 Educators who want to know more about evidence-based reading instruction topics can find accurate and current information on the over 150 sites included on these lists. While we are providing this list of relevant educational links as a service to the educational community, we do not endorse nor do we have any association with these sites. If you have an educational web site and would like
us to add your site to this list, please send us an e-mail so we
can review your content. Correspondence may be sent to: Dr. Susan
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Professor — Department of Elementary Education, Ball State
University — stancock@bsu.edu PHONICS INTERNET RESOURCES Six Phonics Myths Dispelled — Article explaining the myths associated with teaching phonics Word Maker — Activity that teaches children how to combine letters to make words Phonics Toolkit — A K-3 toolkit for teachers designed to increase their comfort levels with print awareness, phonemic awareness, phonics, and structural analysis Effective Decoding Instruction for Diverse Learners — A study group series emphasizing research-based instructional practices designed to teach the skills and understandings necessary for automatic word recognition and alignment of decoding instruction with the structure of the English language Phonics Online — Teaching modules featuring online workshop activities, sample classroom activities, and links to numerous resources related to phonics instruction Reading Games — Features reading games for sight words, auditory discrimination, contractions, capital letter recognition, etc., plus word charts and motivational posters Phonics Instruction — Article focusing on the characteristics of effective phonics instruction Edsanders.com Phonics links — A compilation of tables that addresses the basic components of teaching phonics Practice Quiz on Phonics — A list of Phonics rules with easy practice/assessment quizzes Words and Pictures — Provides online games and activities for Phonics Year 2, CVC words, consonant clusters, long vowel sounds and high frequency words Phonics Link — Provides teachers with a systematic framework for implementing phoneme awareness and phonics activities into grades K-3; supports California Content Standards Early Literacy Instruction: Research Applications in the Classroom — Teaches kids to read at home and school with articles on the basics, suggested activities, summer reading and the use of kids' books Phonics, Decoding, and Word Identification Defined Phonics and Structural Analysis — Teacher tips and assessment checklists Teaching Word Identification Skills and Strategies: A Balanced Approach — Teacher tips and assessment checklists Phonics and Whole Language Learning: A Balanced Approach to Beginning Reading — Strategies for infants, toddlers, preschoolers, and school-age children Phonics For Free — Printable tests and lessons that teach phonics Phonics and Word Study — Online games and activities for Pre-K through 6th grade Captives of the Script: Killing Us Softly with Phonics — A critical analysis from Rethinking Schools Online Whole Language and Phonics: Can They Work Together? — A language arts curriculum article Readinga-z.com — 58 sequential lessons with worksheets, flash cards, read-aloud books, decodable books, and sound-symbol books Scholastic’s Phonics Links — Lesson plans, activities, and reproducibles for teaching reading/language arts skills Teaching Phonics — Best practices for teaching phonics Read*Write*Think Phonics Lesson Plans — Printable activity sheets and lessons Phonics Worksheets — Phonics worksheets for consonants and vowel sounds teAchnology Phonics Lesson — Resources and Tools for teaching technology in the classroom ProTeacher Phonics Activities — K-8 phonics/decoding resources and activities Ten Principles in Literacy Programs That Work — From the Reading Recovery Council of North America The Role of Phonics in the Teaching of Reading — A Houghton-Mifflin position paper How to Teach Phonics through Writing Sounds and Symbols — Article from the PBS show “Launching Young Readers” Phonics — A research article iKnowthat.com — iKnowthat.com has the internet's most innovative web hosted, multimedia learning activities for children. All activities are standards based, highly interactive, and use state of the art web multimedia including animation, sound, and digitized children's voices. Over 40 major activity platforms cover hundreds of topics in preK-6 math, language arts, science, social studies, and the arts. iKnowthat.com is used by schools, teachers, consumers, parents, grandparents, home schoolers, and of course, the children that they all serve. Word
Builder — In Word Builder, children combine
sound segments to make words that Word Match —
With the Word Match game, children match letters or words to animated Word Search —
Our Word Search puzzles cover the same vocabulary set as Word Builder
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