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PATHWAY
READERS - LEARNING THROUGH SOUNDS
1ST GRADE PHONICS COMPLETE SET |
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| THE TEACHER'S
EDITION, TEACHER'S MANUAL |
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This
117 page Teachers' Manual covers the two grade one phonics workbooks - LEARNING
THROUGH SOUNDS I and LEARNING THROUGH SOUNDS II. Other workbooks available to aid the
teaching of phonics which we highly recommend are: HELPING YOURSELF- a pupils’
workbook designed to give extra practice through seatwork and busywork without taking much
of the teacher’s time. Instructions are included in the pupils’ workbooks. |
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| LEARNING THROUGH SOUNDS - WORKBOOK
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This
80 page workbook has been prepared especially for first graders in home school or
classroom environment. Pictures have been carefully chosen to be of objects the average
child is familiar with. Not only was the book prepared with the children in mind, their
teacher was also considered. Though children need a certain amount of teacher help to
master the skill of sounding out words, this workbook has been designed so that the
children will soon be able to work without much teacher assistance. |
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there are no instructions included with the exercises in this book. You will find detailed
instructions, plus a wealth of supplementary exercises in the "Teachers’ Manual
for Grade One Readers. " We would like to encourage teachers to follow the
instructions given in the manual, then let their own imagination and that of the children
lead them into deeper and more detailed lessons in phonics. |
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| LEARNING THROUGH SOUNDS - WORKBOOK 2 |
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This 88 page
workbook has been prepared especially for first graders, to follow LEARNING THROUGH
SOUNDS, Book 1. All the sounds taught in Book 1 are reviewed on the first pages of this
workbook, and then the consonant blends, long vowels, consonant and vowel digraphs, and
some of the diphthongs are introduced and taught. Great care was taken to reinforce and
review each sound repeatedly, but no workbook can take the place of daily drilling. |
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teacher is encouraged to work with her pupils until they recognize each sound
automatically the instant they see it.
No teacher should attempt to teach the lessons in this workbook without the aid of its
accompanying teacher’s manual. The manual contains complete instructions, plus ideas
for games and activities that help the children learn and remember the sounds. The manual,
however, should not be considered the "one and only" teaching method. It is
merely made up of suggestions that should motivate each teacher to use her own imagination
and adapt the ideas to fit her way of teaching and her first grade students.The first part of this workbook has no children
instructions. They are thoroughly explained in the teacher’s manual. Later on, when
the children should be able to read the instructions, they are included on the pages. |
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| HELPING YOURSELF
- SEATWORK BOOK |
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HELPING
YOURSELF is an 88 page seatwork book that has especially been prepared for the benefit of
busy teachers in home school,
parochial, or other small classroom environments and their not-so-busy first graders. Compiled by a
veteran Pennsylvania teacher, it is designed to be used during the first weeks of the
term, along with the phonics book, LEARNING THROUGH SOUNDS. |
You will notice
that the first twelve pages are primarily pencil and cut-paste lessons, and from then on
there are two pages for each letter of the alphabet, taken in the same order they are
introduced in LEARNING THROUGH SOUNDS.
This does not mean, however, that this busywork book can not be used with other
phonics programs. It will go well with any workbook, providing the pages are given in an
order to comply with the other material being used.With perhaps a few exceptions, every other page is a
cut-and-paste exercise. This is for several reasons. First, children can not print neatly
until they have developed good hand coordination. Learning to use a scissors helps to
develop this coordination. Second, though a bit messy, cutting and pasting is a time
consuming and enjoyable pastime for first graders. Like in anything else, they can be
trained to be neat with this. Stress using only a little bit of glue or paste, and
cleaning up their mess when they are finished.
There is no teacher’s manual for this
seatwork book. Simple instructions are included on each page, and each lesson is designed
so that the pupils can work independently without much help from the teacher. In short, it
is to keep the children busy without making the teacher busier. |
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