• Teach recognition of consonants vs. vowels.
• Introduce letter sounds with actions (not with words that begin with the sounds).
  • Children do not have to be able to decode to learn the sounds.
• Teach long vowel sounds first.
  • Make vowel sounds easy to remember because they are the same as the letter names.
  • Call specific attention to the vowels in the words so that children know which sound the vowel will make.
  • Teach the long vowel rule that enables children to know when vowel sounds are silent or long.
• Introduce children to correct printing.
  • Verbalize each stroke during printing to engage the whole child.
  • Emphasize accurately touching the lines when printing.
• Instruct children in beginning sounds.
• Show students how to blend sounds into words.
  • Instruct children in the accurate pronunciation of letter sounds, boosting their ability to understand complete words when sounds are blended.
  • Smoothly slide the letter sounds together (rather than verbalizing them in a disconnected manner).
• Teach children to read sentences.

All Student Workbooks 2–9 include the following pages:

• Achievement Charts
  • Enable children to track their progress.
  • Provide ready-made progress reports.
• Vocabulary Cards
  • Use the front side (word and a picture) to aid understanding.
  • Use the back (only the word) to facilitate testing.
• Test Prep Pages
  • Help children to feel comfortable with standardized testing styles.
  • Provide ready-made assessments.
  • Review skills-to-date from the entire program.

Teacher's Guide 2 - Kindergarten children can talk clearly and use adult speech sounds. They have mastered basic grammar, can relate a story, and know over 2,000 words. Children around the age of five years old are developmentally ready to begin learning the alphabetic code that visually represents the sounds and words they speak. Teacher’s Guide 2 is the second instruction manual, in a series of nine, that covers Stellar Phonics to Reading’s year-long kindergarten phonics curriculum. This guide contains step-by-step instructions and teaching tips for lessons 11–30. These twenty lessons cover the introduction of letters A–F and include: letter recognition, letter-sound association, correct printing of the letters, hearing the sound of the letter at the beginning of a word, and blending letter sounds into words. The companion Student Workbook 2 gives students practice using the skills taught in each lesson. All Teacher’s Guides contain daily lesson plans that include:

• Review: Reinforcing previously taught concepts
• Introduction: New letter(s) or spellings
• Listening: Beginning, middle, ending, rhyming, syllables
• Blending and reading: Words, sentences, or stories
• Printing: Letters, words, sentences, or stories
• Student Workbook pages
• Follow-Up Exercises
• Extension activities
• Thinking Skills activity
• Connections: Activities which link phonics to social studies, science and health
• Assessment tools

Student Workbook 2: A, B, C, D, E, F (Lessons 11-30) SPRSW02$12.99