Introduction -- Read-aloud books for developing phonemic awareness : an annotated bibliography / Hallie Kay Yopp -- The bag game : an activity to heighten phonemic awareness / Nancy K. Lewkowicz -- The use of word analogy instruction with developing readers / Kelly Ann HuffBenkoski, Scott C. Greenwood -- The letterbox lesson : a hands-on approach for teaching decoding / Bruce A. Murray, Theresa Lesniak -- The most common phonograms / Edward Fry -- The flashcard strikes back / Tom Nicholson -- Footprints on the classroom wall / Mary Gorman -- Sentencing : the psycholinguistic guessing game / Ann K. Hall -- Monitoring spelling development / Christopher C. Hayward -- Spelling for readers and writers / Jill E. Scott -- An essential vocabulary : an update / Anita P. Davis, Thomas R. McDaniel -- Word Storm : connecting vocabulary to the student's database / Ronald M. Klemp -- Anticipating antipasto in Antarctica? / Jeannine Perry Rajewski -- Fun with vocabulary / Janet Towell -- A scaffolding technique to develop sentence sense and vocabulary / Evelyn T. Cudd, Leslie L. Roberts -- C(2)QU : modeling context use in the classroom / Camille L.Z. Blachowicz -- What's literacy? / Melissa Kotrla -- Appendix A: The role of phonics in reading instruction : a position statement of the International Reading Association -- Appendix B: Phonemic awareness and the teaching of reading : a position statement from the Board of Directors of the International Reading Association -- Appendix C: Using multiple methods of beginning reading instruction : a position statement of the International Reading Association.
Summary
Contains reprints of seventeen articles drawn primarily from the Teaching Reading department of "The Reading Teacher" journal published between 1993 and 1999 in which the authors share classroom-tested strategies for helping students learn about words.