A Sound Approach presents a logically sequenced method for teaching reading and spelling using phonemic awareness. The book is based on real classroom experiences, a synthesis of contemporary research, and teacher . This resource provides the knowledge and skills you need to effectively assess and teach crucial reading skills to your beginning and struggling readers.

The authors offer:

a variety of simple, effective activities that appeal to visual, auditory, and kinesthetic learners

engaging, easy-to-follow lesson plans appropriate for whole-class, small-group, or individual instruction that easily fit into a readers-workshop or literacy-centre approach

enlightening research-to-practice sidebars that respond to common questions and concerns

reproducible assessments, sound cards and word cards, short-vowel cue cards, pictures pages, words-and-pictures pages, story starters, and riddles