This practical self-study guide provides a strong foundation for phonemic awareness, phonics, and word analysis—and enables future and practicing teachers to update their knowledge, prepare for teacher certification, or study for competency tests. Learners are able to go through the text on their own and master the concepts and terminology of word analysis, and then demonstrate their knowledge by passing a short test on its contents. The book provides important information about a wide range of word analysis including phonic generalizations with high utility, morphemic and structural analysis, and using a dictionary. It also examines sound-letter relationships, the spelling patterns of language, and the language processing strategies useful to children. For teachers who are students of reading methods.