About This Book

Learning to read is a complex process involving many interrelated skills. Supporting current state standards, Reading for Every Child: Phonics is designed to help you introduce students to the world of print.

Students will discover that books and magazines can satisfy their curiosity or transport them to lands filled with imagination and adventure. They will learn that books have covers, titles, and authors. As they sit by an older reader and study the page, they will notice that letters make words and words combine to build sentences.

While completing reproducible worksheets, kindergarteners will have opportunities to practice tracking text from left to right and from top to bottom. They will learn to recognize the letters in their own name and the letters of the alphabet in upper case and lower case forms.

The first part of the book focuses on print awareness, while the latter half explores beginning and ending consonants and short vowels. Through oral and written activities, students will have opportunities to engage in language exploration through poetry, rhymes, and chants. This playful repetition will increase your students’ fluency and sight-word recognition.

Reading for Every Child: Phonics provides you with a flexible set of tools for your classroom. The skills assessment, letter cards, worksheets, and activities included here may be used in many ways. Feel free to skip around or modify them to meet your students’ needs.

Family involvement is also crucial to literacy development. Communicate your lessons and goals to students’ families for continuity in learning. Encourage family members to read to and with their children on a regular basis. Cross-age interaction can be as beneficial to an older student as it is for the kindergartener.

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