Making Words Third Grade: 70 Hands-on Lessons for Teaching Prefixes, Suffixes, and Homophones - Couverture souple

Cunningham, Patricia; Hall, Dorothy

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0205580939 ISBN 13 : 9780205580934

Editeur : Pearson, 2008

Synopsis

An active and innovative approach to making words that teachers and their students have grown to love is finally here!

 

Based on its highly successful parent text, Phonics They Use, this new grade-level series Making Words offers teachers a fresh multi-level activity and lesson series written for the kindergarten through fifth grade classroom. Pat Cunningham and Dottie Hall  present classroom teachers with effective tools for strengthening phonics and spelling skills that encourage students to move beyond learning and into a world of word discovery. Each research-based volume includes a wealth of friendly, hands-on, manipulative activities that guide teachers in teaching the development of words--from phonemic awareness to spelling.

 

In Making Words Third Grade, Pat and Dottie introduce third grade teachers to 70 lessons that teach the homophones, spelling changes, prefixes and suffixes that most third grade curriculums cover. Each Making Words activity contains rhyming words which help children review the more complex vowel patterns. Including homophones, prefixes, suffixes, spelling changes, and complex rhyming patterns allowing third graders at all levels to make progress in their spelling and decoding ability.   

 

Making Words Third Grade is the best resource you can have on hand for motivating your students to learn words!   

• Features 70 fun and interactive lessons for building rhyming and decoding skills.
• Presents a concise method for involving students in the process of identifying homophones, prefixes, and suffixes and how these change the meanings of words in sentences.
• Promotes student awareness of similarities in words that helps develop writing skills.
• Includes reproducible letter tiles, record sheets for each lesson, and take-home sheets to copy, cut, and/or laminate.
• Highlights a list of useful children's books to extend the Making Words lesson.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Patricia M. Cunningham is a Professor of Education at Wake Forest University. She has over 30 years of experience, taught in various elementary grades and remedial reading, and was a curriculum coordinator and director of reading. Her major professional goal is promoting literacy for all children and currently engages in Four-Blocks® workshops and staff development with educators.

 

Dorothy P. Hall is a Professor of Education at Wake Forest University.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

 

Patricia M. Cunningham Dorothy P. Hall

Making Words 3^rd Grade

70 Hands-On Lessons for Teaching Prefixes, Suffixes, and Homophones

 

Based on the best selling book, Phonics They Use: Words for Reading and Writing, this grade level series offers a fresh pairing of lessons and activities for kindergarten through fifth grade. In Making Words: Third Grade, Pat and Dottie provide third grade teachers with 70 Making Words lessons that cover all of the spelling and decoding skills included in most third grade curricula. After making words in the first part of the lesson, students sort  these words for homophones, prefixes, suffixes, spelling changes, and complex rhyming patterns–allowing third graders at all levels to make progress in their spelling and decoding ability.  

 

“[Pat] covers the gamut of instruction [and] the examples are great.  I already find myself planning lessons for the coming year!”

 –Amy Martindale Kelly, third grade teacher, Gratham School, Goldsboro, NC

 

“[A] great resource…the students will benefit greatly from seeing how words are put together.  I plan to include lessons of this type in the years to come!” 

–Sonya Patrick, third grade teacher, Meadowlark Elementary School, Winston Salem, NC

 

 “[Pat and Dottie] did a wonderful job of putting these [lessons] together.  As a teacher, I was really impressed with the content of this book.” 

–Toni Harbaugh, third grade teacher, Horizon Elementary School, Jerome, ID

 

 

Patricia M. Cunningham is the author of Beyond Retelling, Classrooms That Work, Schools That Work, and Phonics They Use, all published by Allyn & Bacon, as well as a professor of education at Wake Forest University. She has over 30 years of experience in various elementary grades and with remedial reading and has served as a curriculum coordinator and director of reading. Pat promotes literacy for all children through her Four Blocks® workshops and staff development sessions with educators.

 

Dorothy P. Hall is the co-developer of the Four Blocks® framework and the director of the Four Blocks® Center at Wake Forest University. A former elementary teacher and education professor, she also presents workshops around the country on Four Blocks®, Building Blocks, guided reading strategies, and phonics instruction.

 

 

 

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Pearson
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0205580939
• ISBN 13: 9780205580934
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 80
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Pearson Benelux BV; productsafety@pearson.com; ; Kabelweg 37; Amsterdam; 1014 BA; Pays-Bas