Bob Algozzine is a professor in the Department of Educational Leadership at the University of North Carolina and project codirector of the U.S. Department of Education-supported Behavior and Reading Improvement Center. With 25 years of research experience and extensive firsthand knowledge of teaching students classified as seriously emotionally disturbed, Algozzine is a uniquely qualified staff developer, conference speaker, and teacher of behavior management and effective teaching courses. He is active in special education practice as a partner and collaborator with professionals in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg schools in North Carolina and as an editor of several journals focused on special education. Algozzine has written more than 250 manuscripts on special education topics, including many books and textbooks on how to manage emotional and social behavior problems.
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
1. Introduction
Organizational Framework
Using Assessment to Inform Instruction
Incorporating Basic Early Literacy Skills (BELS) Into the Literacy Block
Teaching Effectively
Early Literacy Instruction in Perspective
Building Early Literacy Skills
2. Letter Naming Fluency
Activity 1: Distinguishing Between Letters and Non-Letters
Activity 2a: Distinguishing Letter Forms (Tall Letters)
Activity 2b: Distinguishing Letter Forms (Short Circular Letters)
Activity 2c: Distinguishing Letter Forms (Short Stick Letters)
Activity 2d: Distinguishing Letter Forms (Short Hump Letters)
Activity 2e: Distinguishing Letter Forms (Hanging Letters)
Activity 3: Distinguishing Same and Different Letters
Activity 4a: Distinguishing Uppercase and Lowercase Letters
Activity 4b: Distinguishing Uppercase and Lowercase Letters (Using American
Sign Language)
Activity 4c: Distinguishing Uppercase and Lowercase Letters (Using Sense of
Touch)
Activity 5: Distinguishing Letters/Sounds (Using Sense of Touch)
3. Initial Sound Fluency
Activity 6a: Silly Sentence s-Part 1
Activity 6b: Silly Sentences-Part 2
Activity 7: Picture/Sound Charts
Activity 8a: Letter/Sound Books-Part 1
Activity 8b: Letter/Sound Books-Part 2
Activity 9: Sound Collages
Activity 10: Sound Identification Game
Activity 11: Picture/Sound Identification Game
4. Phoneme Segmentation Fluency
Activity 12: "Stretching" Sounds in Words
Activity 13a: Elkonin Boxes-Identifying Sounds with Fingers
Activity 13b: Elkonin Boxes-Pushing Sounds
Activity 13c: Elkonin Boxes-Sound Boxes
Activity 13d: Elkonin Boxes-Transition Boxes
Activity 13e: Elkonin Boxes-Letter Boxes
5. Nonsense Word Fluency
Activity 14: Distinguishing Letters/Sounds (Using Sense of Touch)
Activity 15a: Sound/Letter BINGO
Activity 15b: Letter/Sound BINGO
Activity 16: Sound Identification Game
Activity 17: Making and Breaking using Magnetic Letters
Activity 18a: Blending (VC)
Activity 18b: Blending (CVC)
Activity 19: Sorting Beginning Consonant Sounds
Activity 20: Sound Line
Activity 21: Word Wheels
Activity 22: Flip Books
Activity 23: Slide-a-Word
Activity 24: Word Scramble
Activity 25: Word Maker
Activity 26: Roll The Dice
Activity 27: Match!
Activity 28: Ringo!
Activity 29: Go Fish
6. Oral Reading Fluency
Activity 30a: Reading Punctuation
Activity 30b: Reading Punctuation: Period, Exclamation Point, Question Mark
Activity 31: Reading Text in Phrases to Promote Fluency
Activity 32: Reading Fine and Bold Printed Text as Author Intended
Activity 3: Reading fine and bold printed text as author intended
Activity 33: Reading Dialogue
References and Resources
Index
