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<p>ABOUT THIS BOOK vii</p> <p>ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xii</p> <p>INTRODUCTION xiii</p> <p>ABOUT PHONICS PATHWAYS 1</p> <p>GETTING STARTED 3</p> <p>TEACHING AID: SHORT-VOWEL STICK 4</p> <p>GAME: SHORT-VOWEL SHUFFLE 5</p> <p>SHORT-VOWEL SOUNDS 10</p> <p>GAME: Short-Vowel Review (Bingo) 16</p> <p>TWO-LETTER BLENDS (Eyerobics) 17</p> <p>GAME: THE TRAIN GAME 20</p> <p>GAME: STARSEARCH 37</p> <p>THREE-LETTER WORDS 39</p> <p>GAME: BAG THE BUGS 48</p> <p>PYRAMID 52</p> <p>/K/ = C-, K-, -CK 53</p> <p>TWO-CONSONANT ENDINGS 58</p> <p>-Y SUFFIX 70</p> <p>TWIN-CONSONANT ENDINGS 74</p> <p>FLUENCY REALITY CHECK: Real and Nonsense Words 75</p> <p>CONSONANT DIGRAPH ENDINGS: -sh, -th, -ch, -tch 76</p> <p>FLUENCY REALITY CHECK: Consonant Digraph Nonsense Words 83</p> <p>SIMPLE LONG-VOWEL SOUNDS 90</p> <p>FLUENCY REALITY CHECK: Short- and Long-Vowel Nonsense Words 109</p> <p>SUFFIXES 110</p> <p>SUFFIX SPELLING CHART 115</p> <p>MULTISYLLABLE WORDS 117</p> <p>/k/ = -ic, -ick 118</p> <p>DIVIDING MULTISYLLABLE WORDS 119</p> <p>PLURAL, POSSESSIVE, AND X 121</p> <p>CONSONANT DIGRAPH BEGINNINGS: sh-, ch-, wh-, th-, qu- 123</p> <p>TWO-CONSONANT BEGINNINGS: bl-, fl-, pl-, cl-, gl-, sl- 133</p> <p>FUN AND GAMES 138</p> <p>TWO-CONSONANT BEGINNINGS : sm-, sn-, st-, sp-, sc-, sk- 139</p> <p>R-MODIFIED VOWELS 149</p> <p>LONG-VOWEL DIGRAPHS 159</p> <p>/S/ = ce, ci, cy: /Ç/ = ei 173</p> <p>VOWEL DIPHTHONGS: /oi/ = oi, oy; /ou/ = ou, ow 176</p> <p>FLUENCY REALITY CHECK: /j/ = -ge, gi-, & -dge Nonsense words 184</p> <p>-Y, -IE PLUS SUFFIXES 185</p> <p>-F = -VES 186</p> <p>NEW VOWEL SOUNDS 188</p> <p>/ÔO/ = oo, oul, u; /O/ = au, aw, al, all, o 189</p> <p>THREE-CONSONANT BEGINNINGS 195</p> <p>SHORT-VOWEL SPELLING PATTERNS 199</p> <p>/Ĕ/ = ea, a, ai; /Ĭ/ = y, ui; /Ŏ/ = a; /Ŭ/ = o, ou, oo, a 199</p> <p>SCHWA 203</p> <p>CONTRACTIONS 206</p> <p>SILENT LETTERS: -le, k, w, l, b, t, h 208</p> <p>SILENT GH: /Î/ = igh; /O/ = ough, augh; /Ô/ = ough; /ou/ = ough 213</p> <p>/Â/ SPELLING PATTERNS: /Â/ = ei, eigh, ey, ea 216</p> <p>S = /z/, /zh/, /sh/; /F/ = ph, gh; /K/ = ch 219</p> <p>ANOTHER R-MODIFIED VOWEL SOUND 224</p> <p>A SPELLING GRAB BAG 226</p> <p>Homonyms, Homophones, Homographs 226</p> <p>Multisyllable Words with Suffixes 228</p> <p>-ce, -ge; -able, -ible 229</p> <p>PREFIXES: pre-, sub-, re-, auto-, un-, dis-, inter-, super- 230</p> <p>MORE SUFFIXES: -tion, -sion, -able, -ness, -ful, -less, -ment 233</p> <p>COMPOUND WORDS 236</p> <p>BUILDING BLOCKS 237</p> <p>APPENDIX A: REFERENCE & SUPPLEMENTAL PRACTICE 243</p> <p>Spelling Strategies 243</p> <p>Index to Spelling Rules and Patterns 244</p> <p>Spelling & Pronunciation Chart 245</p> <p>Plural Spelling Chart 247</p> <p>Suffix Spelling Chart 248</p> <p>Student Achievement Chart 249</p> <p>Student Progress Notes 250</p> <p>Vision and Motor Coordination Training Exercises 251</p> <p>Pyramid 253</p> <p>APPENDIX B: GAMES AND ACTIVITIES 255</p> <p>Hot Tips 255</p> <p>The Short Sheet of Vowels 256</p> <p>The Shoo-Fly Shuffle (a.k.a. Short-Vowel Shuffle) 257</p> <p>The Train Game 258</p> <p>Blendit! (Similar to Bingo) 260</p> <p>StarSearch 261</p> <p>Bag the Bugs 262</p> <p>REVIEWS AND RESULTS 263</p> <p>ABOUT THE AUTHOR 266</p>

