Background
Hall, Dorothy Louise Parzyk was born on November 23, 1943 in Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. Daughter of Francis Stephen and Jeanne Anita (Mathieu) Parzyk.
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Facilitate meaningful, multilevel lessons for students in second grade using Making Words: Lessons For Home or School. This 64-page resource includes 50 reproducible hands-on activities in which children manipulate letter cards to construct words, sort words by spelling patterns, and use the sorted patterns to spell and read new words, and a reproducible sheet of instructions. --Making Words: Lessons For Home or School supports the Four-Blocks(R) Literacy Model and is a great addition to any classroom or homeschool.
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( Learn when and how to teach the Writing block using Wri...)
Learn when and how to teach the Writing block using Writing Mini-Lessons for Upper Grades for grades 4–6. This 160-page resource, addresses specific issues and skills that help students become better writers. These mini-lessons are divided into three sections for use throughout the year. Students learn about different writing genres, making decisions about what to write, paragraphing in stories and informational text, self/peer editing, spelling, using commas, and writing to a prompt. This book supports the Four-Blocks(R) Literacy Model.
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(This book offers monthly activities, sample lessons, and ...)
This book offers monthly activities, sample lessons, and word lists to help students become fluent decoders and spellers. Students will learn how to apply reading and writing strategies.
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( An active and innovative approach to making words that...)
An active and innovative approach to making words that teachers and their students have grown to love is finally here! Based on its highly successful parent text, Phonics They Use, this new grade-level series Making Words offers teachers a fresh multi-level activity and lesson series written for the kindergarten through fifth grade classroom. Pat Cunningham and Dottie Hall present classroom teachers with effective tools for strengthening phonics and spelling skills that encourage students to move beyond learning and into a world of word discovery. Each research-based volume includes a wealth of friendly, hands-on, manipulative activities that guide teachers in teaching the development of words--from phonemic awareness to spelling. In Making Words Fourth Grade, Pat and Dottie introduce fourth grade teachers to 50 lessons that teach all the prefixes, suffixes, and root skills included in most fourth grade curriculums. Each Making Words activity leads children through a systematic and sequential spelling curriculum. All lessons include practice with prefixes and suffixes as children stretch out words they are making and blend the letters to make new words. Because teaching children letter-sound relationships is easier than teaching children to actually use these letter-sound relationships, all lessons include a transfer step in which children apply the sounds they are learning to spelling new words. Making Words Fourth Grade is the best resource you can have on hand for motivating your students to learn words! • Features 50 fun and interactive lessons for building decoding and spelling skills. • Presents a concise method for involving students in the process of identifying common contractions and compound words and more complex vowel patterns within words. • Promotes student awareness of similarities in words that helps develop writing skills. • Includes reproducible take-home record sheets to help students build their vocabularies.
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( Learn when and how to teach the Guided Reading block us...)
Learn when and how to teach the Guided Reading block using Guided Reading the Four-Blocks(R) Way for grades 1–3. This 224-page book gives a glimpse into classrooms that use the Guided Reading model within a balanced literacy program. The book includes a list of materials needed, comprehension skills and strategies, and activities for before, during, and after reading a text. It also includes a list of children's literature. The book supports the Four-Blocks(R) Literacy Model.
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(Best Seller. In the tradition of Making Big Words, this p...)
Best Seller. In the tradition of Making Big Words, this popular sequel is filled with even more fun activities that encourage word knowledge. Each 15-20 minute lesson is an exercise in word exploration as students sort words by prefixes, suffixes, rimes, homophones, and other patterns. Terrific for honing spelling skills! 150 activities in all.
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( Facilitate meaningful, multilevel lessons for students ...)
Facilitate meaningful, multilevel lessons for students in grade 1 using Making Words: Lessons For Home or School. This 64-page resource includes 50 Making Words lessons and a reproducible sheet of instructions. It supports the Four-Blocks(R) Literacy Model and is a great addition to any classroom.
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( Use small groups without grouping students by their rea...)
Use small groups without grouping students by their reading abilities! This resource includes book club groups for author studies; thinking skills including previewing, predicting, summarizing, and concluding; social studies and science themes; and more. Supports the Four-Blocks(R) Literacy Model.
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( Young readers stay encouraged to learn when working wit...)
Young readers stay encouraged to learn when working with the latest edition of this valuable supplement. Including more activities, lessons, and reproducibles, it will show teachers significant results when used as part of a balanced literacy program. This book assists kindergartners in developing phonemic awareness, improving letter and sound recognition, and enhancing their vocabularies.
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( An active and innovative approach to making words that...)
