Reading First: Focus on Phonics

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Basic Phonics Skills from Evan-Moor. This series, new in 2004, meets the need for supplemental phonics practice. It provides a full range of reproducible phonics practice worksheets. In addition, each book features at least 20 reproducible "Little Phonics Readers" that have stories utilizing the phonetic elements taught in that particular book. The books in this series are correlated to state standards. There is also a series of phonics centers that go with this series to add extra interest and give additional practice of the phonics skills presented in each of the Basic Phonics Skills Books. Each book is $26.99-D

Basic Phonics Skills Level A by Tanya Dean, Jo Ellen Moore, and Jill Norris. For grades Pre-K - K. Teaches print awareness, phonemic awareness, alphabetic awareness, and sound-symbol association. Contains 26 reproducible Little Alphabet Readers. 288 pages. BTH-689. $26.99-D

Basic Phonics Skills Level B. For grades K-1. Teaches beginning and ending consonants, short vowels, plural and inflectional endings, and word families. 288 pages. BTH-690. $26.99-D

Basic Phonics Skills Level C by Linda Armstrong, Jo Ellen Moore, and Joy Evans. For grades 1-2. Teaches long and short vowels, sounds of c and g, consonant digraphs, R-controlled vowels, sounds of y, consonant blends, and 20 reproducible Little Phonics Readers. 288 pages. BTH-691. $26.99-D

Basic Phonics Skills Level D For grades 2-3 Teaches variant consonant sounds, silent letters, digraphs and diphthongs, prefixes and suffixes, plural and inflectional endings and word families. 288 pages. BTH-692 . $26.99-D

Clear and Simple Let's Sound Out Words by Nancy Jolson Leber and Liane B. Onish. Grosset and Dunlap, 2006. Books in this series feature a simple, but appealing design; repetitive, patterned activities; clear directions to help your child work independently; and bonus flash cards to reinforce early reading skills. In this book your child will circle and match pictures with the same beginning sounds, begin to recognize the number of syllables in a word, and practice rhyming words. The book includes 32 flashcards on card stock and a poster to color. For Grade 1. 64 pages. BTH-3426. $4.49-D

Core Skills Phonics by Steck-Vaughn, new in 2007. Books in this series help children to become successful and confident readers. Its skill specific practice pages link phonics with spelling, reading, and writing so that students may build their skills through integrated activities. The series covers the national Reading Panel guidelines for phonics, phonemic awareness, and comprehension. Books are available for grades K, 1,2,3,and 4. $8.99-D each.

Core Skills Phonics Grade K, Steck-Vaughn, 2008. This book covers readiness skills, consonants, and short vowels. 128 pages. BTH-3764. $8.99-D

Core Skills Phonics Grade 1, Steck-Vaughn, 2008. This book covers letter recognition, consonants, short vowels, and long vowels. 128 pages. BTH-3770. $8.99-D

Core Skills Phonics Grade 2, Steck-Vaughn, 2008. This book covers consonants, vowels, consonant blends, and consonant digraphs. 128 pages. BTH-3765. $8.99-D

Core Skills Phonics Grade 3, Steck-Vaughn, 2008. This book covers consonants; short and long vowels; consonant blends and digraphs, syllables, and silent consonants; r-controlled vowels, y as a vowel, schwa, vowel digraphs, and diphthongs. 128 pages. BTH-3766. $8.99-D

Core Skills Phonics Grade 4, Steck-Vaughn, 2008. This book covers consonants; short and long vowels; consonants; r-controlled vowels, vowel digraphs, and diphthongs. 128 pages. BTH-3767. $8.99-D

Dr. Maggie's Phonics Resource Guide: A Comprehensive Program for Teaching Essential Skills by Dr. Margaret Allen. A publication of Creative Teaching Press. This valuable companion to Dr. Maggie's Phonics Readers contains detailed lesson plans for each of Dr. Maggie's 24 books. There is also a collection of reproducible pages to reduce planning and preparation time. There are phonics activities that involve students in three different ways of learning: visual, auditory, and kinesthetic. Children have the opportunity to learn through "total body response" activities such as chanting, singing, physical movement, and active games.