<p><b>The Author</b> <p>Using her materials, <b>DOLORES G. HISKES</b> has implemented school and community tutoring programs, such as the highly touted YES Reading Center in Palo Alto, CA. She has tutored reading for over thirty years, and trained teachers from all over the world. Well-published in professional journals and a winner of numerous honors, she publishes a free e-newsletter about teaching reading, called <i>Phonics Talk</i> (www.dorbooks.com).

<p><b>Phonics Pathways</b> <p><b>Clear Steps to Easy Reading and Perfect Spelling</b>, 10TH EDITION <p>This tenth edition of the classic <i>Phonics Pathways</i> teaches students of all ages the rudiments of phonics and spelling using a time-tested, practical, and foolproof method. New to this edition are pictures illustrating every sound introduced, lessons in dividing multi-syllable words, and nonsense word reviews to ensure learning. <p>Written in an easy-to-use format (with help from Dewey the Bookworm^®), <i>Phonics Pathways</i> is organized by sounds and spelling patterns. The patterns are introduced one at a time and slowly built into syllables, words, phrases, and sentences. <p>Printed in a large lay-flat format for easy photocopying, <i>Phonics Pathways</i> is filled with illustrative examples, word lists, and practice readings that are 100 percent decodable. While appropriate for K–2 emergent readers, this award-winning book has also been used successfully with adolescent and adult learners, as well as second language learners and students with learning disabilities such as dyslexia. <p><i>Phonics Pathways</i> is ideal for school, tutoring, and home use and includes wise, humorous proverbs that encourage virtues such as patience, perseverance, honesty, compassion, courage, and loyalty. <p><b>P<small>RAISE FOR</small> <i>P<small>HONICS</small> P<small>ATHWAYS</small></i></b> <p> <p>"<i>Phonics Pathways</i> is the best book on the market for parents, teachers, or tutors who want to teach early reading skills. It provides research-based, explicit, systematic phonics and multi-syllable instruction in easy, self-guided lessons."<br/> <b>—CATHERINE FROGGATT, R.N.</b>, Michigan State Director, The National Right to Read Foundation <p>"<i>Phonics Pathways</i> is a wonderful teaching tool! Every kindergarten and first grade teacher should have a copy in their hands. If this were the case, intervention in the grades that follow would be a thing of the past."<br/> <b>—PAMELA M. BARRET</b>, instructional coach and consultant

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