Cunningham
Making Words

Based off it's 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. The authors provide 100 fresh hands-on lessons for phonics, spelling, and phonemic awareness encourage students to move beyond learning and into a world of word discovery. Filled with a wealth of activities, teachers will find it a cinch to integrate the reproducible resources directly into their reading progam with little effort. KEY TOPICS: Presents step-by-step instructions for developing letter-sound relationships. Each activity guides teachers in teaching young students how to blend letter sounds together to make a word; then segment or take off a letter and change the beginning letter(s) to make new words with the same spelling pattern or word family. MARKET Written for first grade teachers.