Phonics First!

Wilma H. Miller, Ed.D., has written nearly 200 published journal articles on various aspects of reading and has authored numerous books on the topic, including Alternative Assessment Techniques in Reading & Writing, Ready-to-Use Activities & Materials for Improving Content Reading Skills, and The Reading Teacher's Survival Kit, all published by The Center for Applied Research in Education.

• 1 Discriminating Words with Different Initial Vowels/Consonants I 2 Discriminating Words with Different Initial Vowels/Consonants II3 Changing the Initial Consonant to the Next Alphabet Letter to Form a New Word4 Discriminating Words with Similar but Different Initial Consonants5 Identifying Words with the Same Rimes (Phonograms)6 Identifying Words with the Same Rimes (Phonograms) II7 Adding Initial Consonants to Make Words8 Matching Words with Similar Vowel Sounds9 Matching Words with Similar Vowel Sounds II10 Rhyming Words in Two Lines11 Selecting a Rhyming Word and Using It in Context I12 Selecting a Rhyming Word and Using It in Context II13 Adding Initial Consonants to Form New Words and Using Them in Context14 Adding Initial Consonants to Form New Words and Using Them in Context II15 Adding Initial Consonants to Form New Words and Using Them in Context III16 Adding Initial Consonant Blends to Form New Words and Using Them in Context17 Adding Initial Consonant Blends to Form New Words and Using Them in Context II18 Adding Initial Consonant Blends to Form New Words and Using Them in Context III19 Determining the Hard and Soft Sounds of s and c20 Determining the Hard and Soft Sounds of g21 Using Initial Consonants to Make a New Word in a Category22 Adding Consonant Digraphs to Form New Words and Using Them in Context23 Adding Consonant Digraphs to Form New Words and Using Them in Context II24 Adding Consonant Digraphs to Form New Words and Using Them in Context III25 Replacing Deleted Vowels in Sentences26 Replacing Deleted Vowels in a Reading Passage27 Replacing Deleted Vowels in a Reading Passage II28 Replacing Deleted Consonants and Consonant Digraphs in a Reading Passage29 Replacing Deleted Consonants and Consonant Blends in a Reading Passage30 Identifying Long and Short oo in Sentence Context31 Substituting Initial Consonants32 Identifying Consonant Blends, Consonant Digraphs, and Rimes33 Using Initial Consonants or Consonant Blends in Sentence Context34 Matching Homophones35 Selecting and Writing the Correct Homophones36 Selecting the Correct Homophone in Sentence Context37 Locating Words with Long Vowel Sounds in a Story38 Locating Words with Diphthongs in a Story39 Locating Words with Diphthongs in a Story II40 Locating Words with Long oo Sound in a Story41 Locating Words with the aw Sound in a Story42 Rhyming Definitions for One-Syllable Words43 Word Puzzles and One-Syllable Words44 Creating Compound Words45 Recognizing SyllablesAnswer Keys