The lesson plan for each book in the series has four sections:
    Ready prepares young learners with multimodal learning experiences.
   Read makes reading the reward for learning.
    Review improves comprehension.
    Reinforce ensures skill retention. BTH-624. $17.09-D

Dr. Maggie's Home School Package contains all 24 of Dr. Maggie's Phonics Readers and the resource guide above. Available by special order. It usually takes me about seven business days to get it in. CTP-2952. $80.81-D

Dr. Maggie's Classroom Phonics Kit is designed for small group instruction. It comes in a durable storage box filled with the following valuable teaching tools: 144 student readers (a 6-pack each of all 24 readers); Dr Maggie's Phonics Resource Guide; 24 charts featuring rhythmic chants that coordinate with the readers; over 200 reproducible word cards to encourage automatic recognition of words; and 24 divider tabs to keep the books organized. Available by special order. It usually takes about seven business days for me to get it. CTP-2926. $450.00-D

Dr. Maggie's Phonics Games: 22 Reproducible Games for Playful Phonics Practice by Dr. Margaret Allen. Includes board games, card games, spinner games, and dice games that will help children practice fundamental phonics skills and have fun doing it. Each game focuses on a particular group of sounds. 48 pages. CTP-2954. $7.99*

Dr. Maggie's Make and Take Activity Books: 24 Mini-Books for Take-Home Phonics Fun by Dr. Margaret Allen. These mini-books require minimal preparation. Students can take the reproducible pages home to assemble and complete with the help of their families. The books contain engaging activities such as words hunts, cloze stories, crosswords and other phonics activities. 48 pages. CTP-2955. $7.99*

Explode the Code by Nancy Hall with Rena Price. Published by Educator's Publishing Service. For Grades K-4.

Fabulous Phonics Little Books: 30 Reproducible Little Books for Practicing Phonics by Christine E. McCormick. Now you can economically provide individual books for your students that not only encourage them to read, but help them practice phonics. This resource includes 30 eight-page reproducible little books that provide first-grade level phonics practice. Skills emphasized include consonants and short vowels, digraphs, initial and final consonant blends, long vowels, and vowels with r. Contains 136 pages in all. Cat. # Rig-73396. $13.46-D

Fearless Phonics: A Phonics Handbook with Rules and Super Word Lists! by Linda Schwartz. The Learning Works. This book, with limited reproduction rights, answers the questions most teachers and parents have about the rules of phonics, such as when a c is soft or hard, when an o is long or short, or how consonant blends work. Not only are the explanations simple, but there are also lots of examples.

The first two sections of the book, "Conquering Consonants" and "Vowel Victories," show how to decode most words by associating sound with spelling. These two sections contain generalizations followed by rules and samples.

The last two sections contain helpful lists, including basic sight words, rhyming word families, and common prefixes, suffixes and roots with definitions and sample words. There is also help for dividing words into syllables and accenting syllables.

Bold graphics add eye appeal. This book is ideal for all ages, since the graphics are based on letters, and there are no childish pictures to hurt the self-esteem of older children and adults. BTH-626. $11.69-D

Flipping Over Making Words Series. Teacher Created Resources, 2007. These are great for teaching emergent readers how to make words just by flipping pages in a flip book! Each Flip book is accompanied by a word list and several activity ideas for teachers and a variety of reproducible student handouts. Books are available for grades K-3.

Flipping Over Making Words Grade K by Jessica M. Dubin Kissel. Topics in this book include short vowels, vowel switching, long vowels, and word patterns. 176 pages. BTH-4142. $16.19-D
    Flipping Over Making Words Grade 1 by Jessica M. Dubin Kissel. Topics in this book include short and long vowels, letter blends, double vowels, R-controlled words, digraphs, silent letters, and common endings. 176 pages. BTH-4143. $16.19-D
    Flipping Over Making Words Grade 2 by Jessica M. Dubin Kissel. Topics in this book include short and long vowels, letter blends, prefixes, suffixes, silent letters, disappearing letters, and double letters. 176 pages. BTH-4144. $16.19-D

Flipping Over Making Words Grade 3 by Jessica M. Dubin Kissel. Topics in this book include Silent letters, letter blends, digraphs, irregular word endings, compound words, contractions, common suffixes, and sight words. 176 pages. BTH-4145. $16.19-D

