Transcript word study, ps 48

What is Word Study?
Professional Development Study Group
PS 48 Summer Planning
July 20th --25th
What is Word Study?
Teaching students to use word analysis
strategies in reading and writing.
• Word Analysis -examining the parts of
words and patterns.
• Analogizing – recalling words already
learned (or parts of words) to read/write
new words. ( If you can spell “wait”, you can
spell…)
To be effective, Word Study must have
these components:
Teaching students spelling strategies
Helping students memorize high frequency words
Teaching students to generalize spelling patterns
Creating conditions that develop students’ spelling
consciousness
Communicating with parents about your methods.
How is it different from a traditional
spelling program?
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Traditional
Teacher provides the rule
to be learned.
Student learn specific
sounds/words
Students learn sets of
words and sounds
Grade level spelling lists
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Word Study
Student discovers the
rule
Students look for
patterns and exceptions
Students learn habits and
strategies
Developmental stages,
assessment driven
Developmental Stages
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Emergent
Letter Name-Alphabetic Stage
Within-Word Pattern Stage
The Syllables and Affixes Stage
Derivational Relations Stage.
Emergent Spellers
Age 1-7 Grades: pre-K to mid-1
• Writing looks like this:
• Activities
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Talking and reading to children
concept sorts develop vocabulary
picture sorts develop phonological awareness
alphabet games and activities develop letter recognition
font sorts and matching games establish upper- and lower-case
equivalence
o beginning consonant picture sorts secure initial phonemic
awareness.
Letter Name-Alphabetic Stage
Ages: 4--8 Grades: K to early 3
• Students spell this way:
M MN MIN
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J JV JRF DRIV
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T TP TEP
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BK BAK
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• Activities:
mine
drive
tip
back
– comparing and contrasting initial and final consonant sounds through
picture sorts
– word banks develop sight-word vocabulary
– hunt for words that begin or end the same
– sort pictures and words to contrast single consonant sounds with
consonant blends.
Within Word Pattern Stage
Ages: 6 -12 Grades: 1 to mid-4
• Students spell this way:
Seet
Nale nail
Roap
sete
rope
Crie
cry
Fownd found
Bote bought
Activities:
Sort pictures to contrast long and short vowels
Use teacher-made word sorts to examine long vowel patterns
Collect words in word study notebooks
Sort words by grammatical and semantic features
Conduct word hunts for specific long and complex vowel
patterns
• Play card games such as Homophone Rummy
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Syllables and Affixes Stage
Ages: 8 - 15 Grades: 3 to 8
students spell this way:
hopping
atend
capchur
Activities:
confussun
plesur
disposul
o Study consonant doubling, common suffixes, and
past tense endings in sorts and word hunts
o study common prefixes and suffixes
o interrelate spelling and meaning in word study groups
How do we assess spelling?
• What rules and what sight words is
the child using?
• What is the child “using but
confusing?”
• What is absent?
At what stage is this third
grader?
QuickTime™ and a
TIFF (LZW) decompressor
are needed to see this picture.
And what about this one?
QuickTime™ and a
TIFF (LZW) decompressor
are needed to see this picture.
The Staple of Word
Study: Sorting
Why? Leads to discovery,and…
– What we discover on our own is more
enduring.
• Concept Formation:
– You give some words, children come up with the
categories.
– Children find words, come up with the rule.
• Concept Attainment:
– You demonstrate the categories, children infer
from your categories what the rule is.
Let’s try a sort.
Questions
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When do we do Word Study?
What assessment/s will we use?
Do we want our word wall public or personal?
What structures & supplies will support us? Notebooks, folders
What dictionary skills are necessary?-- online and in hand
How can we differentiate?
What about Spanish word study?
The “Diane Snowball Approach to Word
Study”
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• Look At The Word
(so hard that when you close your eyes you can
still see the word
• Say The Word
• Spell The Word (Close Your Eyes – Let’s Spell Together)
• Cover the Word (spell the word over and over again)
• Write the Word (Get the White Boards, Markers – Open your eyes
and write the word)
• Check the word with your partner
Have-a-Go Spelling Checker
Word From My
Writing
Have-A-Go
Have-A-Go
Correct
Spelling
Copied Spelling
Teacher Resources for Word
Study
http://www.wordcentral.com/ (links and activities)
http://www.spellingtools.com/ (links, articles and activities)
http://wwwfp.education.tas.gov.au/english/wordstudy.htm (links, articles and
activities)
http://www.theschoolbell.com/Links/word_walls/words.html (word wall ideas)
http://davis.dadecountyschools.org/wordstudy/davis.htm (downloadable sorts)
http://teachers.santee.k12.ca.us/Carl/word_way.htm (all kinds of word work,
including downloadable sorts. Some great, some ok)
http://www.canteach.ca/elementary/songspoems1.html
http://www.poetry4kids.com/poem-60.html : Great selection of poems!!