Sound Out!: Ready-To-Use Phonics Activities for Special Children: Ready-to-Use Phonics Activities for Special Needs Children

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Rosella Bernstein, B.S., Ohio State University, received a certificate to teach learning disabled children in the Trumbull County, Ohio, school system after taking undergraduate and graduate courses at Kent State University. She taught students with learning disabilities for 13 years from kindergarten through fifth grade and created the activities in SOUND OUT! because she could not find material to meet her students' particular instructional needs.

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This unique resource provides 60 teaching/learning units to help special needs students learn the short vowels, long vowels, irregular vowels combinations, diphthongs, and the r-controlled vowel sounds in words. These vowels sounds follow the sound association to the consonant letters.

For easy and effective use, the materials are printed in a full-page format you can photocopy directly from the book and organized into two main sections. Part 1, "Long and Short Vowels," includes 151 reproducible activity pages. Part II, "Irregular Vowel Combinations, Diphthongs and R-Controlled Vowels," includes 97 reproducible activity pages.

Each of the 60 teaching/learning units features the following components:

• a phonogram or phonograms and a list of words constructed from the phonogram to be read aloud in order to establish the letter-sound relationship
• an exercise to reinforce this skill in which the student selects the one word that makes sense in the sentence
• a trace-say and copy page with space provided for writing the words
• activities directly related to the words in that unit plus words from prior units to provide review and reinforcement. These includes: ... reading comprehension ... decoding ... encoding ... rhyming words ... learning new vocabulary words ... alphabetizing ... learning to use long and short diacritical marks ... making a word from scrambled letters ... making a compound words from two separate words ... distinguishing the spelling and meaning a homonyms ... figure-ground discrimination
• a checklist of words in alphabetical order for further practice in word recognition and a means of evaluating the student's progress

Other special helps in this resource are additional strategies for making the process of learning to read easier and more enjoyable for children ... a glossary of reading terms ... and lists of Vocabulary and Sight Words for both Parts I and II.

&b; SOUND OUT!&/b; can be used either as a stand-alone program or as a supplement to any reading program already in place. And the activities may also be used with students from the regular classroom who need extra practice in letter-sound association for vowels.