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Brown bear, brown bear, what do you see?

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Brown bear, brown bear, what do you see?

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Martin, B., & Carle, E. (20091967). Brown bear, brown bear, what do you see?. New York: Macmillan Young Listeners.

This is a great children's book that focuses on repetitive phrases, beginning wounds and phoneme discrimination. This is a great story book for students to practice and be able to detect repetitive sound and phrases that they find in grade level readings. A great book for focusing on pattern appreciation for grade school students. (Jeff Frye)

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Words and Pictures. (n.d.). BBC News. Retrieved October 5, 2014, from http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/wordsandpictures/longvow/poems/flash/fpoem7.shtml

This is a great interactive website through the BBC. It allows students to choose what they want to work on: CVC words, Consonant Clusters, Long Vowel Sounds, and High Frequency Words. It is interactive, the students click the links and follow along. It has pictures as well as sounds that compliment the pictures. It is a great interactive website for teachers, students, and parents. (Jeff Frye)

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Brown, M. W., & Hurd, C. (1947).Goodnight moon;. New York: Harper.

This is a great classic children's book. This is a great book for rhyming words. This book helps children recognize and read rhyming words in text as well as working to get children to build their vocabulary and knowledge of words. (Jeff Frye)

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Carle, E. (1987). The very hungry caterpillar ([Rev.]. ed.). New York: Philomel Books.

A classic story of a caterpillar that eats everything it sees, throughout the days of the week, and then at the end turns into a beautiful butterfly. This is a great book for working on long and short vowel sounds in words such as the long and short a. (Jeff Frye)

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Piper, W., & Long, L. (2005). The little engine that could. New York: Philomel Books :.

This is a wonderful children's book that tells a tale of inspiration. It is also a wonderful book for children to work on high-frequency words as well as vocabulary nouns. (Jeff Frye)

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Sendak, M. (1963). Where the wild things are. New York: Harper & Row.

This iconic picture book has only a little over 300 words which makes it ideal for teaching early readers phonemic awareness, decoding strategies, expanding sight word vocabulary, and reading comprehension. It is a favorite of children and adults alike all over the world, including myself. (Cody LaRue)

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Primary home. (n.d.). Comics for Phonics. Retrieved October 3, 2014, from http://www.pearsonschoolsandfecolleges.com

Although it is a paid service, this website gives students a chance to read comic books specifically designed with phonics instruction in mind. The comics focus on blending and decoding words with students while simultaneously entertaining them with well known characters such as DC's Batman. (Cody LaRue)

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Scieszka, J., & Smith, L. (1989). The true story of the 3 little pigs. New York, N.Y., U.S.A.: Viking Kestrel.

In a creative twist, the classic story of the Three little pigs is told from the perspective of the Big Bad Wolf. This hilarious picture book is helpful in teaching readers about compound words and word chunks in the context of their reading. (Cody LaRue)

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Scieszka, J., Smith, L., & Leach, M. (1992). The Stinky Cheese Man and other fairly stupid tales. New York, N.Y., U.S.A.: Viking.

This book is a wonderful spoof on classic book design and the fairy tale genre. Large colorful words and pictures aid in teaching students letter-sounds. In addition many stories use rhyming words useful for rhyming awareness instruction. (Cody LaRue)

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Using Calvin and Hobbes in Phonics Instruction

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Using Calvin and Hobbes in Phonics Instruction

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Meldrum, A. (2013, December 15). 5 Reasons to Read Calvin and Hobbes to Struggling Readers. The Tutor House. Retrieved October 3, 2014, from http://the-tutor-house.com/2013/12/5-reasons-to-read-calvin-and-hobbes-to/

I found this website to be a useful tool for any teacher like me that enjoys teaching to a wide age range of students. It is particularly useful in the are of phonics focusing on letter sounds and overall phonemic awareness. The author also includes free teaching resources for classroom activities. (Cody LaRue)