Chalk Dust Runs Through My Veins

I just finished a week long workshop for Phonemic Awareness.  I really enjoyed the book study we did with Teaching Phonics in Context by David Hornsby & Lorraine Wilson.  The book has these beleifs:

That reading and writing of connected text takes priority over the traditional teaching of phonics

• That teaching and learning of phonics is always contained within, and subordinate to, genuine literacy events
• That children spend much more time reading and writing (in which they learn to applt their phonic knowledge) than they do in the actual study of sound-letter relationships

This book describes classrooms that shine with stories, read alouds, singing, rhyme, poerty, role-play, science, writing, etc.  The authors share ideas for reading, interpreting, enjoying picture books, sound-letter relationships as well as engaing in particular titles.  The book has valuable advice for using strategies with ELL students.

If you have a chance to read this book you will definetly see things in a different light.  I will be using this book when it comes to my lesson planning.