Phonics, Rhythms, and Rhymes
The Phonics, Rhythms, and Rhymes Program builds upon many favorable comments we have received from classroom teachers, parents, administrators, and students studying in undergraduate and graduate programs. Some pre-readers need just a little extra assistance in learning to read; and other students are struggling with reading and need more intensive help from classroom teachers and specialists. This research-based book is an ideal teaching resource for pre-readers on the kindergarten level, and it is for all types of learners.
This particular edition is the combined student's and teacher's edition from Levels K in the Phonics, Rhythms, and Rhymes Reading Program. This approximate 200 page book is the combined teachers' and students' edition. Each of the two books are available separately in most book stores and contain approximately 100 pages each. Information and prices are also presented on www.PhonicsRhythmsRhymes.com. The Phonics, Rhythms, and Rhymes Reading Program is comprised of a separate book for students and teachers on the following grade levels: Level K Kindergarten, Level A 1st Grade, Level B 2nd Grade, Level C 3rd Grade, Level D 4th Grade, and Level I Intervention.
In the back of this book you will find that the teacher's edition provides an answer key which makes it possible to understand and to teach reading using a phonological awareness approach. This section is also filled with the best contemporary methods and strategies necessary for teaching Reading successfully. It begins by establishing an understanding of the elemental principles of phonemic awareness. It then explores letter-to-sound concepts necessary for Phonics. This book continues by etching a lasting memory of the vowel sounds and blending them to consonants. The blending is transformed into rimes which are easy for the teacher to lead in and the students to follow. Phonics, Rhythms, & Rhymes is an engaging medium for explicit instruction about specific spelling-sound correspondence and the alphabetic principle in general. Rhyming (riming, blending) provides opportunities for self-assessment and correction, as construction of sound in each new word is compared with the sounds of words that students know. It supports students who are struggling to recognize letters automatically by limiting the number of letters encountered at once, and emphasizes an ending sound which is vital in speaking and spelling Standard English words.
Meanwhile, the physical manipulation of letters on pages accommodate students who might otherwise have difficulty sustaining attention in whole-group instruction. While literacy in kindergarten is based on skill mastery of enunciation, identification, and writing letters of the alphabet; literacy in the 1st grade is based on blending consonants to vowels, and finals; literacy in the 2nd grade is based on skill mastery of blending consonants to vowels, digraphs, diphthongs, and finals; literacy in the 3rd grade is based on skill mastery of blending consonant blends to vowels, digraphs, diphthongs, and endings; and literacy in the 4th grade and Intervention is based on bringing both together. Our research-based program has developed an exciting and unique opportunity for children to learn to read.
Introduction to Phonics, Rhythms & Rhymes
Author Rasool D. Malik, Ed. D., takes Phonics to the next level by using a highly successful rhyming approach to sound blend letters into syllables and words. He has slated for print Levels K, A, B, C, D, and Intervention for students, teachers, and parents. Anyone can take this comprehensive material and teach a student(s) to read fast. This research-based program in its entirety is the most comprehensive Phonics resource known today. During the kindergarten school year a proper foundation starts with phonemic awareness, and the proper naming, sounding, and shaping of letters. The most important skills in learning to decode words are taught during the kindergarten year. With the help of these books students will be taught skills that include the proper vocalization of each consonant (C) and vowel (V) sound. During the 1st grade year the student is introduced to CVC words and enrichment exercises. The objective of the Phonics, Rhythms, and Rhymes Program is to develop skills within the school curricula, and within the learning scope and sequential growth of the child. In this edition, Level A literacy will be achieved through the teaching and skill mastery of blending consonants to vowels, and endings. Level B book will continue with blending consonants to vowels, vowel digraphs, diphthongs, and endings. In Level C you will find a continuation of the learning scope and sequence. However, in Levels D or Intervention you will find a remedial Phonics book for the older-mature student.
Reading success is based on the skill mastery of blending and in order to accomplish these objectives, for the more mature student, the lessons must be exciting, interesting, and rewarding while being void of extremely immature facsimiles. To reach the more mature student Phonics, Rhythms, and Rhymes has developed exciting activities called "Rhythms and Rhymes, Rime Time, and Rapping and Rhyming." Rhyming in rhythms gives remedial students another chance to learn the required skills to move on to the rewards of literacy. The goal of the Phonics, Rhythms, and Rhymes Intervention Program is to support teachers with the demands that necessitate a level of conformity and control of comportment that challenges regardless of how accommodating the classroom may be to children's individual nature and needs. Phonics, Rhythms, and Rhymes understands and was written to assist with these conformities. Meanwhile, preparing children to read is the top priority of Phonics, Rhythms, and Rhymes. Our method of rhyming letters systematically characterizes phonemes for students to grasp the fundamental principles of alphabetic literacy.
Our program recommends the use of MRP Publishers' "Test of Phonics Skills"
(ToPhS). ToPhS is a diagnostic Phonics assessment that measure Phonics skills through riming recognition, identification, and articulation of letter sounds, blends, and words. This test is used to place a student on the appropriate skill level in a literacy program. ToPhS utilizes only phonetically spelled words to inventory decoding skills. Learn more about it at www.PhonicsRhythmsRhymes.com.
Phonics, Rhythms, and Rhymes