Situating phonics instruction -- The alphabetic principle and phonics -- Phonemic awareness : a bit of a different take -- The phonics landscape -- Teaching children the sounds that letters represent -- Blending -- Word building -- Assessment -- Multisyllabic words -- Syllasearch -- Orthography : a "sticking point in word recognition" -- Automaticity -- Word building lists -- Specific phonics assessments : administration and scoring guidelines -- Words and syllable matrices for syllasearch -- The word pocket

This bestselling book provides indispensable tools and strategies for explicit, systematic phonics instruction in K-3. Teachers learn effective ways to build students' decoding skills by teaching letter-sound relationships, blending, word building, multisyllabic decoding, fluency, and more. The volume is packed with engaging classroom activities, many specific examples, and research-based explanations. It offers a complete phonics assessment and clear guidelines for sequencing instruction to give every student a strong foundation for reading. More than 30 reproducible forms and word lists are included in the appendices; the companion website features a wealth of supplemental teaching resources. -- Amazon