PRACTICAL AND RELEVANT: Teaching suggestions throughout the text provide the practical activities future teachers crave. about the text includes coverage of commercial phonics programs that students will be expected to know in their first job interview.

CURRENT TRENDS: This text responds to and maps current trends in teaching phonics--. from whole language to Reading First adopting direct, explicit phonics programs; and several state legislatures have mandated that phonics be included in teacher education programs.

A FREE PHONICS TUTORIAL web site for students includes definitions and examples of basic phonics concepts followed by self-tests. Students are given the opportunity to practice and solidify their own grasp of phonics skills before presenting these concepts in the classroom.

BRIEF, AFFORDABLE: The book is an ideal, brief, affordable supplementary or stand-alone text for Elementary and Early Childhood Education Reading Methods courses, or courses dedicated to phonics.