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Synopsis
A Sound Approach presents a logically sequenced method for teaching reading and spelling using phonemic awareness. The book is based on real classroom experiences, a synthesis of contemporary research, and teacher feedback. This resource provides the knowledge and skills you need to effectively assess and teach crucial reading skills to your beginning and struggling readers. The authors offer: a variety of simple, effective activities that appeal to visual, auditory, and kinesthetic learners engaging, easy-to-follow lesson plans appropriate for whole-class, small-group, or individual instruction that easily fit into a readers-workshop or literacy-centre approach enlightening research-to-practice sidebars that respond to common questions and concerns reproducible assessments, sound cards and word cards, short-vowel cue cards, pictures pages, words-and-pictures pages, story starters, and riddles
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About the Authors
Heather Kenny, M.Ed., is a former classroom teacher who has worked intensively with both beginning and struggling readers. She has co-authored literacy curriculum, served as adviser to the Ontario Ministry of Education, and acted as a teacher-trainer and professional development facilitator. For the past decade, she has been extensively involved in the professional development of teachers, facilitating in-service sessions for practicing teachers across North America, and speaking at national and regional literacy conferences. Heather is currently a full-time doctoral student at the University of Toledo, focusing on literacy development.
Laura Robbins has over 25 years of teaching experience with a master’s degree, specializing in early literacy. She has been active in the professional development of teachers, having served as an adjunct professor for York University in Toronto, as a professional learning community facilitator at the school and board levels, and as a literacy coach. Together with Heather A. Kenny, she wrote Phonics in Action: A Balanced Early-Literacy Program, published in 1999, and a balanced literacy curriculum for Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board. Heather and Laura offer literacy seminars and workshops for educators across North America.
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- PublisherPortage & Main Press
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 1553791452
- ISBN 13 9781553791454
- BindingSpiral-bound
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages272
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