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The Literacy Link: A Multisensory Approach to Sound-Symbol Connections

$43.59  Spiral Bound
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Peggy S Northrup

  • The Literacy Link
  • The Literacy Link
    This approach uses hand symbols to teach students: rhyming, initial consonant identification, word families, phoneme blending and segmentations, articulatory features of each sound, phoneme-grapheme correspondence.

136 pages
Interest Age: 5 to 9
2002
ISBN: 9781586506889

Help students make solid connections between phonemic awareness, sound-symbol relationships, and letter formation. This approach teaches hand symbols for the 29 consonants, vowels, and digraphs.

Use these symbols to teach students

  • Rhyming
  • Initial consonant identification
  • Word families
  • Phoneme blending and segmentations
  • Articulatory features of each sound
  • Phoneme-grapheme correspondence

Also includes

  • Guidelines for determining the order of presentation of phonemes
  • Written and pictorial descriptions of each hand symbol
  • Lesson format and an optional lesson script
  • Instruction activities

Appendices include:

  • Rhyming test
  • The Yopp-Singer Test of Phoneme Segmentation
  • Elkonin boxes (a list of short-vowel books)
  • Reproducible rhyming cards and patterns
  • ABC book
  • Word family book

"Sections of this book are very useful and sections are not. I like the CD that accompanies book."
- Sarita,  Chicago, IL

"I really enjoy using the symbols in this program to help children learn their speech sounds. It is a visual way to help them remember where they form their sounds in their mouth. I use these symbols every day."
- Nicole R.,  Minneapolis, MN