Transcript Words Their Way

Words Their Way
Professional Development
Services 2011
Why Pearson?
The only author-approved training available on the researchbased text, Words Their Way: Word Study for Phonics,
Vocabulary and Spelling Instruction
Pearson Provides:
• Professional development
• Classroom materials
• Texts
• Online Resources
• Coaching and modeling
Words Their Way Foundational Training
All training is based on the same approach and the principles in the
Words Their Way core text.
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Words Their Way™ Training
for Teachers (3 days onsite)
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Words Their Way™ Training
for Teachers Virtual Institute
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Words Their Way™ Online
Course for Teachers
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My Online Workshop: Words
Their Way™
1. Words Their Way Training for Teachers
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3-day training
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The only Author-approved training using Words Their Way™
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Uses the best-selling Words Their Way™ text based on 30
years of research
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Identify stages of spelling development and characteristics of
students at each stage.
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Learn to analyze data from the Words Their Way Qualitative
Spelling Inventory
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Select instructional strategies to plan lessons that meet
student needs
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Understand how to manage word study instructional routines
2. Words Their Way™ Training for Teachers
Virtual Institute
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Cost-effective and schedulefriendly
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4 live expert-led sessions,
discussion boards, final project
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8 self-paced modules with video
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Q&A with Author and experts
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12 sessions over 4 weeks
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Learn, Apply and Reflect
instructional model
3. Words Their Way™ Online Course
Self-paced, interactive, professional
development
Personal training—self-paced practice on
your own time.
Individual instructional path—tailored path
based on grade level or role in school.
Interactive practice—classroom video,
student writing samples, assessments,
and activities.
Immediate feedback—assessment that tracks
and guides mastery of the Words Their
Way™ approach to word study.
This course won the prestigious 2011
Software & Information Industry Association
Award for the Best Professional
Development Solution.
4. My Online Workshop: Words Their Way™
COMING SOON!
Module 1: Word Study Instruction,
Synchrony and Principles
Module 2: Spelling Inventories
Module 3: Approaches to Sorting
Module 4: Emergent
Module 5: Letter-Name Alphabetic
Module 6: Within Word Pattern
Module 7: Syllables and Affixes
Module 8: Derivational Relations
Module 9: Organizing Instruction and
Communicating with Parents
Follow up Training: Coaching and
Modeling
In this job-embedded professional development, a Pearson
consultant works directly with teachers, coaches, or leaders
to analyze data, review lessons, and address areas of
student need.
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Technical Assistance/Consultation
○ Data Analysis
○ Grouping
○ Differentiated instruction
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Lesson Study
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One-to-One Coaching
Capacity Building: Inter-rater Reliability
Measure the impact of WTW implementation on teacher
practice and student achievement.
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Pre/Post surveys
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Observation tool
– The indicators were created with WTW authors
– This is currently being validated. Training to measure the
level of WTW implementation and measure and monitor
implementation is coming soon.
After training, districts
can:
Collect their own WTW
data or use the tool for
coaching
Words Their Way™: Word Study in Action
C2012 Developmental Model
Revised
C2005 Levels K, A-E; whole
group
C2009 with English Learners
Words Their Way™: Word Study in Action
Program Components
Comprehensive Teacher Resource Guide
• Common Core Edition (with CCSS companion)
• Revised Edition (without CCSS companion)
Stage-specific Student Notebooks (5 stages)
Comprehensive Teacher Resource CD-ROM
Comprehensive Whiteboard Activities DVD-ROM
Stage-specific Book Big of Rhymes (first 3 stages)
Stage-specific WTW Libraries (first 3 stages)
Words Their Way™: Word Study in Action
NEW! Whiteboard Activities
Introduce the sort with
rhymes
Student sorting
Writing Sort
Words Their Way™: Word Study in Action:
Teacher’s Guide, Progress Monitoring
Words Their Way™: Word Study in Action:
Onsite Training
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Words Their Way™: Word Study in Action Product
Implementation Essentials Half-day or full-day training
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Implementing WSIA Developmental Model with Reading
Street 2011
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Implementing WSIA with GHGR and QuickReads
Job-embedded Coaching
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Technical Assistance/Consultation
– Data Analysis
– Grouping
– Differentiated instruction
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Lesson Study
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One-to-One Coaching
Words Their Way Professional Texts
The core Words Their Way™ book
provides the tools needed to carry
out word study instruction, while
complementing the use of any
existing phonics, spelling, and
vocabulary curricula.
Online PDToolkit for Words Their Way™
now available with the fifth edition.
Words Their Way PDToolkit: 5e and ELs
• Over 300 Sorts & Games
(printable and for whiteboards)
• Assessment Tools
• Videos
• Create your own Sorts
Words Their Way Supplemental Texts
Vocabulary Their Way
Vocabulary Their Way™: Word
Study with Middle and
Secondary Students
• Research-tested ideas for helping
students use word patterns to
puzzle out meaning to content
area vocabulary.
• Assessment information to help
teachers gauge where to begin
instruction
• Hands-on opportunities for
teachers to keep students’
attention and interest
Words Their Way with Struggling Readers
Word Study for Reading,
Vocabulary, and Spelling
Instruction, Grades 4 -12
• Hands-on, accessible approach to
help your struggling middle
grades and secondary students
catch up with their peers
• Determine student needs
• Provide strategies to guide each
student toward success in
reading, content area vocabulary,
and spelling
Words Their Way with English Learners 2e
Words Their Way with English
Learners: Word Study for Phonics,
Vocabulary, and Spelling
Determine what students bring with them
from their home languages
Decide where instruction in English
orthography should begin
Determine how best to move these
students through their development and
help them master their new language.
New online PDToolkit for
Words Their Way™ with
English Learners available
with the second edition.
ELL Supplemental Sort Books
Words Their Way™
Emergent Sorts for
Spanish-speaking
English Learners
Words Their Way™
Letter-Name
Alphabetic Sorts for
Spanish-speaking
English Learners
Questions?