Transcript Words Their Way PP

Words Their Way
Word Study for Phonics,
Vocabulary, and Spelling
Word Sorts
Phonics
Spelling
Vocabulary
• Instruction grounded in
assessment of student
knowledge
• Lessons designed
around observation and
experience with sound
and patterns
Brain research suggests
that students gain greater long
term memory when they are…
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Actively engaged
Manipulating ideas and objects
Using language to clarify and cement learning
Interacting with peers in directed academic
conversations
Brain research suggests
that students gain greater long
term memory when they are…
• Investigating
• Testing hypothesis/making predictions
• Recording and constructing their own learning
Mark Twain Shares
If teaching were telling,
we’d all be so smart we
could hardly stand
ourselves.
Using Word Sorts
• Word sorts demonstrate what students
know
• Word sorts help students generalize what
they know to what they are learning
TO SIT BESIDE / Assess
• Look for what students know
INDEPENDENT
• Using but confusing INSTRUCTIONAL
• Leave absent FRUSTRATIONAL
• TEACH TO WHAT IS USING BUT
CONFUSING NOT WHAT IS ABSENT
Donald Bear 2005
Word Study Lesson Plan Format
• Demonstrate
introduce sort, using key
words or pictures
• sort and check individually or with a
partner
• reflect
declare, compare, contrast
• extend
activities to complete at
seats, in centers, or at home:
sorts, games, cut and paste, expand word
study notebook, make word charts
Sorting is the essential word
study activity
• Hands-on
• Talking
• Compare/contrast
• Categorizing
• Thinking in action
LET’S SORT…….
Open and Closed Sorts
• Closed sorts are based on criteria
established by the teacher
• Open sorts are determined based on
observations and generalizations made
by students
• Words are intended to be sorted multiple
times
• The faster the student sorts words, the
greater mastery he has over the sort
Types of Sorts
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Sound sorts
Picture sorts
Word sorts
No-peeking sorts
Pattern sorts
Word sorts
Writing sorts
Meaning sorts (helps build vocabulary)
Open Sort
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Closed Sort: Animals / Non-animals
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The Basis of Word Study
Alphabetic – represented by the relationship
between letters and sounds
Patterns – identifies sounds that are spelled by
single letters and multiple letters
Meaning – groups of letters can represent
meaning directly
Synchrony of Literacy
Development
Alphabet
Pattern
Meaning
Emergent
Beginning
PreK to
middle of
1st
K to middle
of 2nd
1st to
middle of
4th
3-8
5 - 12
Emergent
Letter
Name Alphabetic
Within
Word
Pattern
Syllables &
Affixes
Derivational
Reading Stage
Grade Range
Spelling Stage
Transitional Intermediate Advanced
Relations
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Stages of Development
Stage 1
• Emergent Spelling
• Emergent Reading
• PreK to middle of grade 1
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Stages of Development
Stage 2
• Letter Name-Alphabetic Spelling
• Beginning Reading
• K to middle of grade 2
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Stages of Development
Stage 3
• Within Word Pattern
• Transitional Reading
• Grade 1 to middle grade 4
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Stages of Development
Stage 4
• Syllables and Affixes
• Spelling Stage
• Grades 3 - 8
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Stages of Development
Stage 5
• Derivational Relations
• Spelling Stage
• Grades 5 - 12
Animal Picture Sort
Bears
Monkeys
Dogs
Lay and Say….
Food, Clothes and Toys
Beginning Sounds
b,m
Word Families
Digraph sorts and a closer
look at blends:
Short and Long Vowels
CVC Patterns
Long Vowel Patterns
Sort Your Word Cards
Prefixes
re, un
Apply To Meaningful Text