Bridge the gap between phonemic awareness and beginning phonics! Pre-readers and beginning readers practice letter and phoneme recognition by cutting out word or picture cards and sorting them according to each lesson's focus. Activities require very little reading ability.

Bridge the gap between phonemic awareness and beginning phonics! Pre-readers and beginning readers practice letter and phoneme recognition by cutting out word or picture cards and sorting them according to each lesson's focus. Activities require very little reading ability.

This easy-to-use book contains a wide variety of language arts assessments to help teachers of reading. The results of these assessments can determine what should be taught, measure progress, and suggest areas that might be causing difficulty in learning to read. Book jacket.

The 155 Sorts in this book provide word study practice for students in large group, small group, individual, and learning center settings. They offer a multi-sensory experience in which students manipulate and categorize words by specific features or sound parts: initial and final consonants, short and long vowel patterns, high frequency phonograms, vowel digraphs and diphthongs, common blends and endings, and "sound-alikes" such as gn and kn. There are also some fun word meaning sorts such as "has wheels" and "does not have wheels." Instructions are provided for presenting open, closed, speed, "blind," and writing sorts. Blank word sort masters are also included so you and your students can design your own sorting activities.

"The most common words for teaching reading, writing, and spelling."--Page 4 of cover.