Nifty-Thrifty

I found the material from chapter five from our textbook to be the most helpful in creating activities for teaching phonics. While some of the explanations were lengthy and could be confusing, I liked the gist of what each activity was helping the children accomplish. I would definitely like to use some of these teaching strategies in the future in my classroom. my favorite activity was the Nifty-Thrifty-Fifty. This activity is a good way to help children spell and understand larger words by considering the prefix and suffix. I can see this particular lesson being used with older children, probably third or fourth grade.