Self-Paced Phonics: A Text for Educators

by Roger S. Dow, G. Thomas Baer

This book is designed to provide pre-service and practicing teachers with instruction that will assist them in developing a sound understanding of both the content and pedagogy of phonics. Faculty who already face content overload will find the book teacher-friendly and immediately applicable to web-based instructional models. The book uses sound learning principles by providing students with meaningful practice and immediate feedback through chapter practices, cumulative reviews, pre-tests, and post-tests. This book recognizes that, although phonics is only one of several word recognition techniques, it remains the one that is least understood by practicing and prospective teachers, with the ultimate goal of making phonics more easily understood and useable in the classroom. FEATURES :

Genres: Teaching

144 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 1990

Reviews

[Mandee]

I did not want to read this book because I learned to read at an early age and never really thought about how I learned to do so. Also I was nervous about phonics, because looking at my children's work it seemed complicated. However it really does give you the information that you need in order to better understand phonics. Now lets see if I can pass the test.

[Alberto]

Whenever I am forced to read an education textbook, I always adjust my expectations downward. Yet these texts never fail to disappoint anyway.

Self-Paced Phonics is allegedly 150 pages but contains less than 50 pages of useful text. Chapter 1 is an introduction devoid of content, chapter 2 is a pretest, chapter 3 is a glossary (although the book has a separate glossary). Each chapter ends with an extensive chapter review test AND a cumulative review test (e.g., chapter 4 has a 1-4 test, chapter 4 has 1-5 test). Chapter 9 is a post-test.

What's there is moderately useful, but there's almost nothing there. Definitely not worth $20.

[Beth]

This is a good text to learn the basics of phonics and phonemic awareness and the vocabulary that goes with it.