Phonics for Dummies

Susan M. Greve has been a reading specialist for 23 years. She has conducted phonics workshops across the country, and has helped schools and home-schooling parents through tutoring, publishing, and consulting.

Introduction. Part I: Getting Ready to Read with Phonics. Chapter 1: Pondering the Power of Phonics. Chapter 2: Setting Up Your Teaching Aids and Techniques. Part II: Exploring the Fundamentals of Phonics. Chapter 3: Starting with Simple Consonants and a Vowel. Chapter 4: Finishing Short Vowels and Seeing Patterns. Chapter 5: Joining Consonants Together to Make More Sounds. Chapter 6: Pursuing Plurals and Compound Words. Chapter 7: Making Long-Vowel Sounds. Chapter 8: Presenting Diverse Vowel Sounds of a, o, and u. Chapter 9: Delving into Diphthongs and Shortcuts. Part III: Moving Beyond the Phonics Basics. Chapter 10: Stepping Through the Pronunciation Process. Chapter 11: Finding Happy Endings with Suffixes. Chapter 12: The Dual Personalities of s, c, and g. Chapter 13: Tapping into Unusual Spellings. Chapter 14: Digging Deeper into Prefixes and Suffixes. Part IV: Tackling the Trickier Side of Phonics. Chapter 15: Schwinging with Schwa: Finding the Quick uh Sound. Chapter 16: Explaining English Exceptions. Chapter 17: Zeroing In On x and zh. Part V: The Part of Tens. Chapter 18: Ten Challenging Activities for Reinforcement. Chapter 19: Ten (Well, Not Just Ten) Recommended Supplemental Resources. Appendix A: Phonics Guidelines and Definitions. Appendix B: Recommended Books for Your Kid's Library. Appendix C: Keyword Cards You Can Use. Appendix D: On the CD. Index.