An active and innovative approach to making words that teachers and their students have grown to love is finally here! Based on its highly successful parent text, Phonics They Use, this new grade-level series Making Words offers teachers a fresh multi-level activity and lesson series written for the kindergarten through fifth grade classroom. Pat Cunningham and Dottie Hall present classroom teachers with effective tools for strengthening phonics and spelling skills that encourage students to move beyond learning and into a world of word discovery. Each research-based volume includes a wealth of friendly, hands-on, manipulative activities that guide teachers in teaching the development of words--from phonemic awareness to spelling. In Making Words Third Grade, Pat and Dottie introduce third grade teachers to 70 lessons that teach the homophones, spelling changes, prefixes and suffixes that most third grade curriculums cover. Each Making Words activity contains rhyming words which help children review the more complex vowel patterns. Including homophones, prefixes, suffixes, spelling changes, and complex rhyming patterns allowing third graders at all levels to make progress in their spelling and decoding ability. Making Words Third Grade is the best resource you can have on hand for motivating your students to learn words! • Features 70 fun and interactive lessons for building rhyming and decoding skills. • Presents a concise method for involving students in the process of identifying homophones, prefixes, and suffixes and how these change the meanings of words in sentences. • Promotes student awareness of similarities in words that helps develop writing skills. • Includes reproducible letter tiles, record sheets for each lesson, and take-home sheets to copy, cut, and/or laminate. • Highlights a list of useful children's books to extend the Making Words lesson.
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( Stimulate kindergarten students' desire to learn to rea...)
Stimulate kindergarten students' desire to learn to read and write through multilevel activities! Also help increase their phonemic awareness and knowledge of letters and sounds, print or language concepts, and interesting words with this Four-Blocks(R) Literacy Model support classroom resource.
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( This innovative book combines phonics and spelling in 1...)
This innovative book combines phonics and spelling in 150 hands-on activities that will challenge children as they learn new words and sort them by letter patterns, prefixes, suffixes, and big word parts. With each lesson, students use pre-selected letters to make 15-20 words, starting with short words and building up to longer words. They will also discover that changing just one letter or the sequence of letters in a word can change its meaning. It also includes guidelines for creating lessons to suit your specific needs!
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( An active and innovative approach to making words that ...)
An active and innovative approach to making words that teachers and their students have grown to love is finally here! Based on its highly successful parent text, Phonics They Use, this new grade-level series Making Words offers teachers a fresh multi-level activity and lesson series written for the kindergarten through fifth grade classroom. Pat Cunningham and Dottie Hall present classroom teachers with effective tools for strengthening phonics and spelling skills that encourage students to move beyond learning and into a world of word discovery. Each research-based volume includes a wealth of friendly, hands-on, manipulative activities that guide teachers in teaching the development of words--from phonemic awareness to spelling. In Making Words Second Grade, Pat and Dottie introduce second grade teachers to 100 lessons that teach all the phonics, spelling, and phonemic awareness skills included in most second grade curricula. Each Making Words activity leads children through a systematic and sequential phonics curriculum. All lessons include practice with the phonemic awareness skills of segmenting and blending as children stretch out words they are making and blend the letters to make new words. Because teaching children letter-sound relationships is easier than teaching children to actually use these letter-sound relationships, all lessons include a transfer step in which children apply the sounds they are learning to spelling new words. Making Words Second Grade is the best resource you can have on hand for motivating your students to learn words! • Features 100 fun and interactive lessons for building phonemic awareness, phonics, and spelling skills. • Presents a concise method for involving students in the process of identifying phonological units and patterns within words. • Promotes student awareness of similarities in words that helps develop writing skills. • Includes reproducible letter tiles, record sheets for each lesson, and take-home sheets to copy, cut, and/or laminate. • Highlights a list of useful children's books to extend the Making Words lesson.
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( Write on! Writing the Four-Blocks(R) Way gives teachers...)
Write on! Writing the Four-Blocks(R) Way gives teachers of grades K–6 a glimpse into writing classrooms throughout the school year. This resource includes ideas for setting up a writing classroom, motivating students to write and keep writing, teaching reading through writing, supporting struggling writers, and teaching different genres. This 240-page book supports the Four-Blocks(R) Literacy Model and features lessons on editing, revising, sharing, and publishing.
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( An active and innovative approach to making words that...)