Fun Phonograms: Learning How Words Work by Trisha Callella. Creative Teaching Press, 2000. This book will help teachers show students how to use 37 phonograms to read and spell over 500 common primary words. The ideas in this book will help you create a customized program to introduce a different phonogram each week. Stories, poems, puzzles, and other activities will encourage your students to identify the week's new phonogram and to use it to create new words. Reproducible phonogram cards and phonogram word lists make preparation easy. 96 pages. BTH-2501. $12.59-D

My Phonics Dictionary, for grades 1-3. Provides commonly used word lists with spaces for students to add their own words for each phonetic list. Lists are provided for short and long vowel words, blends, digraphs, and other essential phonics classifications. 28 pages. Handy composition book size. BTH-3000. $1.99-B

Phonics by Kim Thompson and Ken Carder. ©2005. This colorful resource book, with the help of the accompanying CD, teaches beginning consonant sounds, short and long vowel sounds, digraphs and consonant blends, rhyming words, silent e, 80 sight words, and pre-reading skills. This resource includes a music CD with original music from Twin Sisters, over 60 colorful worksheets and learning activities, ten emergent reader mini-books to make, color, and read, and 80 beginning sight word flashcards on hard card stock for long wear. For ages 5-8. A great value for a 96-page book and CD with 19 songs. BTH-1602. $11.66-D

Phonics, for ages 4-7. Pre-readers can get ready for reading by listening to and singing along with this award-winning, best selling CD set. Children learn the initial consonant sounds and long and short vowel sounds through repetition and rhythm. In the review section, children say the letter after being prompted. In the Vowel Song, children learn short vowels and meet fun characters such as the Cat on the Mat, the Pig with the Wig, and the Fox on a Box. This is great for independent listening or as a supplement to any phonics curriculum. They learn their long vowels to fifties boppin' music. All long and short vowels, including "y, "are taught. Running time : 28:21.

Activity Book included has 24 pages, including coloring pages which encourage children to form new words. Music /CD Book Set: BTH-2796-CD. $12.59-D

Advanced Phonics CD-Book Set. This sequel to the Phonics set teaches Blends, digraphs, diphthongs, rhyming words, compound words, homonyms, synonyms, and antonyms. Learning phonics becomes a fun, finger-snapping, toe-tapping experience with musical explanations of the above skills and concepts. The 24-page activity book includes coloring pages which encourage children to learn new words and activity pages to reinforce what is on the CD. This set will work in the home or in the classroom. Lyrics for the songs are included . For ages 5-9. BTH-2797. $12.59-D

Phonics, a three book reproducible series for grades K-2, by Steck-Vaughn. Your children will enjoy these activities and exercises designed to review and reinforce decoding skills. The graphics lend a playful note to the structured activities. Frequent reviews help to maintain student skills. Bound-in answer key. 128 perforated pages.

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Grade K	Stresses readiness skills, consonants, and vowels. 14 exercises. 26 full-color sturdy flashcards. BTH-1363. $12.59-D
Grade 1	Stresses letter recognition, consonants, and short and long vowels. 96 exercises, 26 full-color sturdy flashcards. BTH-1364. $12.59-D
Grade 2	Stresses consonants, short and long vowels, consonant blends, and consonant digraphs. Over 100 exercises. BTH-1365. 12.59-D

Phonics and Word Study for Struggling Readers: Comprehensive Practice for Differentiated Instruction, Evan-Moor, 2008. This book has a scaffolded presentation of basic phonics and word study skills in the context of of 24 fiction and nonfiction stories for grades 4-6+. There is an overview of each broad section of skills for teacher use that explains the targeted skills and suggests age-appropriate ways to introduce them to the students. There are also 24 pretests written in standard test format to help with assessment. At the back of the book are lists of sight words compiled from the lists of Dolch and Dr. Fry. These appear in 16 reproducible lists that you can give students to study and master. There is space on each to track progress and record speed.

Student practice pages for each skill have a consistent format from lesson to lesson.

