Author: Habakkuk Educational Materials

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Published: 2020-02-06

Total Pages: 42

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Teaching Children All about Consonants (Reading Book 2) not only introduces students to the 21 consonant letters and the sounds they make, but also helps them to distinguish between the sounds of hard and soft c (e.g., cat, city) and hard and soft g (e.g., go, giant). They will learn all about consonant blends (e.g., the cl in clean, pr in pretty, sn in snow, and tw in twins); the consonant digraphs (e.g., the ch in chick, sh in shop, th in these or thing, and ng in long); and the syllabic consonants (l as in little, m as in blossom, n as in seven, and r as in littler). Special pages are even provided to familiarize students with rhyming words (including those that form word families) and to help them learn about syllabication and the proper way to divide a word. Please note that Habakkuk Educational Materials also offers a similar book to teach students about vowels titled Teaching Children All about Vowels (Reading Book 1).Most topics are introduced with one or more colorful pages having examples of the consonant sound (such as consonant blends, consonant digraphs, or syllabic consonants), as well as any definitions or rules that are associated with it. The colorful introduction pages are followed by reproducible worksheets that serve to reinforce the rules from the introduction pages. Some of the worksheets were designed to be used by the teacher for direct instruction purposes on the classroom screen, while others can be used for individual practice and to assess student learning. If you are using a worksheet for direct instruction, you might position it under a Smart Document Camera or a similar device and complete it with a colored pen. (Check the footnote of the page to see if it is reproducible. The practice test mentioned below may also be reproduced for non-commercial, classroom use.) Keys to many of the worksheets are provided at the end of the book.Most of the pages in this book take only a few minutes of instruction time. It is recommended that you introduce one new page to the students daily and that you spend at least one day a week briefly reviewing pages you have already studied. This will help students to retain the information and will also help to prepare them for the corresponding unit test designed specifically for this book. A practice test is included at the end of the book. The same practice test is also available online as a computer-based test, as is also a regular test. (Pricing and details on how to access the computer-based tests are provided on page 31.) For more information or to contact Habakkuk Educational Materials, please visit our website at https://habakkuk20.wixsite.com/mysite.