Ms. Angela Brandon

Phonics Activities a Thru Z: Hands-on Approach to Teach Phonemic Awareness Ms. Angela Brandon

This book provides hands-on phonics activities for pre-readers, emerging readers, and developing readers. The activities will guide students through steps towards becoming good readers. These phonics activities will develop knowledge of the alphabet and phonemic awareness. The activities will correlate with other areas of the curriculum. Letter shapes, math, sound searching, geography, art, PE (movement),cooking and tasting ideas will relate to beginning sounds of the alphabet. Ideas are given for individual, small group, or whole group instruction. These ideas should be used to introduce, supplement and reinforce phonic skills. Also included in this book are reproducible picture cards, activity sheets, patterns, and letter recognition assessment. Enjoy the hands-on phonic activities and illustrations to introduce your students to letters and sounds of the alphabet. This book was written with a wide range of skills and ability levels of early learners in mind. Learning becomes much more meaningful when hands-on activities takes place. Both parents and teachers can benefit from the variety of pages provided in this book. A parent can use this book to work with his or her child to introduce new material or to reinforce material already familiar to the child. Teachers can select pages that provide additional practice for concepts taught in the classroom. Pages in this book also make great homework assignments when tied to skills being covered in the classroom.