An active and innovative approach to making words that teachers and their students have grown to love is finally here! Based on its highly successful parent text, Phonics They Use, this new grade-level series Making Words offers teachers a fresh multi-level activity and lesson series written for the kindergarten through fifth grade classroom. Pat Cunningham and Dottie Hall present classroom teachers with effective tools for strengthening phonics and spelling skills that encourage students to move beyond learning and into a world of word discovery. Each research-based volume includes a wealth of friendly, hands-on, manipulative activities that guide teachers in teaching the development of words--from phonemic awareness to spelling. In Making Words First Grade, Pat and Dottie introduce first grade teachers to100 lessons that teach all the phonics, spelling, and phonemic awareness skills included in most first grade curriculums. Each Making Words activity leads children through a systematic and sequential phonics curriculum. All lessons include practice with the phonemic awareness skills of segmenting and blending as children stretch out words they are making and blend the letters to make new words. Because teaching children letter-sound relationships is easier than teaching children to actually use these letter-sound relationships, all lessons include a transfer step in which children apply the sounds they are learning to spelling new words. Making Words First Grade is the best resource you can have on hand for motivating your students to learn words! • Features 100 fun and interactive lessons for building phonemic awareness, phonics, and spelling skills. • Presents a concise method for involving students in the process of identifying phonological units and patterns within words. • Promotes student awareness of similarities in words that helps develop writing skills. • Includes reproducible letter tiles, record sheets for each lesson, and take-home sheets to copy, cut, and/or laminate. • Highlights a list of useful children's books to extend the Making Words lesson.
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( This book provides strategies to build intrinsic motiva...)
This book provides strategies to build intrinsic motivation for reading! It introduces children to all types of literature, encourages their reading interest, and provides instructional-level reading.
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( A valuable part of your students' balanced literacy die...)
A valuable part of your students' balanced literacy diet, this book focuses on common word patterns that allow young readers to instantly decode new words with similar builds and cross-check for accuracy. It includes activities, lessons, and reproducibles and will show teachers significant results while keeping students interested throughout.
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( An active and innovative approach to making words that...)
An active and innovative approach to making words that teachers and their students have grown to love is finally here! Based on its highly successful parent text, Phonics They Use, this new grade-level series Making Words offers teachers a fresh multi-level activity and lesson series written for the kindergarten through fifth grade classroom. Pat Cunningham and Dottie Hall present classroom teachers with effective tools for strengthening phonics and spelling skills that encourage students to move beyond learning and into a world of word discovery. Each research-based volume includes a wealth of friendly, hands-on, manipulative activities that guide teachers in teaching the development of words--from phonemic awareness to spelling. In Making Words Kindergarten, Pat and Dottie introduce kindergarten teachers, teachers of emergent second language learners, and teachers of students with special needs to Making Words lessons with step-by-step instructions for developing letter-sound relationships. Each Making Words activity in the book guides teachers in teaching young students how to blend letter sounds together to make a word; then segment or take off a letter and change the beginning letter(s) to make new words with the same spelling pattern or word family. Making Words Kindergarten is the best resource you can have on hand for motivating your students to learn words! • Features 50 fun and interactive lessons for building phonemic awareness, phonics, and spelling skills. • Presents a concise method for involving students in the process of identifying phonological units and patterns within words. • Promotes student awareness of similarities in words that helps develop writing skills. • Includes photocopiable letter tiles to copy, cut, and laminate for use in the classroom. • Highlights a list of useful children's books to extend the Making Words lesson.
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( An active and innovative approach to making words that...)
An active and innovative approach to making words that teachers and their students have grown to love is finally here! Based on its highly successful parent text, Phonics They Use, this new grade-level series Making Words offers teachers a fresh multi-level activity and lesson series written for the kindergarten through fifth grade classroom. Pat Cunningham and Dottie Hall present classroom teachers with effective tools for strengthening phonics and spelling skills that encourage students to move beyond learning and into a world of word discovery. Each research-based volume includes a wealth of friendly, hands-on, manipulative activities that guide teachers in teaching the development of words--from phonemic awareness to spelling. In Making Words Fifth Grade, Pat and Dottie introduce second grade teachers to 50 lessons that teach all the decoding and spelling skills included in most fifth grade curriculums. Each Making Words activity leads children through a systematic and sequential phonics curriculum. All lessons include practice with the decoding and spellings skills of segmenting and blending as children stretch out words they are making and blend the letters to make new words. Because teaching children letter-sound relationships is easier than teaching children to actually use these letter-sound relationships, all lessons include a transfer step in which children apply the sounds they are learning to spelling new words. Making Words Fifth Grade is the best resource you can have on hand for motivating your students to learn words! • Features 50 fun and interactive lessons for building decoding and spelling skills. • Presents a concise method for involving students in the process of identifying common contractions and compound words and more complex vowel patterns within words. • Promotes student awareness of similarities in words that helps develop writing skills. • Includes reproducible letter tiles, record sheets for each lesson, and take-home sheets to copy, cut, and/or laminate. • Highlights a list of useful children's books to extend the Making Words lesson.
