A new edition of the long-standing, bestselling classic for teaching phonics, this book is packed with strategies and developmentally appropriate, hands-on activities and a focus on how students use phonics to read and write, not just how much phonics a student knows.   KEY TOPICS:  Building the Foundation for Phonics They Can Use; Early Reading and Writing Activities; Phonological and Phonemic Awareness; Concrete Words, Letter Names, and Sounds; Making Words in Kindergarten; Early Reading Concepts: Assessment and Differentiation; Fluency; Fluency Activities; High-Frequency Words; Fluency Assessment and Interventions; Using Phonics and Spelling Patterns; Making Words to Learn Spelling Patterns; Rhyme-Based decoding and Spelling; Assessment and Coaching; Decoding, Spelling, and Building Meanings for Big Words; Decoding and Spelling Big Words; The Nifty Thrifty Fifty--50 Morphemic Key Words; Phonics and Spelling Interventions for Older Struggling Readers; Research and Terminology; The Theory and the Research--The Way Underlying the How; Phonics Terminology for Teachers   MARKET: Current and future classroom teachers.