Puzzle Piece Phonics Teacher's Guide: Word Study for the Balanced Literacy Classroom, Second Grade

"Welcome to Puzzle Piece Phonics. We are very excited to share our love of word study with you. We are three teachers who developed this comprehensive resource when we worked together through the transition from the North Carolina Standard Course of Study to the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). It came about from a moment of near panic when we were sitting at a table in the library after school, and it seemed to hit us at the same time how much more the CCSS expected of students. We looked at each other and wondered, how are we ever going to get our kids from ?here? to ?there.' But then we called on our various strengths'our creativity, our curricular understanding, our practicality, and our can-do personalities'and generated Puzzle Piece Phonics"--