Phonics for Teachers:Self-Instruction Methods and Activities - Softcover

For a variety of Phonics courses; a supplement to Reading Methods courses. Here is everything prospective reading teachers need to know in order to introduce phonics to elementary school children in a way that's interesting and effective. Coverage is focused on decoding, the lynchpin skill in literacy development. Part I addresses the relationship between phonics and literacy, and provides a six-chapter tutorial that will test the reader's own level of skill. In Part Two, dozens of classroom activities are arranged in the order in which research has shown phonics knowledge to be acquired. The result is a concise handbook that shows future teachers how to teach phonics while, at the same time, "filling in the gaps" in their personal knowledge of the subject.

J. Lloyd Eldredge is a professor in the College of Education at the Brigham Young University, where he teaches both graduate and undergraduate literacy courses. Dr. Eldredge is a former elementary school teacher, school principal, and school superintendent. He has also served as the Utah Director of Chapter I, the Utah Director of Early Childhood Education, and the Utah Director of Elementary Education. During the past 18 years his research has been focused on phonemic awareness, phonics, a reconceptualization of decoding instruction in the early years of schooling, whole language, oral reading, and the effects of various forms of "assisted reading" strategies (dyad reading, group assisted reading, and taped assisted reading) on young and "at risk" readers. His work is published in such journals as Journal of Educational Research, Reading Research and Instruction, Journal of Reading, The Reading Teacher, Journal of Literacy Research, and Reading Research Quarterly. He is the author of two books on phonics and decoding: Decoding Strategies and Teaching Decoding in Holistic Classrooms.