    Learn It! has a rle box explaining the targeted skills, words to decode aloud, and targeted skills practice.
    Practice It! has words to decode aloud and a fun word game.
    Review It! has a cloze activity that reviews targeted skills and presents words in a meaningful context.
    Read it! contains an illustrated story that provides the opportunity to read the words with the targeted skills in context.
    Apply It! contains questions on phonics or word study, comprehension and critical thinking questions, and oral reading for fluency.

There is also a reproducible poster of decoding strategies for distribution to students. Student pages may be reproduced for classroom use. 287 pages, including answers. BTH-4543. $22.49-D

Phonics Readers by Steck-Vaughn. These come in sets of 10 different books with a teacher's guide.

Phonics Readers Set 1 Short Vowels. This set contains ten different phonics readers based on short vowels -- five fiction and five reality-based stories. The books are 8 inches square and 8 pages each. A teacher guide is included. BTH-1967. $26.14

Phonics Readers Set 2: Long Vowels. This set contains ten different phonics readers based on long vowels -- five fiction and five reality-based stories. The books are 8 inches square and eight pages each. A teacher guide is included. BTH-1968. $26.14

Phonics Readers Set 3: Blend Books. This set contains ten different phonics readers based on long vowels -- five fiction and five reality-based stories. The books are 8 inches square. and eight pages each. A teacher guide is included. BTH-1969. $26.14

Phonics Readers Set 4: Digraph Books. This set contains ten different phonics readers based on long vowels -- five fiction and five reality-based stories. The books are 8 inches square. and eight pages each. A teacher guide is included. BTH-1970. $26.14

Phonics Word Sorts Series by Jeanne Baca Schulte. Teacher Created Resources, 2005. Word sorts help students see relationships between words, sounds, and spelling patterns. These full-color, ready-to-use activities can be used by individuals, small groups, and even a whole class. Each book has 176 full-color pages. Some of these are wall charts, and some are related pages of words to sort. These three books are available:

Phonics Word Sorts Grades K-1. The sort categories in this book are Beginning sounds (single onsets); ending sounds; difficult consonant discrimination; short vowels; long vowels; short and long vowel discrimination; beginning blends; and beginning consonant digraphs. BTH-1181. $17.99-D

Phonics Word Sorts Grades 1-2. The sort categories in this book are beginning / ending digraphs; blends; r-controlled words; same spelling / different sounds; same spelling / different spelling; and difficult endings. BTH-1182.. $17.9-D.

Phonics Word Sorts Grades 2-3. The sort categories in this book are endings with multiple syllables; silent letters; same spelling / different sounds; same sound / different spelling. BTH-1183. $17.99-D

Sounds, Words, and Phonics + Meanings. Steck-Vaughn. This reproducible series is designed to provide research-based activities to help meet the goals of the National Reading Panel by teaching phonics not in isolation, but integrated with phonemic awareness, vocabulary, comprehension, and fluency. Skills are presented in a systematic order and provide explicit instruction. The book begins with assessments on vowels and consonant blends. Each unit contains phonemic awareness activities for the key phonics skill. Each phonics skill is supported with a small booklet that children can make and read. The phonics skill is also reinforced with vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension development activities. Besides the lessons, there is a planning chart at the beginning of each unit followed by a two-page teacher information spread. Each book is $13.46-D. Details for each book are below.

Phonics +Sounds, Words, and Phonics + Meanings Grade K by Diane Jasinski. Begins with a phonemic awareness interview and a unit planner. Contains four units, each with several reproducible lessons. The unit titles are Readiness, Letter Recognition, Consonants, and Short Vowels. Each unit includes a reproducible little storybook that reinforces the skills that were taught in that unit. Blackline masters include Grid, Racetrack Game Board, Finger Puppets, Step-Page Book, and Writer's Dictionary. 160 pages with answers. BTH-580. $13.46-D.

