Teach Kids to Read For Dummies

Introduction.Part I: Preparing Your Child for the Road Ahead.Chapter 1: The Wonder and Power of Reading.Chapter 2: The Pre-Reader: Leading Up to Letters.Chapter 3: Tigers and Teachers: Listening to Letters.Chapter 4: m or n? b or d? Looking at Letters.Chapter 5: Blending Letters Together.Chapter 6: Four Special Sounds in Reading: ch, sh, ph, and th.Part II: Building Words from Letters and Sounds.Chapter 7: Getting Ready for Words and Sentences.Chapter 8: Reading Short a Words.Chapter 9: Reading Short e, i, and o Words.Chapter 10: Reading Short u Words.Part III: Advancing to Sight Words and Long Vowel Sounds.Chapter 11: Understanding Sight Words.Chapter 12: Making Big Progress with Little Rules.Chapter 13: y: A Letter Like No Other.Part IV: Scary Stuff Beginning with S:Soft Sounds, Suffixes, Syllables, and Silent Letters.Chapter 14: Soft Sounds.Chapter 15: Endings (a.k.a. Suffixes).Chapter 16: Chunks of Sound, or Syllables.Chapter 17: Time to Growl: ar, or, er, ir, and ur.Chapter 18: Silent (But Not Deadly) Letters.Chapter 19: Getting Beyond Sounds and Rules.Part V: Reading, Reading, and More Reading.Chapter 20: Choosing Just-Right Reading Books.Chapter 21: Writing and Workbooks.Chapter 22: Having Your Child Read Out Loud.Chapter 23: Keeping Your Child on the Reading Track.Chapter 24: When to Get Help for Your Child.Part VI: The Part of Tens.Chapter 25: More Than Ten Word Families.Chapter 26: Ten Phonics Rules.Chapter 27: Ten Things to Help Your Budding Reader.Chapter 28: Ten Reading Teachers' Resources.Appendix: A Word Family Tree.Index.

Tracey Wood, MEd, is a children's reading specialist. She has been teaching children to read and advising their parents and teachers for 20 years.

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