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Sound Wizard presents 18 strategy-based card games to help children learn and practice these phonological awareness skills:

• Rhyme recognition and production
• Syllable segmentation, deletion, and blending
• Sound identification and matching
• Sound segmentation and blending
• Sound-symbol correspondence
• Sound manipulation

Sound Wizard has large (3” x 4 ¾”), sturdy playing cards (338 cards in all!) that include a balanced mix of consonant and vowel sounds. Includes 6 decks of durable playing cards, rule book, 4 pawns, score card, 4 dice, 77 blank stickers, and 100 chips. The manual contains developmental information and pretesting ideas, along with ideas for making the games simpler or more challenging. Parents and paraprofessionals will appreciate these easy and motivating games. Help the children you work with become WIZARDS with phonological awareness as they play the entertaining Sound Wizard card games!

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Acquisition of phonological awareness is the single most important factor in learning to read and spell. Research clearly shows that children and adults who possess this skill are generally better readers and spellers. The Sounds Abound Program translates the latest reading research into a practical classroom curriculum.

This valuable program teaches phonological awareness in a sequenced hierarchy. You’ll target these key skills:

• rhyme recognition, completion, and production
• syllable segmentation and deletion
• initial sound recognition and production
• sound segmentation
• sound deletion
• sound substitution and addition
• sound blending
• phoneme-grapheme correspondence

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Get ready, get set . . . Kadimah! These twenty-one reading readiness lessons teach the Hebrew letters and their sounds. Units on Shabbat, Classroom, Animals, Pesach, and Jewish Life introduce key words and core oral vocabulary through a variety of imaginative, fun-filled exercises. Created as the pre-primer for Z'man Likro, Kadimah! can be used as the readiness program for any Hebrew primer. Specially designed support materials, including Kadimah letter/picture cards and Z'man LaShir, a musical tape and songbook, enrich young students' Hebrew classroom experience.

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This two-volume primer program systematically teaches Hebrew decoding through twenty carefully sequenced and engaging lessons. Includes structured Reading Pages for practice and evaluation, as well as creative worksheets for reinforcement. Dictionary included in each volume.

• Teaches consonants and vowels using Key Words.
• Key Words represent important and familiar Jewish concepts.
• Drill words drawn from blessings, prayers, and traditional texts.
• Optional vocabulary component uses living language tied to students' experiences.
• Hebrew root word system introduced as an aid to comprehension.
• Phonics skills introduced step-by-step, building on previously introduced material.
• Opportunities for writing practice and independent seatwork activities
• A variety of strategies engages all types of learners.
• Easy evaluation tools.

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Fourteen original, sing-along songs reinforce the vocabulary in Kadimah! and Z'man Likro. In addition, you can purchase the songbook, which has music, guitar chords, and lyrics (Hebrew text and transliterated Hebrew, with English translations) for the songs. Click here to visit her website.