Using Interactive Writing to Strengthen Your Students' Phonemic Awareness and Phonics Skills, K-1

*Includes a comprehensive video training resource guide

Viewers will observe a highly effective strategy for teaching elements of basic literacy within a context of meaningful print. Interactive writing blends the strengths of language experience, shared writing and direct instruction to develop foundational literacy skills.

Viewers learn how to:

• plan interactive writing lessons to promote optimum engagement, authenticity, and learning
• focus attention on critical literacy skills...phonemic awareness, phonics, and concepts of print
• maintain a correct model while encouraging student participation and promoting student learning
• keep all students in the group actively and constructively involved all the time
• promote the positive transfer of target skills into students' independent writing and reading

Using the "Making Words Strategy" to Strengthen Your Students' Phonemic Awareness and Phonics Skills, Grades K-2

*Includes a comprehensive video training resource guide

This outstanding program demonstrates how to use the "Making Words" strategy to improve students' reading and writing skills. Actual lesson segments provide modeling and practical tips for reinforcing letter-sound relationships and increasing student awareness of letter patterns within words.

Viewers learn how to:

• successfully prepare and lead "Making Words" lessons
• effectively cue and coach students who are experiencing difficulty
• maximize student learning and positive transfer into independent reading and writing by focusing on letter and sound patterns
• incorporate new approaches to word formation, sorting, reading, and writing in each lesson
• keep students actively and enthusiastically involved in all phases of the lesson
• implement "Scrambled Words," an innovative strategy appropriate for emergent readers and writers

Using Onsets and Rimes and Manipulation of Text to Strengthen Your Students' Phonemic Awareness and Phonics Skills, Grades 1-2

*Includes a comprehensive video training resource guide

Text manipulation and a focus on common rimes (word families) strengthen students' phonics skills -- reinforcing letter-sound relationships and vowel-consonant patterns -- and enhance students' phonemic awareness. Viewers discover how this set of proven teaching strategies enables learners to independently approach new words in their reading and writing with a higher degree of decoding and spelling accuracy.

Viewers learn how to:

• effectively use matching, scrambling, and substituting activities with print to strengthen students' phonics skills
• boost students' independence in reading and spelling by reinforcing rimes as key phonetic patterns
• prompt students in ways that encourage concentration and self-correction
• create a special word wall based on rime patterns...a classroom literacy reference students will really use
• put cutting-edge brain research to work in classroom reading and writing programs