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Teaches students of all ages the basics of phonics with a time-tested, foolproof method

This tenth edition of the best-selling book teaches reading using sounds and spelling patterns. These sounds and patterns are introduced one at a time, and slowly built into words, syllables, phrases, and sentences. Simple step-by-step directions begin every lesson. Although originally designed for K-2 emergent readers, this award-winning book is also successfully being used with adolescent and adult learners, as well as second language learners and students with learning disabilities. Wise and humorous proverbs encourage virtues such as patience, perseverance, honesty, kindness, compassion, courage, and loyalty.

Offers help for all students including those with learning disabilities or very short attention spans
Includes extensive examples, word lists, and practice readings that are 100% decodable
Uses a multisensory method that benefits all learning styles

This bestselling, much-loved book offers a complete approach to teaching phonics and reading for a fraction of the cost of other programs.

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Phonics Pathways

Clear Steps to Easy Reading and Perfect Spelling, 10TH EDITION

This tenth edition of the classic Phonics Pathways teaches students of all ages the rudiments of phonics and spelling using a time-tested, practical, and foolproof method. New to this edition are pictures illustrating every sound introduced, lessons in dividing multi-syllable words, and nonsense word reviews to ensure learning.

Written in an easy-to-use format (with help from Dewey the Bookworm^®), Phonics Pathways is organized by sounds and spelling patterns. The patterns are introduced one at a time and slowly built into syllables, words, phrases, and sentences.

Printed in a large lay-flat format for easy photocopying, Phonics Pathways is filled with illustrative examples, word lists, and practice readings that are 100 percent decodable. While appropriate for K2 emergent readers, this award-winning book has also been used successfully with adolescent and adult learners, as well as second language learners and students with learning disabilities such as dyslexia.

Phonics Pathways is ideal for school, tutoring, and home use and includes wise, humorous proverbs that encourage virtues such as patience, perseverance, honesty, compassion, courage, and loyalty.

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"Phonics Pathways is the best book on the market for parents, teachers, or tutors who want to teach early reading skills. It provides research-based, explicit, systematic phonics and multi-syllable instruction in easy, self-guided lessons."
CATHERINE FROGGATT, R.N., Michigan State Director, The National Right to Read Foundation

"Phonics Pathways is a wonderful teaching tool! Every kindergarten and first grade teacher should have a copy in their hands. If this were the case, intervention in the grades that follow would be a thing of the past."
PAMELA M. BARRET, instructional coach and consultant

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Phonics Pathways

Clear Steps to Easy Reading and Perfect Spelling, 10TH EDITION

This tenth edition of the classic Phonics Pathways teaches students of all ages the rudiments of phonics and spelling using a time-tested, practical, and foolproof method. New to this edition are pictures illustrating every sound introduced, lessons in dividing multi-syllable words, and nonsense word reviews to ensure learning.

Written in an easy-to-use format (with help from Dewey the Bookworm^®), Phonics Pathways is organized by sounds and spelling patterns. The patterns are introduced one at a time and slowly built into syllables, words, phrases, and sentences.

Printed in a large lay-flat format for easy photocopying, Phonics Pathways is filled with illustrative examples, word lists, and practice readings that are 100 percent decodable. While appropriate for K 2 emergent readers, this award-winning book has also been used successfully with adolescent and adult learners, as well as second language learners and students with learning disabilities such as dyslexia.

Phonics Pathways is ideal for school, tutoring, and home use and includes wise, humorous proverbs that encourage virtues such as patience, perseverance, honesty, compassion, courage, and loyalty.

PRAISE FOR PHONICS PATHWAYS

"Phonics Pathways is the best book on the market for parents, teachers, or tutors who want to teach early reading skills. It provides research-based, explicit, systematic phonics and multi-syllable instruction in easy, self-guided lessons."
CATHERINE FROGGATT, R.N., Michigan State Director, The National Right to Read Foundation

"Phonics Pathways is a wonderful teaching tool! Every kindergarten and first grade teacher should have a copy in their hands. If this were the case, intervention in the grades that follow would be a thing of the past."
PAMELA M. BARRET, instructional coach and consultant

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Jossey-Bass; 10th edition (May 17, 2011)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 288 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1118022432
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1118022436
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.5 x 0.7 x 10.8 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #71,297 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Dolores G. Hiskes has authored a wide variety of nationally acclaimed teaching materials, including her best-selling book Phonics Pathways. She has tutored reading for over thirty years and trained teachers from all over the world. Well-established in professional journals and a winner of numerous honors, Hiskes publishes Phonics Talk, a free online newsletter about teaching reading, which can be found at www.dorbooks.com.

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Customers find this phonics book effective for teaching kids to read, with straightforward lessons and plenty of practice for new skills. They appreciate its easy-to-follow structure, great spelling rules, and comprehensive phonics content. The book includes fun games, and one customer notes it helps students reach 4th grade reading levels. However, the pacing receives mixed feedback, with one customer finding it boring.