Phonics +Sounds, Words, and Phonics + Meanings Grade 1 by Margaret Fetty, editor. Begins with assessments on consonants and vowels. Contains six units, each with several reproducible lessons. The unit titles are Alphabet Review; Consonants m, d.f.g and Short Vowel a; Consonants b, t,.s.w and Short Vowel o; Consonants k,j,p,n and Short Vowel i; Consonants c,h,l,r, and Short Vowel u; Consonants v,y,z,q,x, and Short Vowel e; Long vowels a,o, i, u, e and y; Blends and Digraphs. Each unit includes a reproducible little storybook that reinforces the skills that were taught in that unit. Blackline masters at the end include Word Slide, Word Wheel, Flip Book, Grid, and Writer's Dictionary. 160 pages with answers. BTH-581. $13.46-D.

Phonics +Sounds, Words, and Phonics + Meanings Grade 2 by Margaret Fetty, editor. The book begins with assessments on vowels and consonant blends. Contains seven units, each with several reproducible lessons. The unit titles are Consonants; Short Vowels; Long Vowels; Consonant Blends; Consonant Digraphs; r-Controlled Vowels and y as a Vowel; and Vowel Digraphs and Diphthongs; Each unit includes a reproducible little storybook that reinforces the skills that were taught in that unit. Blackline masters at the end include Word Wheel, Step Book, Flip Book, Grid, Graph, and Writer's Dictionary. 160 pages with answers. BTH-582. $13.46-D.

Phonics + Handbook by Beatrice G. Davis. This versatile resource is designed to provide a systematic and explicit instructional program for grades 3-6. Student pages are reproducible. For teachers it has tips for getting started, a definition of phonics, how to teach phonics elements, a chart of word analysis skills, reproducible record sheets for individuals and groups, reproducible student handout on ways to decode a word, and a reproducible 4-page overall assessment. There are seven units, the first five of which begin with an assessment test. Here are the unit details:

Unit 1: Consonants. Begins with an assessment test. Contains several reference lists, lots of practice activities , and a page of extension activities at the end.

Unit 2: Vowels. Begins with an assessment test. Contains several reference lists, lots of practice activities , and a page of extension activities at the end.

Unit 3: Structural Analysis. Begins with an assessment test. Contains several reference lists, lots of practice activities, and a page of extension activities at the end.

Unit 4: Affixes. Begins with an assessment test. Contains several reference lists, lots of practice activities, and a page of extension activities at the end.

Unit 5: Syllables. Begins with an assessment test. Contains several reference lists, lots of practice activities, and a page of extension activities at the end.

Unit 6: Reading Comprehension. Each practice activity has a story using words of a specific type (e.g. words with long and short vowels, words with plurals and contractions, etc.) followed by some comprehension questions. There are 11 stories in all.

Unit 7: Dictionary Skills. Begins with a dictionary page diagram handout. Contains several reference lists and practice activities.

Phonics Fundamentals, Vol 1: Letter Sounds to Short Vowel Words. An Evan-Moor publication for grades K-1.
BTH-863. $14.99-D

Phonics Fundamentals, Vol 2: Short and Long Vowel Words and Stories. An Evan-Moor publication for grades 1-3.
BTH-864. $14.99-D

Phonics Handbook for Grades 3-6, by Steck Vaughn. This book is designed for children in the middle grades who may have missed basic phonics and structural analysis in their primary years. This is a quick, all-in-one resource and reference guide with activity pages for both phonics and structural analysis skills. It provides solid, non-insulting practice to older students who need remediation.

This great new series from Edupress builds literacy by reinforcing phonics skills with writing activities. There are two types of books in this series:

The reproducible activity pages can be used to introduce or review specific phonics skills, including recognition of short and long vowels sounds, r-controlled vowels, diphthongs, and vowel and consonant pairs or digraphs. The repetitive lesson format makes these books ideal for independent learning or homework assignments. Phonetically regular word banks can be used as a resource for creating your own classroom or home word wall. Books are designed for grades 1-2. 48 pages each. Order by title and number. $7.19-D each book.

