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Greetings from the Land of OZ!

I am SO excited! Wowser! Do I have a treat for you! This is the very best site that I have ever seen for teaching those foundational skills for early reading success. I will have two articles to review this site, since there is so much great material included in the areas of phonemic awareness and sight words. I just couldn't squeeze it all into one article and do the site justice. Check it out! Click around the site. It is time well spent. The developers of the site want you to use their free materials. Here is what they say:

"These materials are provided under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. Essentially, this means you can do whatever you want with the resources, provided you leave the attribution hallmark on the resources. You may use these materials in the classroom, at home, as part of a for-profit tutoring business, or for any other purpose. You do not need to contact us for permission to use the materials. We want you to use them!"


Sightwords Website Review for Phonemic Awareness
The sightwords.com site is the very best site that I have ever seen for teaching those foundational skills for early reading success. Reviewed are the Phonemic Awareness components of the site, which include Phonemic Awareness Basics, Phonemic Awareness Games, and Phoneme Sound Pronunciation.

http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art37235.asp

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Connie

Connie Mistler Davidson, Reading Editor
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