Young children's knowledge of letter names and sounds is the best predictor of their reading and spelling progress in school-but studies show that many children still struggle with alphabet knowledge at the end of first grade. Now there's a fun and affordable way to answer the call for effective alphabet instruction, without changing your whole curriculum or investing in expensive teaching materials and training. Developed by renowned reading expert Marilyn Jager Adams, this playful, highly engaging curriculum supplement is a must for teachers of preschool through kindergarten, as well as primary grade teachers of students who still need help with alphabetic basics. You'll get 56 activity-based lessons that help children recognize and write each letter in both upper- and lowercase forms and know the primary sound each letter represents.

This activity book seeks to help students develop a greater awareness of the relationships among phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics. Primarily for classroom teachers of students grades 3 through 8, this book features activities, jokes, and riddles to increase students' metaphonological and phonological awareness, as well as enhance their thinking skills and mental associations. "Sound Effects: Activities for Developing Phonological Awareness" is a research based activity book used to increase metaphonological and phonological awareness for students. Its goal is to improve students' comprehension, strengthen understanding, and enhance divergent skills and vocabulary. This book is targeted for classroom teachers of students from grades 3 through 12, but is most appropriate for upper elementary through middle school grades. With clearly written objectives and instructions, it is a great resource for special education teachers, general education teachers, and speech pathologists. "Sound Effects" aims to enhance students' thinking skills and mental associations through demonstrating the relationships among phonology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics. The activities, jokes, and riddles that are featured throughout the book help enhance skills that are needed to manipulate and demonstrate understanding of the sound system of the English language. It can be used with the entire group or in one-on-one sessions. Activities can be done in any order and educators are provided with answer keys. It is appropriate to use with ELLS, students with learning disabilities, struggling readers, and typical students.