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55 customers mention "Teaching kids to read"55 positive0 negative

Customers find the book effective for teaching kids to read, with straightforward lessons that help students progress to reading at a solid 4th grade level. One customer notes it provides plenty of practice for each new skill.

"...it with an adult ESL student, who feels this system is simpler and more effective than any book she's ever tried...." Read more

"...Again he just turned 6 and he is reading at a solid 4th grade level. We haven't completely finished the book even, we have about 30 pages left...." Read more

"...But his reading has improved dramatically, and his spelling is much better than expected for his diagnosis...." Read more

"...My son is learning a lot and it is helpful in teaching him long vowels and the other things 100 easy lessons doesnt teach, but oh so boring...." Read more

34 customers mention "Ease of use"34 positive0 negative

Customers find the book easy to use, with lessons that are simple to follow, and one customer notes that it follows a sequence that makes sense for struggling readers.

"...Now, I'm using it with an adult ESL student, who feels this system is simpler and more effective than any book she's ever tried...." Read more

"...We have worked through the book consistently but without rushing. When he had difficulty with a page we would do a smaller portion...." Read more

"...We are still only about half way through the book, but it is very thorough and follows a sequence that makes sense for struggling readers...." Read more

"...Some of the early stuff was easy and went quickly, but it helped him learn the methods and start off with positive experience...." Read more

23 customers mention "Spelling"19 positive4 negative

Customers appreciate the book's approach to spelling, highlighting its comprehensive coverage of spelling rules and its effectiveness in teaching phonetic reading, with one customer noting that students can decode new words with relative ease.

"...it was just the thing to train these kids' ears to hear and pronounce English better...." Read more

"...He can decode new words with relative ease, including multi-syllable words...." Read more

"...But his reading has improved dramatically, and his spelling is much better than expected for his diagnosis...." Read more

"...Regardless, this is a wonderful book, well organized, easy enough to follow. It builds on the previous lessons learned." Read more

12 customers mention "Phonics content"12 positive0 negative

Customers appreciate the phonics content of the book, finding it to be a phenomenal program that helps students better understand letter sounds.

"...All in all, a phenomenal phonics program." Read more

"...This an excellent book to kids understand and learn phonics and learn to read...." Read more

"Fantastic phonics program. I am a homeschool mom and did a lot of research into phonics...." Read more

"...purchased this book to help my second grader and 3 year old better understand phonics and have been very happy with it so far...." Read more

10 customers mention "Games included"10 positive0 negative

Customers like the games included in the book, finding them fun and engaging.

"...My spelling is improving as I go through each page! The examples, games and reviews have given me success!..." Read more

"...He LOVES the games that are included and is now picking up books independently. I am extremely grateful to Ms. Hiskes for creating this product!" Read more

"...The games are fun and Dewey's little sayings are cute. My daughter asks what he's saying all the time lol. I highly recommend!" Read more

"...It have games activities, word families, decoding, rhyming and so much more and it make it easy to teach reading...." Read more

7 customers mention "Pacing"2 positive5 negative

Customers find the pacing of the book monotonous and repetitive, with one customer noting it's not motivating enough for reluctant readers.

"...vowels and the other things 100 easy lessons doesnt teach, but oh so boring. It's boring for me and its super boring for him...." Read more

"...It's a distraction from the topic at hand. That said, while it bothers me, it hasn't actually distracted my little reader." Read more

"...Bought as a second hand. Very well presented and practically new!!!" Read more

"...We skipped to around page 50- it is a bit repetitive and has unnecessary fillers...." Read more

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Lisa W.
Works with my ESL students
Reviewed in the United States on August 23, 2024
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I got this book when I had to teach ESL to students who had big vocabularies in conversation but couldn't read well at all. Clearly they had been taught vocabulary but not phonics! It's important to learn both and these students are a good example of that. Anyways, for the first 6 weeks (1 2-hour class a week) we hammered away at the first lesson, the short vowel sounds. I used the games provided in the appendix and lots of repetition, and it took that long to master those. I refused to move forward until they had them down, but the rest of the lessons went much faster and I saw clear results after 16 weeks. I feel it was just the thing to train these kids' ears to hear and pronounce English better. Now, I'm using it with an adult ESL student, who feels this system is simpler and more effective than any book she's ever tried. I always wanted to learn how to teach phonics, and this books lays it right out. Just follow the yellow brick road...

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Reviewed in the United States on July 17, 2018
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This has been the best investment I have ever made in my life. I started this program with my oldest son 3 years ago when he was 3. He is now 6 and has just completed Kindergarten. We homeschool and have used this as his main reading program. He is an excellent reader. I receive comments about how amazing of a reader he is at least weekly. Again he just turned 6 and he is reading at a solid 4th grade level. We haven't completely finished the book even, we have about 30 pages left. He can decode new words with relative ease, including multi-syllable words.

