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More About This Title Phonics Pathways: Clear Steps to Easy Reading andPerfect Spelling, 10th Edition
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This tenth edition of the best-selling book teaches reading using sounds and spelling patterns. These sounds and patterns are introduced one at a time, and slowly built into words, syllables, phrases, and sentences. Simple step-by-step directions begin every lesson. Although originally designed for K-2 emergent readers, this award-winning book is also successfully being used with adolescent and adult learners, as well as second language learners and students with learning disabilities. Wise and humorous proverbs encourage virtues such as patience, perseverance, honesty, kindness, compassion, courage, and loyalty.
- Offers help for all students including those with learning disabilities or very short attention spans
- Includes extensive examples, word lists, and practice readings that are 100% decodable
- Uses a multisensory method that benefits all learning styles
This bestselling, much-loved book offers a complete approach to teaching phonics and reading for a fraction of the cost of other programs.
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The Author
Using her materials, DOLORES G. HISKES has implemented school and community tutoring programs, such as the highly touted YES Reading Center in Palo Alto, CA. She has tutored reading for over thirty years, and trained teachers from all over the world. Well-published in professional journals and a winner of numerous honors, she publishes a free e-newsletter about teaching reading, called Phonics Talk(www.dorbooks.com).
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ABOUT THIS BOOK vii
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xii
INTRODUCTION xiii
ABOUT PHONICS PATHWAYS 1
GETTING STARTED 3
TEACHING AID: SHORT-VOWEL STICK 4
GAME: SHORT-VOWEL SHUFFLE 5
SHORT-VOWEL SOUNDS 10
GAME: Short-Vowel Review (Bingo) 16
TWO-LETTER BLENDS (Eyerobics) 17
GAME: THE TRAIN GAME 20
GAME: STARSEARCH 37
THREE-LETTER WORDS 39
GAME: BAG THE BUGS 48
PYRAMID 52
/K/ = C-, K-, -CK 53
TWO-CONSONANT ENDINGS 58
-Y SUFFIX 70
TWIN-CONSONANT ENDINGS 74
FLUENCY REALITY CHECK: Real and Nonsense Words 75
CONSONANT DIGRAPH ENDINGS: -sh, -th, -ch, -tch 76
FLUENCY REALITY CHECK: Consonant Digraph Nonsense Words 83
SIMPLE LONG-VOWEL SOUNDS 90
FLUENCY REALITY CHECK: Short- and Long-Vowel Nonsense Words 109
SUFFIXES 110
SUFFIX SPELLING CHART 115
MULTISYLLABLE WORDS 117
/k/ = -ic, -ick 118
DIVIDING MULTISYLLABLE WORDS 119
PLURAL, POSSESSIVE, AND X 121
CONSONANT DIGRAPH BEGINNINGS: sh-, ch-, wh-, th-, qu- 123
TWO-CONSONANT BEGINNINGS: bl-, fl-, pl-, cl-, gl-, sl- 133
FUN AND GAMES 138
TWO-CONSONANT BEGINNINGS : sm-, sn-, st-, sp-, sc-, sk- 139
R-MODIFIED VOWELS 149
LONG-VOWEL DIGRAPHS 159
/S/ = ce, ci, cy: /Ç/ = ei 173
VOWEL DIPHTHONGS: /oi/ = oi, oy; /ou/ = ou, ow 176
FLUENCY REALITY CHECK: /j/ = -ge, gi-, & -dge Nonsense words 184
-Y, -IE PLUS SUFFIXES 185
-F = -VES 186
NEW VOWEL SOUNDS 188
/ÔO/ = oo, oul, u; /O/ = au, aw, al, all, o 189
THREE-CONSONANT BEGINNINGS 195
SHORT-VOWEL SPELLING PATTERNS 199
/Ĕ/ = ea, a, ai; /Ĭ/ = y, ui; /Ŏ/ = a; /Ŭ/ = o, ou, oo, a 199
SCHWA 203
CONTRACTIONS 206
SILENT LETTERS: -le, k, w, l, b, t, h 208
SILENT GH: /Î/ = igh; /O/ = ough, augh; /Ô/ = ough; /ou/ = ough 213
/Â/ SPELLING PATTERNS: /Â/ = ei, eigh, ey, ea 216
S = /z/, /zh/, /sh/; /F/ = ph, gh; /K/ = ch 219
ANOTHER R-MODIFIED VOWEL SOUND 224
A SPELLING GRAB BAG 226
Homonyms, Homophones, Homographs 226
Multisyllable Words with Suffixes 228
-ce, -ge; -able, -ible 229
PREFIXES: pre-, sub-, re-, auto-, un-, dis-, inter-, super- 230
MORE SUFFIXES: -tion, -sion, -able, -ness, -ful, -less, -ment 233
COMPOUND WORDS 236
BUILDING BLOCKS 237
APPENDIX A: REFERENCE & SUPPLEMENTAL PRACTICE 243
Spelling Strategies 243
Index to Spelling Rules and Patterns 244
Spelling & Pronunciation Chart 245
Plural Spelling Chart 247
Suffix Spelling Chart 248
Student Achievement Chart 249
Student Progress Notes 250
Vision and Motor Coordination Training Exercises 251
Pyramid 253
APPENDIX B: GAMES AND ACTIVITIES 255
Hot Tips 255
The Short Sheet of Vowels 256
The Shoo-Fly Shuffle (a.k.a. Short-Vowel Shuffle) 257
The Train Game 258
Blendit! (Similar to Bingo) 260
StarSearch 261
Bag the Bugs 262
REVIEWS AND RESULTS 263
ABOUT THE AUTHOR 266
