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Recommended Textbooks

The following textbooks are not required reading. You do not need to read them to successfully complete any discussions or assignments in this course, but they are highly recommended reading to support teaching literacy. 

Words Their Way 

Words Their Way is a hands-on, developmentally-driven approach to word study that illustrates how to integrate and teach children phonics, vocabulary, and spelling skills.

For Words Their Way, it is recommended that you read the sixth or seventh edition.

Bear, D.R., Invernizi, M., Templeton, S., & Johnston, F.R. (2016). Words their way: Word study for phonics, vocabulary, and spelling instruction (6th ed.). Pearson Education, Inc. ISBN: 978-0133996333

  •  Chapter 1
  •  Chapter 2
  •  Appendix A
  •  pp. 317-318

Bear, D.R., Invernizi, M., Templeton, S., & Johnston, F.R. (2019). Words their way: Word study for phonics, vocabulary, and spelling instruction (7th ed.). Pearson Education, Inc. ISBN: 9780135204917

  •  Chapter 1
  •  Chapter 2
  •  Appendix A
  •  pp. 373-375

Phonics They Use

With its focus on how students use phonics to read and write, not just how much phonics a student knows, Phonics They Use includes numerous developmentally appropriate activities for helping students with fluency, rhyme-based decoding, spelling, and more.

Cunningham, P.M. (2017). Phonics they use: Words for reading and writing (7th ed.). Pearson Education, Inc. ISBN: 978-0134255187

  •  Chapter 5
  •  Chapter 8
  •  Chapter 11
  •  Chapter 15
  •  Chapter 16

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