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70 Wonderful Word Family Poems: A Delightful Collection of Fun-to-Read Rhyming Poems With an Easy-to-Use Lesson Plan for Teaching the Top 35 Word Families

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by: Beth Handa, Jennifer Wilen

 : 70 Wonderful Word Family Poems: A Delightful Collection of Fun-to-Read Rhyming Poems With an Easy-to-Use Lesson Plan for Teaching the Top 35 Word Families

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Binding: Paperback
Brand: Scholastic
Dewey Decimal Number: 372.61
EAN: 9780439201070
ISBN: 0439201071
Item Dimensions: 300
Label: Teaching Resources
Manufacturer: Teaching Resources
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 80
Publication Date: March 01, 2002
Publisher: Teaching Resources
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Studio: Teaching Resources




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Editorial Review:

Product Description:
Set kids on the road to reading success with 70 reproducible, kid-pleasing poems—two for each of the top word families! Each poem gives kids plenty of opportunity to see a group of words from the same word family in action. A fun way to get kids to recognize the most common spelling patterns! Includes teaching tips, extension activities, and student worksheets. For use with Grades K-2.




Customer Reviews
Average Rating:  out of 5 stars

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - not dumbed down
See the excerpts at Amazon to help you make your own decision. The cover has samples of poems. One of the excerpts gives some of the instructions for using the book. This is a creative and entertaining way to teach some phonics. It doesn't teach all of the word families but it does a great job with the ones it does teach. The delightful poems also help with memory skills because the poems are easy to remember. This gives a point of reference. On my website, there is a lot about memory skills for ... Read More



Rating: 1 out of 5 stars - Not what I hoped for.
I expected a book of poems that helped to teach the top 35 word families would have a vocabulary that was more in line with K-2 readers. Many of these poems will not be within the reading ability of children who are learning word families. I was promised many examples of the word families in each poem. Many of them only have a few family words, certainly not enough to help emergent readers gain any practice, especially with the higher vocabulary used through out the rest of the poem. Some of the ... Read More




 

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