Candace Meyers EDTL 7100 Annotated Bibliography
Squires, L. L. (2006). Long Vowels. Westminster, CA: Teacher Created Resources, Inc. 
	
	The Long Vowels by Lara L. Squires is a workbook full of long vowel worksheets and activities.  These worksheets and activities start by introducing the long vowel sounds, identifying words that contain a long vowel, reviewing the hunk and chunk that makes a long vowel sound and words that rhyme with a long vowel word.  Each worksheet or activity can be used to introduce and/or review the long vowel sounds.  I am going to use the activities to review the long vowels.  These activities will help the students recognize long vowels in their everyday reading along with correct spelling in their writing assignments. I am also going to use the test in the back of the book to assess my students on the long vowels before I move on to the next phonics skill.
Squires, L. L. (2006). Short Vowels. Westminster, CA: Teacher Created Resources, Inc. 

	The short vowels by Lara L. Squires is a workbook full of short vowel worksheets and activities.  These worksheets and activities start by introducing the short vowel sounds, word families, recognizing words with the short vowel sound and more.  Each worksheet and activity can be used to introduce and/review the short vowel sounds.  The book also offers a test practice at the end of the book.  I will give this assessment to my students to make sure they understand the short vowels before moving on to the next phonics skill.
Jacobson, J. (2003). Great Games for the Overhead, Reading. New York, NY: Scholastic Inc. 

	The Great Games for the Overhead, Reading by Jennifer Jacobson, provides fun games that teach phonics skills.  Nothing motivates students to practice skills more than a game.  These games review letter-sound recognition, short vowels, phonemic awareness, word families and more.  This resource is an engaging way to review skills with the students even realizing it.  This resource does not only work on phonics skills, it also works on students’ social skills and group collaboration.  My students have a hard time participating in a group and using appropriate manners and sportsmanship.  These games will allow my students to practice these social skills along with reviewing their phonics skills at the same time.
Dowd, V. A. (1999). The Phonics Dance Six Steps to Literacy in the Primary Grades. Virginia A. Dowd. 

	The Phonics Dance by Virginia Dowd gives teachers a kinesthetic way to improve their students phonics skills.  This book offers an outline on what grade you should introduce certain skills along with the time of the year.  In an addition to the outline, the author provides worksheets and activities that go along with each particular skill.  These worksheets and tips can drive your daily phonics instruction or used as a review tool.  These activities allow students to learn phonics in an entertaining way, dancing and singing.  I am using the instructional outline to drive my lesson sequence.  I am also using the worksheets to introduce each phonics skill.  The worksheets provide a visual aid for my visual learners and the phonics dance song will reach my kinesthetic and auditory learners. 

Chard, D., Coyne, M., Edwards, L., Good, R., Harn, B., Kame'enui, E., et al. (2002). Big Ideas in Beginning Reading [Web site]. Retrieved May 28, 2009, from the World Wide Web: http://reading.uoregon.edu/big_ideas/trial_bi_index.php
	The Big Ideas in Beginning Reading is a researched based instruction for K-3 reading website.  This website informs readers about alphabetic principle, vocabulary, comprehension, fluency, and phonemic awareness.  Within each subheading (listed above), the authors present information on what it is, why it’s important, how to teach it, and how to assess your students.   The tips and research based strategies will help me teach and assess my students on each component of phonics.
Beck, I. L., Farr, R. C., & Strickland, D. (2008). Story Town. Orlando, FL: Harcourt Inc. 

		This teacher resource is a book that offers interventions, stories, comprehension questions, activities and phonics skills to go along with each story.  This book provides the teacher with a fluency practice, writing activity and vocabulary review.  The majority of the stories are non-fiction to provide the students with background knowledge.  I will use this book to review phonics while reading.  I will also have the students complete the fluency practice on a weekly basis to enhance their reading fluency.

BBC Schools.(2009, April). Words and Picture.[Web site]. Retrieved May 28, 2009, from the World Wide Web: http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/wordsandpictures/index.shtml

		BBC Schools website offers parents and teachers many resources.  This website provides games, activities and worksheets to practice phonics which includes constant vowel constant words, constant clusters, long vowels, high frequency words and more.  This websites allows students to use technology to play engaging games to practice their phonics skills.  Having students play games on the computer allows them to get familiar with using the current technology for their future education and profession.  I will use this website by allowing the students play games.  I will also use it to print off worksheets and find engaging activities to practice their skills in a fun way that they will remember it.