Table Of ContentIntroduction 1 Lesson 1 l fireplaces 000 Lesson Focus: rhyming patterns ape , ace , ice re , meaning back or again Lesson 2 l treasures 000 Lesson Focus: rhyming patterns at , eat , ate , ue er/est , meaning more/most re , meaning back or again Lesson 3 l rattlesnake 000 Lesson Focus: rhyming patterns eat , east , ake er/est , meaning more/most Lesson 4 l teachers/cheaters (2 secret words) Lesson Focus: rhyming patterns eat , each er , meaning person or thing re , meaning back or again Lesson 5 l fireworks Lesson Focus: rhyming patterns ir , ire , ise , isk er , meaning more er , meaning person or thing re , meaning back or again Lesson 6 l workbench Lesson Focus: rhyming patterns oke , eck , ench er , meaning person or thing en , changing part of speech Lesson 7 l repainted 000 Lesson Focus: rhyming patterns aid , ied , ain er , meaning person or thing re , meaning back or again Lesson 8 l unpleasant 000 Lesson Focus: rhyming patterns at , ast , ent , est , eal un , meaning not or opposite Lesson 9 l friendly 000 Lesson Focus: rhyming patterns y , ine , ield er , meaning person or thing ly , changing part of speech Lesson 10 l perfectly 000 Lesson Focus: rhyming patterns y , ee , eel re , meaning back or again ly , changing part of speech y , changing part of speech Lesson 11 l playground 000 Lesson Focus: rhyming patterns ay , oad , oud , ound un , meaning not or opposite ly , changing part of speech Lesson 12 l &n
SynopsisAn active and innovative approach to making words that teachers and their students have grown to love is finally here Based on its highly successful parent text, Phonics They Use , this new grade-level series Making Words offers teachers a fresh multi-level activity and lesson series written for the kindergarten through fifth grade classroom. Pat Cunningham and Dottie Hall present classroom teachers with effective tools for strengthening phonics and spelling skills that encourage students to move beyond learning and into a world of word discovery. Each research-based volume includes a wealth of friendly, hands-on, manipulative activities that guide teachers in teaching the development of words--from phonemic awareness to spelling. In Making Words Fourth Grade, Pat and Dottie introduce fourth grade teachers to 50 lessons that teach all the prefixes, suffixes, and root skills included in most fourth grade curriculums. Each Making Words activity leads children through a systematic and sequential spelling curriculum. All lessons include practice with prefixes and suffixes as children stretch out words they are making and blend the letters to make new words. Because teaching children letter-sound relationships is easier than teaching children to actually use these letter-sound relationships, all lessons include a transfer step in which children apply the sounds they are learning to spelling new words. Making Words Fourth Grade is the best resource you can have on hand for motivating your students to learn words Features 50 fun and interactive lessons for building decoding and spelling skills. Presents a concise method for involving students in the process of identifying common contractions and compound words and more complex vowel patterns within words. Promotes student awareness of similarities in words that helps develop writing skills. Includes reproducible take-home record sheets to help students build their vocabularies., An active and innovative approach to making words that teachers and their students have grown to love is finally here! Based on its highly successful parent text, Phonics They Use , this new grade-level series Making Words offers teachers a fresh multi-level activity and lesson series written for the kindergarten through fifth grade classroom. Pat Cunningham and Dottie Hall present classroom teachers with effective tools for strengthening phonics and spelling skills that encourage students to move beyond learning and into a world of word discovery. Each research-based volume includes a wealth of friendly, hands-on, manipulative activities that guide teachers in teaching the development of words--from phonemic awareness to spelling. In Making Words Fourth Grade, Pat and Dottie introduce fourth grade teachers to 50 lessons that teach all the prefixes, suffixes, and root skills included in most fourth grade curriculums. Each Making Words activity leads children through a systematic and sequential spelling curriculum. All lessons include practice with prefixes and suffixes as children stretch out words they are making and blend the letters to make new words. Because teaching children letter-sound relationships is easier than teaching children to actually use these letter-sound relationships, all lessons include a transfer step in which children apply the sounds they are learning to spelling new words. Making Words Fourth Grade is the best resource you can have on hand for motivating your students to learn words! Features 50 fun and interactive lessons for building decoding and spelling skills. Presents a concise method for involving students in the process of identifying common contractions and compound words and more complex vowel patterns within words. Promotes student awareness of similarities in words that helps develop writing skills. Includes reproducible take-home record sheets to help students build their vocabularies., Based off the best-selling Phonics They Use, the authors provide 50 fresh hands-on lessons for phonics and that will encourage students to move beyond learning and into a world of word discovery. Filled with a wealth of activities, teachers will find it a cinch to integrate the reproducible resources directly into their reading progam with little effort. KEY TOPICS: Presents step-by-step instructions for teaching prefixes, suffixes and roots. MARKET Written for fourth grade teachers., An active and innovative approach to making words that teachers and their students have grown to love is finally here! Based on its highly successful parent text, Phonics They Use , this new grade-level series Making Words offers teachers a fresh multi-level activity and lesson series written for the kindergarten through fifth grade classroom. Pat Cunningham and Dottie Hall present classroom teachers with effective tools for strengthening phonics and spelling skills that encourage students to move beyond learning and into a world of word discovery. Each research-based volume includes a wealth of friendly, hands-on, manipulative activities that guide teachers in teaching the development of words--from phonemic awareness to spelling. In Making Words Fourth Grade, Pat and Dottie introduce 4th grade teachers to 50 lessons that teach all the prefixes, suffixes, and root skills included in most fourth grade curriculums. Each Making Words activity leads children through a systematic and sequential spelling curriculum. All lessons include practice with prefixes and suffixes as children stretch out words they are making and blend the letters to make new words. Because teaching children letter-sound relationships is easier than teaching children to actually use these letter-sound relationships, all lessons include a transfer step in which children apply the sounds they are learning to spelling new words. Making Words Fourth Grade is the best resource you can have on hand for motivating your students to learn words!