From Unit Plan: Clifford Phonics Fun 

Recommended Books for Teaching with Clifford Interactive Storybooks

The Following Books and Box Sets are Available at The Teacher Store:

Clifford the Big Red Dog Shop
Grades PreK-2
Browse the Clifford favorite titles and supplemental materials in this specialty shop.

Clifford's Phonics Fun Pack #1 and Clifford's Phonics Fun Pack #2
Grades K-1
The books in these box sets feature adventures that reinforce values such as caring and sharing. Each book highlights the letters and sounds in the story, along with "words to learn" and "words to sound out."

My First Phonics Readers
Grades PreK-1
Twelve engaging decodable books offer intentional and sequential phonics instruction.

Phonics from A to Z
Grades K-3
Ready-to-use lessons, word lists, games, and learning center ideas build engaging, effective phonics practice into your reading-writing program.

Scholastic Decodable Readers: Individual Set B
Grades K-2
Controlled readers provide comprehensive phonics practice and encourage fluency.

Teaching With Favorite Clifford Books
Grades PreK-1
This professional book uses 15 popular Clifford books to teach kids about getting along with others, health and safety, communities, the seasons, and other themes.

For more early reading instructional books, browse The Teacher Store Phonics & Phonemic Awareness products.

Look for These Books in Your Library:  

The Bike Lesson by Stan and Jan Berenstain

Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain by Verna Aardema

Caps for Sale by Esphyr Slobodkina

Clifford's Puppy Days by Norman Bridwell

An Extraordinary Egg by Leo Lionni

The Fat Cat by Jack Kent

The Little Red Hen by Paul Galdone

New Shoes for Sylvia by Johanna Hurwitz

Titch by Pat Hutchins

The Troll Music by Anita Lobel

Whistle for Willie by Ezra Jack Keats

Web Sites to Support These Activities:

Building Language for Literacy
A research-based program that develops children's oral language and early literacy skills

Clifford the Big Red Dog
The main source for everything Clifford, from educational activities to video clips

The following Software Programs are available at The Teacher Store:

Interactive Phonics Readers
Grades K-2
This software program includes 72 carefully sequenced titles that help build fluency, improve comprehension, and strengthen reading skills. Through interactive story text, decoding and blending are modeled in every story. In addition, each story is accompanied by phonemic awareness, phonics, spelling, and timed assessment activities.

Phonemic Awareness Kit
Grades K-2
This complete 13-week training program in phonemic awareness includes a Teacher's Guide, reproducibles, puppets, books, picture cards, and more.

Phonemic Awareness Songs & Rhymes
(with audiocassette)
Grades PreK-2
A classic poem for each letter of the alphabet is included in print and audio form. Each poem is accompanied by phonemic awareness activities perfect for developing students' early reading skills.