Phonics from A to Z: a practical guide

SECTION 1 : What Is Phonics? - Phonics: What and Why - Ten Important Research Findings About Phonics - History of Phonics Instruction in the U.S. - Stages of Reading Development: Where Phonics Fits In

- SECTION 2 : Opening the Gate for Reading Instruction: Alphabet Recognition and Phonemic Awareness - Powerful Predictors of Success - Alphabet Recognition: What It Is and Why It's Essential - Teaching Alphabet Recognition - Quick and Easy Activities for Developing Alphabet Recognition - Phonemic Awareness: Playing With Sounds - Phonemic Awareness: Current Issues and Understandings - Articulation - Sound Walls - Why Phonemic Awareness Is Important - How to Assess Phonemic Awareness - Phonemic Awareness and Writing - Teaching Phonemic Awareness - Using Literature to Develop Phonemic Awareness - Quick and Easy Activities for Developing Phonemic Awareness

- SECTION 3 :Learning About Sounds and Letters - Teachers and Linguistics - The Sounds of English - Consonants - Vowels - The 44 Sounds of English: Word Lists for Instruction

- SECTION 4 : Creating Lessons for Success - How Phonics Is Taught - The Stages of Decoding - Characteristics of Strong Phonics Instruction - About Scope and Sequence - Meeting Rigorous Standards - What Does a Good Phonics Lesson Look Like? - Phonics Lesson Dos - Phonics Lesson Don'ts - Memory Devices: Choosing the Best - Blending: Teaching Children How Words Work - Controlled Text: What Is It? - Making Your Decodable Text Instruction More Impactful - Decodable Text

-Does It Really Matter? - Word-Awareness Activities - High-Frequency Words - High-Frequency Words in English - Selecting Words for Instruction - Irregular High-Frequency Words - Decodable High-Frequency Words - Developing Fluency With the Top 100 High-Frequency Words - Assessment

Sample Lessons - Consonants - Consonant Digraphs - Consonant Clusters - Silent Letters - Short Vowels - Long Vowels - Other Vowel Sounds - Phonograms - Phonograms Provide Early Reading Boosts - Teaching With Phonograms - Phonogram Cautions - How to Use Phonogram Lists

Phonogram Word Lists -Variant Vowels /ar/, /ur/, and /ar/ Phonograms - Variant Vowels /o/ and /o/ With r Phonograms - Diphthongs /oi/ and /ou/ Phonograms - Variant Vowels /oo/ and /oo/ Phonograms - What About Rules? - Guidelines for Using Rules/Generalizations - Utility of Phonics Generalizations - Structural Analysis: Using Word Parts - Compound Words - Prefixes - Suffixes - Homophones - Syllabication - Transitioning to Multisyllabic Words: The Issue - 322 Most Common Syllables in the 5,000 Most Frequent English Words - Top 322 Syllable Instructional Routine - 35 Quick and Easy Phonics and Word Analysis Games - Workbooks - 500 Picture Words - Assessments

- SECTION 5 : Meeting Individual Needs - Types of Readers - How to Help: Effective Intervention Strategies - 10 Techniques That Support Intervention Instruction - Removing Reading Roadblocks

-Principles of Intervention Instruction - 14 Phonics Problems-and Solutions - Differentiating Phonics Instruction - Fluency - Six Ways to Develop Fluency - Fluency: The Next Generation - Phonics and the Multilingual Learner: Guiding Principles - Standard English Learners - African American English Phonics Differences - Chicano/a English Phonics Differences - Professional Development - How to Access Downloadable Resources.