We have worked through the book consistently but without rushing. When he had difficulty with a page we would do a smaller portion. Occasionally we have needed to review some previous concepts, we just go back to the relevant page(s) and refresh. He now loves reading and can read almost anything that catches his eye.

When he was young we would do fairly small segments and any time we could act out a word, we would. Words like, log, lad, nap, mop, hop, etc. He hasn't loved every day we've done it, but on the days it's particularly grueling, we just needed to incorporate some extra fun or motivation. I did things like, motivating treats (raisins or small candies), acting out the words, say a line then race across the room and back, etc. I also let him read while standing which helped him focus and enjoy it more.

My only, and very minor at that, complaint is with Dewey, the bookworm. He is incredibly cute, and has some excellent sayings... but they aren't attuned to the reading level of the child, or to the comprehension level of the child. It would be more effective if the kids had a chance at reading his sayings before they were about halfway through the book. It would also be less frustrating if I didn't have to take a half hour to explain some of them because of how they are worded or how abstract they are.

All in all, a phenomenal phonics program.

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MyBryan
Finally the help my son needed!
Reviewed in the United States on September 1, 2022
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My son was diagnosed with dyslexia and learning disabilities in reading and writing. We struggled trying to get him to read, using many curriculums and books. We started using this book 2 years ago. He moves very slow, often taking many days to complete a page. But his reading has improved dramatically, and his spelling is much better than expected for his diagnosis. The Dr. actually commented that what they usually see in dyslexia is that the sounding out of words is worse than sight word reading, but my son actually showed the opposite and did great on the phonics! We are still only about half way through the book, but it is very thorough and follows a sequence that makes sense for struggling readers. My son still doesn't enjoy reading lessons, but he doesn't hate them as much. He likes the little caterpillar in the lessons that gives lines of encouragement. Also a huge positive with this book is that it doesn't separate into age or grade levels anywhere on the book, and my son is very sensitive about that, so seeing that a curriculum say level "1" or whatever it is, is very triggering to him and causes him to shut down completely. That problem is non-existent with Phonics Pathways. I really can't say enough good things about this book. I strongly recommend this to ANYONE struggling with reading OR spelling! A suggestion I have for kids who are having a hard time moving through lessons: I make a chart with 20 or 30 boxes (adjust for your student) and let him color one in for each page he completes. Once the boxes are all filled in, we go out for an ice cream "party" to celebrate his accomplishment. He really looks forward to these and likes to look at his chart and count to see how many more boxes he needs to get his party.

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Melissa
Good tool but Monotonous
Reviewed in the United States on June 10, 2017
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I used the book 100 Easy Lessons to initially teach my son to read and he loved it and was very successful with it. It kept him interested, because it presented fun little stories with the learning concepts. The thing I don't love about that book is it doesn't teach long vowels, digraphs and blends, although it does give you ideas at the end of the book for teaching those things yourself. I did some research to see what I could use to teach him those things and read a review someone left on-line, about ordering this book as a follow up and starting around page 50, which is what we did. My son is learning a lot and it is helpful in teaching him long vowels and the other things 100 easy lessons doesnt teach, but oh so boring. It's boring for me and its super boring for him. We could handle it at fist but my son is slowly starting to dread it. The book is just page after page of reciting words (that mostly don't make sense together) and then having a little "spelling test" at the end of each page. I do feel like he has become a better reader because of this book I just wish it wasn't so monotonous. If you have a hesitant reader, I would either take it really slow in this book or find something a little more captivating.

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Chris Andersen
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Reviewed in Canada on April 15, 2022
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This is an excellent book, and I would highly recommend it for anyone assisting someone who’s struggling with reading or spelling!

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lorie c
It's been worthy to go back to basics.
Reviewed in France on May 13, 2017
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Very interesting for non English speakers like me , who want to go back to basic knowledge. It takes time but you feel more and more self confident and willing to keep learning. I'm glad I purchased it.

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Michelle G.
Overall very good book
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 3, 2016
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Excellent book. I am using it to teach adults to read and spell and its excellent. it is not as patronising as some of the other books I have seen can be, and so adults enjoy using it to help them with learning to read. Step by step exercises to follow which gives a lot of structure to what you are trying to teach. I also use it with students to help them to become better spellers. I would highly recommend this book.

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Shano
Excellent
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 30, 2016
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I found it really easy with my kids my son find every book hard but This one he found easy to read the word I would recommend it to all my friends and family

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lcbiegel
I absolutely love this book
Reviewed in Canada on September 2, 2015
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I absolutely love this book! It is the best homeschooling resource for 'easy reading and perfect spelling' that I have ever found! Excellent lay-flat binding. I highly recommend this book to homeschooling families, and anyone else interested in learning the fascinating 'logistics' of vowels and consonants.

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