Making Sense of Phonics

1. What Is the Forecast for Phonics Instruction in the United States?

2. The Alphabetic Principle and Phonics

3. Phonemic Awareness

4. The Phonics Landscape

5. Teaching Children the Sounds That Letters Represent

6. Blending

7. Word Building: Overview and Procedures

8. Word Building: Grouping

9. Assessment

10. Multisyllabic Words

11. Syllasearch

12. Orthography: A “Sticking Point in Word Recognition”

13. Fluency

Epilogue

Appendix 1.Word Building Lists

Appendix 2. Specific Phonics Assessments: Administration and Scoring Guidelines

Appendix 3. The Word Pocket

Appendix 4. Words and Syllable Matrices for Syllasearch

Appendix 5. List of Online Teaching Resources

Glossary

References

Index