Elementary Phonics: A Three-Year Phonics and Vocabulary Building Program

Elementary Phonics: A Three-Year Phonics and Vocabulary Building Program

Make learning phonics entertaining and exciting with jump-out-of-your-seat phonics games, charming stories, and hands-on word building activities. This three-year phonics and vocabulary building program expands upon Florence Akin's Word Mastery to accommodate instructors of all experience levels. Akin honed the leveraged instructional methodology in her own elementary classroom, incorporating four types of activities: 1) Ear Training, 2) Tongue Training, 3) Eye Training, and 4) Word Building. Sonja Glumich is a scientist, educator, wife, and mother who is inspired by Charlotte Mason's living works approach to homeschooling. She is the founder of Under the Home (underthehome.org), an online homeschool curriculum featuring low-cost courses in art history, poetry, prose, music, history, science, studio art, mathematics, reading, and Shakespeare. Sonja and her husband homeschool their three school-aged children using the Under the Home curriculum as featured in this book. Sonja graduated magna cum laude with bachelor's degrees in biology, chemistry, and computer science and later earned a master's degree in information technology. She has also completed education classes and student teaching leading to certification to teach secondary science. Sonja has experience teaching children of all ages, from preschool to graduate school, including as a middle school and high school science public school teacher. She has also served as an Adjunct Professor for Syracuse University. She currently works as a computer scientist for the Air Force Research Laboratory. Her current research and education interests are security systems engineering, cyber vulnerability assessments, and everything homeschooling.