A Sound Way - (ISBN 0 582 80414 0)

A Sound Way is a popular and practical teacher resource book for developing children's phonological awareness skills essential for early literacy. It was first published in 1994 and has since been reprinted 12 times. A Sound Way is divided into four sections.

1. What's in a sound? It gives comprehensive information about the sounds, where and how they are made, as well as fun ways to establish oral awareness.

2. Sound-Letter Links shows the teacher ways of assisting children acquire clear concepts of sounds and letters.

3. Phonological awareness activities in seven areas - word awareness, syllables, rhyme, alliteration, sound analysis - segmentation, blending sounds, and manipulation of sounds in words. Each phonological awareness area contains activities that are purely oral/aural (represented by a mouth symbol at the top of the page) as well as activities that link sounds with letters in writing/reading activities (pen symbol at top of page).

4. Resources and references.

Uses: Classroom and small group activities to develop phonological awareness.
Reproducible pages can be enlarged and coloured to make lasting classroom resources.

Target Population: Early primary students aged 4 to 8 years and older clients with reading or spelling difficulties.

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