From the Back Cover
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Patricia M. Cunningham
Phonics They Use, 5/e
From highly respected scholar Pat Cunningham, this enduring
best seller offers a coherent collection of practical activities
that provide a framework for teaching phonics.
The fifth edition of this esteemed book seamlessly weaves
together the complex, varied strategic approaches needed to help
students develop reading and spelling skills. Pat’s balanced
reading program incorporates a broad spectrum of methods for
meeting the needs of individual students. New activities and
strategies emphasize that what matters is not how much phonics
students know but what they actually use for decoding a new word,
for reading and spelling, and for writing.
“This text is an excellent teaching and learning tool for all
teachers in the field. [Pat] is obviously aware of the problems
facing classroom teachers [and] thoroughly understands students
and their reading development.” –Christine Frazer, teacher,
Henry P. Fieler Elementary, Merrillville, IN
“No matter what age or level you teach, you will know all of
the activities to make successful readers and writers!”–Christine
Eaton, founder, Little Learners Early Childhood Center, Olathe,
KS
Patricia M. Cunningham is the author of Beyond Retelling,
Classrooms That Work, Schools That Work, and the Making Words
series, all published by Allyn & Bacon, as well as a professor of
education at Wake Forest University. She has over 30 years of
experience in various elementary grades and with remedial reading
and has served as a curriculum coordinator and director of
reading. Pat promotes literacy for all children through her Four
Blocks® workshops and staff development sessions with educators.
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About the Author
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Patricia M. Cunningham
The day I entered first grade, I decided I wanted to teach first
grade. In 1965, I graduated from the University of Rhode Island
and began my teaching career teaching first grade in Key West,
Florida. For the next several years, I taught a variety of grades
and worked as a curriculum coordinator and special reading
teacher in Florida and Indiana.
From the very beginning, I worried about children who struggled
learning to read and devised a variety of alternative strategies
to teach them to read. In 1974, I received my Ph. D. in Reading
Education from the University of Georgia. I developed the Making
Words activity while working with Title One teachers in North
Carolina where I was the Director of Reading for Alamance County
Schools. I have been the Director of Elementary Education at Wake
Forest University in Winston Salem, North Carolina since 1980 and
have worked with numerous teachers to develop hands-on engaging
ways to teach phonics and spelling. In 1991, I published Phonics
they Use: Words for Reading and Writing, which is currently
available in its fourth edition. Along with Richard Allington, I
published Classrooms that Work and Schools that Work.
Dottie Hall and I have worked together on many projects. In
1989, we began developing the Four Blocks Framework, a
comprehensive approach to literacy which is used in many schools
in the United States and Canada. Dottie Hall and I have worked
together to produce many books, including the first Making Words
books and the Month by Month Phonics Books. These Making Words by
Grade Level books are in response to requests by teachers across
the years to have making words lessons with a and sequence
tailored to their grade level. We hope you and your students will
enjoy these making words lessons and we would love to hear your
comments and suggestions.
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