Phonics: Multimedia Resource Collection

The Children's Department at the Canton Public Library has many resources that use the phonetic method to teach reading. These materials come in many formats to fit a variety of learning styles.

Books: (For Parents)

• Better Phonics and beyond in 5 minutes a day: phonics fun for kids and parents on the go
  Puzzles, games and other creative educational activities are found in this book to help you find the time and energy to help your child develop the speed and accuracy of a great reader.
• Big Book of Phonics for whole language
  The purpose of this book is to introduce children to phonetic readiness skills by providing activities that combine all areas of the curriculum.
• The Complete Book of Phonics
  Designed by leading experts in reading education, this book offers children ages 4-8 the tools they need to become successful readers. Its systematic approach teaches children how to decode unfamiliar words and strengthen spelling skills as they complete a variety of exercises that focus on letter-sound correspondence and patterns.
• Frisky phonics Fun 1
  A comprehensive phonics workbook that exposes beginning readers to over 1,000 one –syllable words having short vowel sounds.
• Frisky phonics fun 2
  A comprehensive phonics workbook that will fascinate the beginning reader.
• Literature Links to Phonics: a balanced approach
  This unique approach uses phonics and sight recogniton of high-frequency words to support and strengthen the cross-checking system of fluent readers
• My first phonics book
  An introduction to phonetic sounds, using pictures, poems and riddles.
• Perfect poems for teaching phonics
  Delightful poems, lively lessons and reproducible activities that teach key phonics skills and concepts.
• Phonemic Awareness activities for early reading success: easy, playful activities that help prepare children for phonics instruction
  Phonemic awareness is the understanding that words are made up of sounds. This books deals with sounds in spoken words.
• Phonics games kids can't resist: 25 lively learning games that make teaching phonics easy and fun
  This book is filled with games and activities that teach the alphabet, consonants, blends, vowels and more.
• Quick and easy learning games: phonics
  Games focus on students knowledge of sound/spelling correspondences and the ability to blend words.
• Reading Connections
  This books makes a phonics connection with mini-books and stories that build on sound skills and word recognition

  

Books for young children...

• Play with vowel sound series:
  Vowel sounds are introduced as children play fun games.
• Sound Box series
  The Sound Box books feature words beginning with each letter of the alphabet.

Books for Beginning Readers…

• Bob Books
• Get Ready…Get Set…Read series
• Hello Reader. Phonics Fun series
• Hooked on Phonics. Easy Reader series
• Let's Read Together series
• Real Kids Reader series
• School Zone Start to Read series
• Word Bird series
• Wonders of Reading Level 1 Readers
• Wonder Books. Phonics series

Videos:

• Between the Lions series
  This series combines puppetry, animation and music to encourage children to read through phonics.
• Beginners' Reading with Phonics
  Certified reading specialist Barbara Phipps and her furry friend Snoothyguzzlesmort make learning to read fun with songs and stories.
• Learning to Read with Phonics series
  Mrs. Phipps presents music, humor, graphics, and colors to teach children phonics.
• Phonics
  Learn to read with songs and games with this program that teaches phonics rules.
• Ready for Phonics series
  A fun way to learn to read for children three to seven.

CD-Roms:

• Sound it out land phonics adventure: a musical adventure in reading
  Kids visit friendly animated talking characters, learn vowel and consonant sounds and their combinations, sing reading songs and play games that let them experience the thrill of reading on their own.
• Phonics 2
  Program features: 8 instructional Karaoke songs and 18 games; exciting graphics and animations with feedback and interactivity; "learn the words" feature allows the child to study the phonics of the words introduced in the songs and used in the games; the Super Star motivational, reward and tracking system.
• Kid Phonics
  Talking creatures, toe-tapping music, realistic sound effects and amazing animations encourage children to join the experience of understanding written words.
• Disney's Phonics Quest
  For ages 5-8. Six phonics based skill building activities.
• Jump Start Phonics
  Learners explore the phonics camp, playing games to earn merit badges, and present a special performance.
• Best Reading Ever
  Children master fundamental reading readiness skills as they join Huckle Cat and Lowly Worm and their Busytown friends to write stories for the brand new Storymobile.
• Clifford the Big Red Dog: Reading
  Children explore fun-filled locations in Clifford's neighborhood while learning letter recognition, phonics, and word building.
• Reading Blaster series
  Kids learn to read as they travel through galaxies on the Blastership. Teaches essential skills like: phonic sounds and letter blends, long and short vowels, rhyming patterns, building simple sentences and more.

Book and Cassettes:

• Phonemic awareness activities for early reading success : easy, playful activities that help prepare children for phonics instruction.
  Phonemic awareness is the understanding that words are made up of sounds. It deals with sounds in spoken words, whereas phonics involves the relationship between sounds and written symbols.
• Rock 'n' Learn Phonics series
  Entertaining songs and games teach the alphabet, sounds that letters make, and reading through the use of phonics, sight words, and contextual clues.
• Fun Phonics series
  Reading, writing, speaking, and listening activities incorporating the phonetic method.
• Funky Phonics
  A program to help teachers and parents teach phonics.
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Last updated: September 26, 2007