| The Words Their Way: Word Study for Phonics, | | | | content some practical application. |
| Vocabulary, and Spelling Instruction by Donald Bear, | | | | By far the best part of this textbook is the test portion |
| Marcia Invernizzi, Shane Templeton, and Francine | | | | near the back that shows teachers how to grade |
| Johnston is an essential textbook for elementary | | | | phonetics based on how close to correct a child spells |
| school teachers. It provides useful teaching examples | | | | a word. It gives teachers a great way to give partial |
| on how to teach phonics for teachers and simple | | | | credit while still helping the kids learn their vocabulary |
| phonetic example problems, study material, and sample | | | | Taking some of the lesson plans mixed with some of |
| testing material for students. Although this is certainly a | | | | the vocabulary and techniques presented in the |
| textbook geared towards elementary school teachers, | | | | textbook has proven moderately effective in a fourth |
| it provides some excellent material even for teaching | | | | grade setting by this teacher. The most useful part of |
| remedial level grammar for middle school students. | | | | the entire textbook is definitely the lesson plans |
| The textbook itself can prove to be a difficult read for | | | | presented as well as the appendices and figures at |
| some teachers depending on the college that the soon | | | | the end of the book which gives a very visual |
| to be teacher is attending. Some of the lesson plans | | | | presentation to many of the more complicated |
| are fantastic, easy to read, and easy to understand | | | | concepts that are difficult to explain to elementary |
| whereas some lesson plans are very difficult to | | | | school children. This is a great textbook to have for |
| understand without some actually showing you the | | | | teachers because of the lessons, worksheets, and |
| example. That is why the CD comes in so helpful with | | | | interesting grading concepts. It is highly recommended |
| this book. Sometimes it is just too difficult to | | | | that all elementary teachers have this book or one that |
| understand how to teach a lesson without showing an | | | | has similiar concepts and teaching material. Just |
| actual real life example. | | | | understand that some teachers may need to skip |
| Overall, this textbook has some really good spelling | | | | through some of the complicated writing and teaching |
| and grammar lesson plans especially for school | | | | explanations to get to the things that are really useful |
| systems that prefer to teach purely phonics. Especially | | | | because of the limited time constraints teachers have. |
| the games at the end of the textbook really give the | | | | |