A Fresh Look at Phonics, Grades K-2 Common Causes of Failure and 7 Ingredients for Success

by Wiley Blevins

Picture a class of kindergarteners singing the alphabet song, and teaching phonics seems as easy as one-two, three, A, B, C, right? In Fresh Look at Phonics, Wiley Blevins explains why it can get tricky and then delivers a plan so well-suited for success that teachers, coaches, and administrators will come to see owning this book as a before-and-after moment in their professional lives.

Wiley uses data he has collected over two decades to show which approaches truly work, which have failed, and how teachers can fine-tune their daily instruction for success.

You will learn to focus on the seven critical ingredients of phonics teaching that produce the greatest student learning gains— readiness skills, scope and sequence, blending, dictation, word awareness, high frequency words, and reading connected texts. Then, for each ingredient, Wiley shares:

• Activities, routines, word lists, and lessons that develop solid foundations for reading
• Ideas for differentiation, ELL, and advanced learners to ensure adequate progress for all learners
• Help on decodable texts, what not to over-do, and what you can’t do enough of for your students’ achievement
• Interactive “Day Clinic” activities that facilitate teacher self-reflection and school wide professional learning

Product details:

Grade Level: K-2

ISBN: 9781506326887

Published By: Corwin

Series: Corwin Literacy

Year: 2016

Page Count: 304

Publication date: July 07, 2016

Wiley Blevins, Ed.D., studied at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and Bowling Green State University. He is an author, educational consultant, and researcher, and has taught both in the United States and South America. Wiley has written over 17 books for teachers, including A Fresh Look at Phonics, Phonics From A to Z, Differentiating Phonics Instruction for Maximum Impact, and Choosing and Using Decodable Texts. He has authored several phonics and reading programs and wrote the phonics brief by the International Literacy Association (Meeting the Challenges of Early Literacy Phonics Instruction). Wiley's current focus is on adaptive technology, differentiated professional development, and children's literature. Wiley has written over 100 children's books and is SVP and Associate Publisher at Reycraft Books, a new imprint focused on publishing books by authors and illustrators from under-represented groups.

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