Words Their Way

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Words Their Way

• Word Study for Phonics, Vocabulary, and Spelling

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Word Sorts

• Instruction grounded in assessment of student
  knowledge
• Lessons designed around observation and
  experience with sound and patterns

• Phonics
• Spelling
• Vocabulary

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Brain research suggests that students gain
greater long term memory when they are

• Actively engaged
• Manipulating ideas and objects
• Using language to clarify and cement learning
• Interacting with peers in directed academic
  conversations

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Brain research suggests that students gain
greater long term memory when they are

• Investigating
• Testing hypothesis/making predictions
• Recording and constructing their own learning

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• Mark Twain Shares
• If teaching were telling, wed all be so smart we
  could hardly stand ourselves.

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Using Word Sorts

• Word sorts demonstrate what students know
• Word sorts help students generalize what they
  know to what they are learning

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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
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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

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Sorting is the essential word study activity

• Hands-on
• Talking
• Compare/contrast
• Categorizing
• Thinking in action
• LETS SORT.

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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

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Types of Sorts

• Sound
• Pattern
• Meaning
• Word sorts
• Picture sorts
• No-peeking sorts
• Writing sorts
• Speed sorts

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oo
ow
ou
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Open Sort
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Closed Sort Animals / Non-animals
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10 Principles Of Word Study

• 1. Look For What Students Use But Confuse
  (instructional level, miss 2 or more features)
• 2. A Step Backward Is A Step Forward (begin where
  students can have some success)
• 3. Use Words Students Can Read (always introduce
  words for recognition and understanding)
• 4. Compare Words That Do with Words That
  Dont (dont hide exceptions to the rules / use
  the non-examples)
• 5. Sort By Sounds and Sight (make comparisons)

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10 Principles Of Word Study

• 6. Begin With Obvious Contrasts (cvc cvce)
• 7. Dont Hide Exceptions (oddballs, crazy
  column, ?)
• 8. Avoid Rules (guide to generalizations and
  analogies)
• 9. Work For Automaticity ( ex. - speed sorts)
• 10.Return To Meaningful Text (Word Hunts)

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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

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Synchrony of Literacy Development
Alphabet Pattern
Meaning
Emergent Beginning Transitional Intermediate Advanced
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 Relations
Reading Stage Grade Range Spelling Stage
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Words Their WayStages of Development

• Stage 1
• Emergent Spelling
• Emergent Reading
• PreK to middle of grade 1

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Words Their WayStages of Development

• Stage 2
• Letter Name-Alphabetic Spelling
• Beginning Readers
• K to middle of grade 2

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Words Their WayStages of Development

• Stage 3
• Within Word Pattern Spellers
• Transitional Readers
• Grade 1 to middle grade 4

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Words Their WayStages of Development

• Stage 4
• Syllables and Affixes Spellers
• Intermediate Readers
• Grades 3 - 8

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Words Their WayStages of Development

• Stage 5
• Derivational Relations
• Advanced Readers
• Grades 5 - 12

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Animal Picture Sort
Bears
Dogs
Monkeys
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Lay and Say.
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Food, Clothes and Toys
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Beginning Sounds b,m
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Word Families
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Digraph sorts and a closer look at blends
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Short and Long VowelsCVC Patterns
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Long Vowel Patterns
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Sort Your Word Cards
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Prefixes re, un
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Apply To Meaningful Text
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