Reading Games Grades K-1 by by Bridget Hoffman and Julie R. Mauer. Teacher Created Resources, 2006. This book provides colorful, ready-to-use games to encourage young children to practice important reading concepts while developing social skills. Twelve simple games are based on objectives and standards for these specific reading skills: short vowel sounds, long vowel sounds, and rhyming sounds. For grades K-1 176 pages. BTH-3902. $19.79-D

Right into Reading Program : A Phonics-Based Reading and Comprehension Program
by Jane Ervin. Published by Educators Publishing Service

This series teaches phonics to either beginning readers or older children who have difficulty learning to read. It combines two important kinds of instruction. First, it provides a solid foundation in basic phonics, presented in a carefully ordered sequence of "bite-sized" lessons that will not discourage young students. It also contains a wide selection of reading selections that appeal to diverse interests: adventures, folk tales, history, science fiction, biographies, and animals studies. Reading formats include a map, a menu, an ad, a newspaper article and a recipe. But they only contain the phonics sounds that have been taught.

The reading selections are a bit longer than those in many other programs (The longest in Book One are about two - three pages long.) Comprehension and critical thinking skills are integrated into the entire program. Students will need to become involved, question, and search for answers. They will learn to see cause and effect, come to logical conclusions, and understand figures of speech. They will also develop new vocabulary and the ability to understand and use words in many contexts. Students also will have the opportunity to practice writing after every reading selection.

Book 2 covers consonant teams (sh, ch, th, and wh), vowels with r and y , and irregular double vowels.

Success Stories Series by Butcher and Simonetti, by Educator's Publishing Service. Each book contains 60 high-interest, phonetically structured stories focusing on an individual grapheme or syllable pattern. For grades 1-4.

Cat. #	Title	Price

EPS-1701	Teacher's Manual for Book 1 (48 pages)	6.75*

EPS-1703	Teacher's Manual for Book 2 (48 pages)	6.75*

Take It to Your Seat Phonics Centers from Evan-Moor. These books contain everything you need to make 12 to 14 centers that correlate to the books in the Basic Phonics Skills Series.. Students will also be able to practice their literacy skills. The centers, which are stored in folders or plastic envelopes, work equally well with individuals or small groups. They are portable and self-checking. For each center there is a cover, student directions, and student task cards -- all in full color. There is also a reproducible student activity sheet. Each book has 192 pages. See details below:

Phonics Centers A for grade PreK-K by Jo Ellen Moore and Jill Norris. Helps students develop skills in phonemic awareness and phonics. BTH-752. $17.99-D

Phonics Centers B for grades K-1 by Jo Ellen Moore and Jill Norris. Helps students develop skills in comprehension and phonics. Center titles include Pair Them Up Puzzles (visual discrimination); Rhymes Go Round; Ant Families (word families); Cookie Sort (word families); Bunch of Balloons (word families); All Aboard the ABC Train (matching upper- and lowercase letters), and more. BTH-754. $17.99-D

Phonics Centers C for grades 1-2 by Jo Ellen Moore and Jill Norris. Helps students develop skills in comprehension and phonics. BTH-755. $17.99-D

Phonics Centers D for grades 2-3 by Jo Ellen Moore and Jill Norris. Helps students develop skills in comprehension and phonics. Phonics topics include variant sounds, diphthongs and digraphs, silent letters, word families, plurals, inflectional endings, prefixes and suffixes, syllable words, and more.BTH-756 $17.99-D

Upper Grade Phonics: A Discovery Approach to Investigating Language Patterns by Joyce A Cockson, Sarah M. Fornara, Jan Martin, and Norm Sneller. Creative Teaching Press, 2000. This resource focuses on upper grade students (grades 4-6), and lets them play detective to discover the mysteries of language. The book includes lists of language patterns, mini-lessons, follow-up activities, and many teacher resources. The language mysteries to be solved include decoding (reading), encoding (spelling), and Word-Solving (comprehension and vocabulary). There are also a number of word games and activities to make learning more fun. 96 pages. BTH-2504

The Writing Road to Reading by Romalda Spaulding . Fifth Revised Edition, 2003. Trade Paper, oversize. This teaches the Spaulding Method of Phonics for teaching speech, writing, and reading. It is intended for teachers, parents, and those learning English as a second language. Contains the extended Ayres word list of over 2,300 high-frequency words organized in three different ways: by order of instruction, alphabetized, and by parts of speech. Also contains a list of 70 phonograms to be taught and the rules of spelling, pronunciation, and language. A list of children's literature recommendations by grade level is also included. 471 pages. #HC-0520108. $20.66-D

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