Phonics for the Teacher of Reading, tenth edition, presents the context of phonics as one strategy for identifying and learning new words.  Designed for classroom teachers, reading teachers, and special education teachers who will soon be entering teaching for the first time, this text provides a tutorial for learning the elements of phonemic awareness and phonics.  In addition, it helps sharpen teachers' knowledge of phonics, onsets and rimes, and how syllables affect pronunciation.

Table of Contents:
TABLE OF CONTENTS     Preface ix   Self-Evaluation I: A Pretest 1   General Knowledge and Terminology 9   Events That Shaped English Spelling 9 What Does the Research Say about Teaching Phonics? 10 Basic Elements of Phonics 12 Box 1.1: Green Glass or Green Grass? Two English Phonemes Box 1.2: An Allophone Experiment 16 Graphophonic, Syntactic, and Semantic Cues 21 Box 1.3: Spanish Phonemes 22 Review 1 24 References 25   Introduction 27 Review 2 30 Single-Letter Consonants 31 m, q, r, v 33 Box 2.1: How Would a Duck Quack without Q? 35 Review 3 36 b, h, k, t, P 36 Study Guide: Consonants b, h, k, t, m, p, q, r, v 41 Review 4 42 d, f, j, n, z 43 Box 2.2: Why Z Comes Last 48 Study Guide: Consonants d, f, j, n, z; Digraphs dg, gh, ph; Suffix -cd Review 5 50 C, g, W, Y 51 Box 2.3: Why Not Kfor Cat? 54   Study Guide: Consonants c, g, s, t, w, x, Y 65 Review 7 66 Consonant Digraphs 68 Box 2.4: Too Many English Sounds, Too Few English Letters: The French Solution 69 Review 8 70 ch, sh, zh 71 Review 9 73 th, jIi, wh 73 Box 2.5: An Easy Way to Recognize Voiced and Voiceless Phonemes and Some Insight into Invented Spelling 75 Review 10 76 ng 77 Study Guide: Consonant Digraphs ch, sh, th, wh, ng 78 Review 11 79 Consonant Clusters and Blends 80 Study Guide: Consonant Clusters and Blends 83 Review 12 84 Recap I 85 Review 17 120 Diphthongs 121 Review 18 123 Vowel Digraphs 124 Review 19 126 Other Vowel Pairs 126 Study Guide: Diphthongs, Vowel Digraphs, and Other Vowel Pairs 130 Review 20 131 Recap II 132 Q A Review of Phonemes 135 Review Outline 136 Onsets and Rimes 149 Study Guide: Onsets and Rimes and 50 Common Rimes Review 21 157   Contents 156 Introduction 87 Review 13 90 Short Vowel Sounds 90 Study Guide: Short Vowels 97 Review 14 98 Long Vowel Sounds 99 Box 3.1: Final E Solves Four Spelling Problems Box 3.2: The Extra E 107 Study Guide: Long Vowels 108 Review 15 110 Study Guide: Schwa 113 Review 16 114 Other Single Vowels 114 Study Guide: Other Single Vowels 120   Introduction 159 Clues to Placement of Accents Study Guide: Syllable Accents Review 22 167 Clues to Syllable Division 167 Study Guide: Syllable Division Review 23 179 Recap III 179   Contents Introduction 185 Review 24 188 Prefixes and Suffixes, Contractions, and Compound Words 188 Study Guide: Prefixes for Word Study 194 Study Guide: Suffixes for Word Study 195 Study Guide: Contractions for Word Study 196 Review 25 197 Spelling Generalizations for Adding Prefixes and Suffixes to Words 198 Study Guide: Spelling Generalizations for Adding Prefixes and Suffixes toWords 207 Review 26 209 Recap IV 209 Self-Evaluation II: A Posttest 213 Answers to the Pretest and Posttest Answers to the Reviews 229 Appendix A: Phonics and Structural Analysis Generalizations 241 Appendix B: Graphemes, Key Symbols, and Key Words 245 Glossary 247