Hands-On Word Family Activities for Young Readers: Ready-to-Use Lessons and Activities for Building Literacy Skills - Softcover

Brown, Roberta Seckler; Carey, Susan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0787965928 ISBN 13: 9780787965921

Publisher: Jossey-Bass, 2003

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

Roberta Seckler Brown and Susan Carey are certified Reading Recovery teachers who are currently teaching a collaborative first grade class for the Ossining Public School District in Ossining, New York. They are the coauthors of Hands-On Alphabet Activities for Young Children.

About this edition

• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0787965928
• ISBN 13: 9780787965921
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 352