The Teacher's Manual is essential and central to the program, as it provides an overview as well as lessons for each of the 67 sounds that make up this program. 97 lessons cover these sounds plus additional lessons on syllabication rules, prefixes, and suffixes, as well as review. Sample scripted lessons are provided, but individual lessons are not scripted; they are carefully laid out and coordinated with both workbooks and Alphabet Series Readers.
Recipe for Reading Teacher's Manual
Description
Recipe for Reading: Intervention Strategies for Struggling Readers. This newly revised manual by Frances Bloom and Nina Traub contains a series of structured lessons that cover the entire Recipe for Reading sequence. The material is presented in a flexible format, allowing teachers to differentiate instruction depending on the specific needs of their students. Each lesson contains kinesthetic handwriting cues phonological awareness and fluency activities, and words, phrases, and sentences for reading and dictation. The revised manual features additional phonological awareness exercises in the introductions to each new sound; a new section, For Fun and Practice, in each lesson; and references to the workbook pages and The Alphabet Series storybook that correspond to the lesson. The Focus on Sound appendix from the previous edition has also been integrated into the main lessons. The glossary has also been expanded. Skills have been realigned to accommodate Vol. 2 of the Alphabet Series and the new workbooks.
Recipe for Reading is a three-year phonics/reading program based on the Orton-Gillingham methodology that won’t break the bank. Sound like a win-win? Targeting struggling readers but useable for all students, the teaching materials were developed for tutors. If you have a child who is struggling with learning to read or who you suspect might have dyslexia, or if you just want a solid phonics/reading program, this is also one to consider.
As with any recipe, the Recipe for Reading program allows you to know what ingredients are needed, understand how they are to be combined, and be able to adapt the recipe to individual needs and differentiated circumstances. The research-based teaching methodology provides systematic instruction that combines phonemic awareness and phonics with fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension. Lessons follow a pattern (as you may expect). Sounds with examples are presented, reviewed, and reinforced. Decodable words are taught with each lesson followed by decodable sentences that can be used for both dictation and reading. Rhyming nonsense words provide a bit of fun and practice. Workbook reinforcement gives the student lots of practice. The coordinating Alphabet Series Readers provide enjoyable and ample reading practice. Everything fits together into a cohesive whole – a whole designed to be one to three years of phonics/reading instruction.
The Teacher’s Manual is essential and central to the program, as it provides an overview as well as lessons for each of the 67 sounds that make up this program. 97 lessons cover these sounds plus additional lessons on syllabication rules, prefixes, and suffixes, as well as review. Sample scripted lessons are provided, but individual lessons are not scripted; they are carefully laid out and coordinated with both workbooks and Alphabet Series Readers. This program provides the basics and leaves room for you to add creativity. It includes elements that I consider to be important – systematic phonics, lots of reading practice including words and phrases, an emphasis on learning the meaning of words as well as regular comprehension checks – but encourages flexibility, pacing geared to the child, and incorporation of multi-sensory applications.
| Product Format: | Softcover Book |
|---|---|
| Grades: | K-6 |
| Brand: | Educators Publishing Service |
| ISBN: | 9780838805053 |
| Length in Inches: | 10.25 |
| Width in Inches: | 7.375 |
| Height in Inches: | 0.6875 |
| Weight in Pounds: | 1.0063 |
