A practical guide for teachers to link phonemic awareness (hearing sounds in words) with phonics (the visual details of print).

Hands-On Word Family Activities for Young Readers is a handy resource that offers you easy-to-use material for guiding children (K-3) in real reading experiences by teaching them word families. While using this book, you will be able to give your students the opportunity to learn and practice the essential phonological skills of onset and rhyme as they read an enticing story or poem. This book offers you a wide variety of engaging methods for teaching word families including art projects, poems, big books, and little take-home books. As you progress through the book's lessons, your students will learn to write the word families fluently and to manipulate magnetic letters and words. In addition, Hands-On Word Family Activities for Young Readers contains easy-to-follow lessons for each word family, helps to build self-esteem, and increases independence as students gain confidence while learning to master the contents. The book's materials are organized into 25 word-family chapters and printed in 8 ½" X 11" format that lies flat for easy photocopying. Hands-On Word Family Activities for Young Readers offers you and your students a classroom tested reading program created by two reading educators dynamic "real" reading experiences step-by-step lessons that are similarly formatted for each word family a wealth of activities that involve art projects, poems, big books, little books¾plus magnetic letters, flashcards, and other word family activities blackline masters for the book's engaging poems, art projects, and word-family books a variety of lessons that can be used with an entire class, small groups, or individuals a surefire way to engage parents to become involved with their children's learning detailed lesson plans and teacher directions Hands-On Word Family Activities for Young Readers will help teachers guide young learners to master word families and ensure a good start to their reading success.

From the authors who created the One Word movement, impacting schools, businesses, and sports teams around the world, comes a charming fable that can be read and shared by everyone. If you could choose only one word to help you have your best year ever, what would it be? Love? Fun? Believe? Brave? It’s prob­ably different for everyone. How you find your word is just as important as the word itself. And once you know your word, what do you do with it? In One Word for Kids, bestselling author Jon Gordon—along with coauthors Dan Britton and Jimmy Page—asks these questions to children and adults of all ages, teaching an important life lesson in the process. This engaging, fully illustrated fable follows Stevie, a young boy falling asleep on the first day of school. His teacher gives the class an assignment: to find the one word that will help them have their best year ever. To discover their one word, they must look inside themselves, look up, and look out. At home, Stevie is upset be­cause he can’t find his word. After his dad offers some helpful advice, Stevie excitedly begins the quest for his word. His search helps him discover a lot about himself, what he loves, and what is important to him. An easy read with a powerful message, One Word for Kids appeals to readers of all ages and is an ideal entry point into discussing a valuable lesson in a fun and engaging way.

Kids will have fun filling up these adorable "word family trees" with words containing more than 50 must-know phonograms. Each reproducible activity page provides repeated practice in building words containing a target word family. Research shows that recognizing and using phonograms helps children develop phonemic awareness of rhyming words and improves decoding, spelling, and writing skills. Gives kids repeated practice with more than 50 different word families Kids practice reading and writing hundreds and hundreds of words Fun and engaging format is a surefire motivator Perfect for in-class use or homework!

Encourage reading fluency with activities that emphasize word families. Each unit is composed of three parts: Part 1 introduces students to word families; Part 2 challenges their knowledge of word families through independent work; and Part 3 reviews the lessons to ensure students are able to read, write, and identify the word families.

32 easy-to-make manipulative wheels that help kids master key phonograms and become successful readers.

Provides activities for learning word families.

Games So Fun Kids Won’t Realize They’re Learning Teaching kids to read has never been easier, thanks to these 60 incredible hands-on activities. Help your child master their ABCs, practice spelling three-, four- and even five-letter words and write their very own sentences, all while they draw with crayons, sculpt with playdough and build with building blocks! Heather McAvan has spent over a decade teaching children to read—both in the classroom, at home and online—and is an absolute genius at creating reading and writing games that are quick to set up, easy to follow and above all, an adventure for kids. This book is perfect for children in any stage of their reading journey, whether they’ve had some practice or are just beginning. Activities start with the basics and work up from there so kids can gradually build upon each new skill. And with Heather’s lessons incorporating the toys, games and art projects children love, they’ll spend the afternoon playing, nearly forgetting they’re learning one of life’s most important skills. Help your child practice letter sounds with fun Bubble Wrap! Pop a few bubbles and see if they can pronounce the letters underneath. Graduate to spelling games and compete head-to-head in a round of word dominoes. Hone their reading skills with a game of Twister! Get the whole family involved and laugh the day away as you challenge each other to read out the words on each dot. With activities that are hands-on and engaging, children will have a blast while learning a life-long skill.

Set the stage for reading success with 20 reproducible activity packs that teach the top 120 word families. Created by a reading specialist!