes for a student to complete the program. With these proven phonological awareness activities, educators can confidently intervene before children have a chance to fail.

This resource will help students learn how to analyze and apply the 5 levels of phonemic awareness (rhythm and rhyme, parts of a word, sequence of sounds, separation of sounds and manipulation of sounds) in isolation before applying the levels to written language. Each easy-to-prepare activity is presented pictorially for children to follow as well as in written form. 144 pages.

Teach and practice important phonemic awareness and emergent reading skills with the help of these simple puppet patterns! Includes patterns to make paperbag puppets for each letter of the alphabet in addition to several blends and digraphs. Young children love making these creative, cute puppets and learning each letter's distinctive sound. With the use of puppets, children will be motivated to practice phonemic skills both at school and home. 48 pages.

Grades PreK-1

Make your own phonetic activities! Over 500 reproducible illustrations for initial-letter and long- and short-vowel sounds! Plus, matching word and letter cards! 96 pages.

Grades K-2

26 Delightful Songs Set to Your Favorite Tunes That Build Phonemic Awareness & Teach Each Letter of the Alphabet

Learning the ABCs is a joy with this BIG, laminated flip chart featuring an easy-to-learn song for each letter of the alphabet! Turn to this sturdy, colorful resource every day to teach phonemic awareness, letter recognition, early reading skills, and more! Includes eye - catching illustrations, ready-to-go lesson plans, instant letter activities, PLUS all 26 songs on CD. An incredible value!

26 A - Z Jumbo Letter Cards to Display on Your Wall or Bulletin Board

A is for alligator and B is for bear! Teach the shapes and sounds of each letter with this sturdy set of 26 big, bright, die-cut alphabet cards, each one featuring a different and adorable animal!

Grades Pre K-1