Phonetic Reading Books

The Phonetic Reading Books are great exercise to help build reading confidence through a series of progressively more challenging booklets. Beginning with words one one page and pictures on the opposite, students are invited to create their own booklets as well after mastering some of the ones available.

Materials

• Booklets which can be made in different ways.
  • Group 1 – Word Booklets
    • Picture on the left hand side and a word on the right hand side. (1 word and 1 picture per book.)
  • Group 2 – Shape Booklets
    • Booklets containing phonetic words with the same vowel sound.  The cover represents the first word.
  • Group 3 – Sentence Booklets
    • Booklets with one word from a sentence on each page.  The – cat – is – on – the – hat. The last page has the entire sentence on it. The front cover has a picture of the sentence.  The is one sentence per book.

Points of Interest

• Reading booklets for the first time.
• Seeing that the word matches the picture.
• Reading words with the same vowel sound.

Control of Error

• Teacher
• Child’s own reading ability.
• Pictures in the booklets.

Direct Aims

• To provide further practice in reading phonetic words.
• To provide feeling of accomplishment with further motivation for reading.

Indirect Aims

• Preparation for drama.

Aditional Exercises

• Exercises in other areas of the classroom.

Extensions

• Basic Phonetic Readers.
  • Montessori Readers – Simple 8 page readers.
  • Modern curriculum series.