Phonics Practice Readers Teachers Guide Series A, Set 3

by Modern Curriculum Press

Let your students' success build on success! Use these phonetically controlled stories to help students thoroughly learn, practice, and apply phonics-independently and with growing confidence. Features • Features 140 Readers of about the same difficulty (10 in each set). • Gives students a sense of accomplishment in completing an entire book in 8 pages. • Provides decoding practice, application with a phonetically controlled vocabulary. • Checks comprehension with a sequencing activity at the back of each book.

Paperback

First published June 1, 1986

About the author

Modern Curriculum Press, Inc., (MCP) was an educational materials publisher founded in Berea in 1963 by Alice Lorenz-Baer to provide reading programs for kindergarten through third grade stressing the teaching of phonetic word-attack skills, a strategy which had been almost completely discarded since the 1920s for the sight-word approach. A reaction among teachers in favor of the older method enabled MCP to begin doubling its sales yearly from the beginning. In 1971 it merged with Reardon, Baer & Company, the STRONGSVILLE educational publishing concern of Baer's husband, F. William Baer. MCP grew into a sixty-five worker operation and opened an office in Toronto. Some twenty corporations made approaches to acquire the company, which was finally sold in 1972 to Esquire, Inc. Mrs. Baer continued to manage the company until her retirement in 1975.

Esquire in turn was bought by Gulf-Western, which evolved into Paramount Communications, one of the industry's leading publishers of books and educational materials. In 1994, Paramount was acquired by Viacom, which subsequently moved MCP operations to New Jersey and Indiana. MCP became an imprint of Simon and Schuster, Viacom's U.S. publishing unit. In 1998, Simon and Schuster sold its educational, professional, and reference units, including MCP, to Pearson PLC, a London-based publishing firm. Pearson incorporated MCP into a new operation, called Pearson Education. As of 2006, textbooks bearing the MCP imprint continued to be published by Pearson.

Reviews

[Tanya · Rating 4 out of 5]

I have to say that this entry is kind of a joke. I told my husband it sounded silly to have exactly 1000 books on my list, so he suggested I add "Glub Glub" which I read with my kindergartener last night. I told him there was no way it was on Goodreads, so I did a search to prove it, and there it was!
So while I'm at it, I think these phonics readers do a great job of teaching sound combinations. The pictures are interesting (though my daughter regularly notices that the text descriptions are inconsistent with the illustrations - for example in "Glub Glub" it talks about the clear blue water, but in the picture it looks muddy green). Still, I haven't found any phonics set I like better, and I'm glad Madeline's elementary school uses this program.

[Kathleen]

glub, glub is my favorite

[Jamie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Actually only read Hunk of Junk so far... Liked it, it was a good phonics book for first readers. :) And very creative.

[Beverly Kennett · Rating 5 out of 5]

Finally, a book with my name in it and it actually sounds like the book is about me. Bev finds a bunch of junk that she loves and transforms it into something beautiful.