Preface ix

Self-Evaluation I: A Pretest 1

General Knowledge and Terminology 9

Events That Shaped English Spelling 9

What Does the Research Say about Teaching Phonics? 10

Basic Elements of Phonics 12

Box 1.1: Green Glass or Green Grass? Two English Phonemes

Box 1.2: An Allophone Experiment 16

Graphophonic, Syntactic, and Semantic Cues 21

Box 1.3: Spanish Phonemes 22

Review 1 24

References 25

Introduction 27

Review 2 30

Single-Letter Consonants 31

m, q, r, v 33

Box 2.1: How Would a Duck Quack without Q? 35

Review 3 36

b, h, k, t, P 36

Study Guide: Consonants b, h, k, t, m, p, q, r, v 41

Review 4 42

d, f, j, n, z 43

Box 2.2: Why Z Comes Last 48

Study Guide: Consonants d, f, j, n, z; Digraphs dg, gh, ph; Suffix -cd

Review 5 50

C, g, W, Y 51

Box 2.3: Why Not Kfor Cat? 54

Study Guide: Consonants c, g, s, t, w, x, Y 65

Review 7 66

Consonant Digraphs 68

Box 2.4: Too Many English Sounds, Too Few English Letters:

The French Solution 69

Review 8 70

ch, sh, zh 71

Review 9 73

th, jIi, wh 73

Box 2.5: An Easy Way to Recognize Voiced and Voiceless Phonemes and Some

Insight into Invented Spelling 75

Review 10 76

ng 77

Study Guide: Consonant Digraphs ch, sh, th, wh, ng 78

Review 11 79

Consonant Clusters and Blends 80

Study Guide: Consonant Clusters and Blends 83

Review 12 84

Recap I 85

Review 17 120

Diphthongs 121

Review 18 123

Vowel Digraphs 124

Review 19 126

Other Vowel Pairs 126

Study Guide: Diphthongs, Vowel Digraphs, and Other Vowel Pairs 130

Review 20 131

Recap II 132

Q A

Review of Phonemes 135

Review Outline 136

Onsets and Rimes 149

Study Guide: Onsets and Rimes and 50 Common Rimes

Review 21 157

Contents 156

Introduction 87

Review 13 90

Short Vowel Sounds 90

Study Guide: Short Vowels 97

Review 14 98

Long Vowel Sounds 99

Box 3.1: Final E Solves Four Spelling Problems

Box 3.2: The Extra E 107

Study Guide: Long Vowels 108

Review 15 110

Study Guide: Schwa 113

Review 16 114

Other Single Vowels 114

Study Guide: Other Single Vowels 120

Introduction 159

Clues to Placement of Accents

Study Guide: Syllable Accents

Review 22 167

Clues to Syllable Division 167

Study Guide: Syllable Division

Review 23 179

Recap III 179

Contents

Introduction 185

Review 24 188

Prefixes and Suffixes, Contractions, and Compound Words 188

Study Guide: Prefixes for Word Study 194

Study Guide: Suffixes for Word Study 195

Study Guide: Contractions for Word Study 196

Review 25 197

Spelling Generalizations for Adding Prefixes and Suffixes to Words 198

Study Guide: Spelling Generalizations for Adding Prefixes and Suffixes toWords 207

Review 26 209

Recap IV 209

Self-Evaluation II: A Posttest 213

Answers to the Pretest and Posttest

Answers to the Reviews 229

Appendix A: Phonics and Structural Analysis Generalizations 241

Appendix B: Graphemes, Key Symbols, and Key Words 245

Glossary 247

The New copy of this book will include any supplemental materials advertised. Please check the title of the book to determine if it should include any access cards, study guides, lab manuals, CDs, etc.

The Used, Rental and eBook copies of this book are not guaranteed to include any supplemental materials. Typically, only the book itself is included. This is true even if the title states it includes any access cards, study guides, lab manuals, CDs, etc.