Words, Letters, Sounds, and Big Books: A Beary Good Approach.

Cunningham, Patricia M.; Allington, Richard L.

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ERIC Number: EJ436768

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1991

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Words, Letters, Sounds, and Big Books: A Beary Good Approach.

Cunningham, Patricia M.; Allington, Richard L.

Learning, v20 n2 p91-92,94-95 Sep 1991

Describes how primary teachers can use decoding strategies within a literature-based, whole-language setting. A three-stage approach involves the book stage (real reading), the word stage (learning words), and the letter-sound stage (learning sounds). The article provides sample activities. (SM)

Descriptors: Class Activities, Creative Teaching, Decoding (Reading), Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence, Primary Education, Reading Aloud to Others, Reading Readiness, Story Reading, Teaching Methods, Whole Language Approach

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Guides - Classroom - Teacher

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Audience: Teachers; Practitioners

Language: English

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