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( An innovative, developmental approach to teaching phoni...)
An innovative, developmental approach to teaching phonics and spelling. This classroom resource contains lessons in which students select letters to build short and long words. It also includes effective tools for strengthening spelling and phonics skills. Making Words is a multilevel book that explores words and letter patterns while increasing vocabularies.
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( Keep students engaged with Learning Centers in Kinderga...)
Keep students engaged with Learning Centers in Kindergarten. This 176-page book includes suggestions for how to set up learning centers, arrange the room with appropriate furniture, determine the number of students at each center, move in and between centers, develop activities, and find materials. It supports the Four-Blocks(R) Literacy Model and includes ideas for center time and month-by-month activities for eight centers.
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( This excellent classroom resource features mini-lessons...)
This excellent classroom resource features mini-lessons that cover different ways to write, writing good sentences, deciding what to write about, starting an editor’s checklist, choosing titles, and what to do when you get stuck.” It is designed to take teachers through the school year and help ensure student success during the Writing Block. It also fully supports the Four-Blocks(R) Literacy Model.
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( Facilitate meaningful, multilevel lessons for students ...)
Facilitate meaningful, multilevel lessons for students in grade 4 using Making Words: Lessons For Home or School. This 64-page resource includes 50 Making Words lessons and a reproducible sheet of instructions. It supports the Four-Blocks® Literacy Model and is a great addition to any classroom.
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(This sequel to the best-selling Making More Words offers ...)
This sequel to the best-selling Making More Words offers 140 fun activities to help children learn new words and develop spelling skills. Each 15-20 minute lesson invites students to explore words, letter-sound relationships and letter patterns. Includes 10 "warm-up" lessons, thematic tie-ins for cross-curricular use, reproducible letter cards, take-home sheets, and more!
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Hall, Dorothy Louise Parzyk was born on November 23, 1943 in Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. Daughter of Francis Stephen and Jeanne Anita (Mathieu) Parzyk.
Bachelor of Science in Education, Worcester State College, 1965. Master of Education, University North Carolina, Greensboro, 1983. Chemical Abstracts Service, University North Carolina, Greensboro, 1986.
Doctor of Education, University North Carolina, Greensboro, 1991.
Teacher 1st grade Town of Holden, Massachusetts, 1965-1967. Teacher 1st and 2d grades Old Richmond Elementary School Winston-Salem (North Carolina)-Forsyth County Schools, 1967-1971, teacher 1st grade Old Town Elementary School, 1971-1983, reading/curriculum coordinator, 1986—1999. Director Four Blocks Center Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, since 1999.
Visiting instructor Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, 1983—1986. Consultant schools, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Georgia, Missouri, Wisconsin, Ohio, Kentucky, Michigan, Delaware, New York, Illinois, Indiana, Utah, Texas, Oklahoma, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Washington, Oregon, California, Arizona, Kansas, Mississippi, Canada, Mexico, Colombia, South Africa.
( An active and innovative approach to making words that...)
( An active and innovative approach to making words that...)
( An active and innovative approach to making words that ...)
( An active and innovative approach to making words that...)
( An active and innovative approach to making words that...)
( An active and innovative approach to making words that...)
( Stimulate kindergarten students' desire to learn to rea...)
( Use small groups without grouping students by their rea...)
( This excellent classroom resource features mini-lessons...)
( This innovative book combines phonics and spelling in 1...)
( A valuable part of your students' balanced literacy die...)
( This book provides strategies to build intrinsic motiva...)
(This sequel to the best-selling Making More Words offers ...)
( Write on! Writing the Four-Blocks(R) Way gives teachers...)
(This book offers monthly activities, sample lessons, and ...)
( Facilitate meaningful, multilevel lessons for students ...)
( Facilitate meaningful, multilevel lessons for students ...)
( Facilitate meaningful, multilevel lessons for students ...)
( Learn when and how to teach the Guided Reading block us...)
( Learn when and how to teach the Writing block using Wri...)
( Young readers stay encouraged to learn when working wit...)
(Included are 584 word cards, alphabet tab dividers, and a...)
( An innovative, developmental approach to teaching phoni...)
( Keep students engaged with Learning Centers in Kinderga...)
(Good Apple Softcover with 146 pages. Grades 3-6 - Languag...)
(Best Seller. In the tradition of Making Big Words, this p...)
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Member International Reading Association (local president 1993-1994), Phi Delta Kappa, Delta Kappa Gamma (local president since 1996).
Married Michael Stephen Hall, June 30, 1967 (separated 1989). Children: Michelle Stephanie, Suzanne Marie.