Pro-ed Sounds Abound: Storybook Activities by Sandy LaChance - 31157

Pro-ed Sounds Abound: Storybook Activities

Ages: 4-7
Grades: PreK-2

Link phonological awareness skills to children's literature and comprehension. Use the rich vocabulary from favorite children's books to improve word, syllable, and sound awareness.

The activities are suitable for whole class instruction, small groups, and individuals; preschoolers though early elementary grades; and regular and special education classrooms. There are a variety of questions at each level of learning so you can easily address individual needs in a group.

The easy-to-follow format uses the same skill sequence in each book-unit. The story content and vocabulary words are integrated into an exhaustive compilation of practice activities. Students progress to awareness of increasingly smaller units of speech:

Word Awareness
Syllable Awareness
clapping syllables
blending syllables
deleting syllables
reversing syllables
Rhyming
recognize rhymes
discriminate rhymes
generate rhymes
Sound Awareness
initial sound play
identify and generate words beginning with the given sound
blend monosyllable words
blend sounds to make a word
match initial sounds
identify initial and final sounds of words
substitute initial and final sounds
segment sounds
delete initial and final sounds
delete sounds in blends

The lessons are based on storybooks that you supply. There are 43 book-units. Several of the books have content related to curricular topics. Some of the titles are (see the Table of Contents for a complete list):

A Pocket for Corduroy
If You Give a Moose a Muffin
Pumpkin Pumpkin
Strega Nona
The Snowy Day
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Tikki Tikki Tembo

233 pages • 8.5 x 11, softcover • ©2002