1. December 6, 2012 Erin McClure CMS Edited by L. Dreyer 12/19/12

2. Independent Reading Writing Balanced Literacy Interactive Writing, Shared Writing, Word Work minilessons, conferences, and small group work Word Work minilessons, conferences, and small group work whole group and small group lessons differentiated practice Embedded in GR, IRA, Morning Message, Shared Reading

3. Word Work Letter Study Phonemic Awareness activities Phonics activities Word Study (ex. Words Their Way (Bear at al.) Month by Month Phonics (Cunningham & Hall) Vocabulary Work

4. Selecting Teaching Points and Goals  CCSS  Continuum Phonics, Spelling, and Word Study section  Continuum Guided Reading section

5. Florida Center for Reading Research  http://www.fcrr.org http://www.fcrr.org Source for phonics/vocabulary activities Ability to search by CCSS/grade level Alternative to printing on paper: screen shot the pieces of the activity to be used on the Smart Board

6. Month-by-Month  Grade-level specific systematic, multilevel instruction Includes activities and recommendations such as – ○ Making Words Activities ○ Guess the Covered Word Suggestions ○ Word Wall Suggestions and Activities ○ Read Aloud Recommendations to support word and language learning

7. Cross –checking practice to help students become good at using meaning, beginning letters, word parts, and word length to figure out words.

8. NIFTY THRIFTY FIFTY 4 th & 5 th grade -Most common prefixes, suffixes, and roots -Common spelling changes -Supports reading and writing

9. un- non- anti- semi- ex- friend hope depend finish pose -less -able -ment -er -ee

10. Making Words  Students make a variety of words using only certain letters  Students are challenged to use all letters to create the “mystery word”  Ideal for reinforcement of word patterns http://www.studyzone.org/testprep/ela4/wwword s1.html http://www.studyzone.org/testprep/ela4/wwword s1.html

11. Word Mover  Readwritethink.org (need Shockwave player installed)  iPad app

12. Word Walls  Visual scaffolds/color coded  Activities and talk = conversational scaffolds  Collections are cumulative – add words over time Be choosy about the words you decide to put on the word wall. They need to fit one of the following: -high frequency words - have a pattern that will help students spell many other words

13. Be a Mind Reader Be a Mind Reader! 1. ________________________ 2. ________________________ 3. _______________________ 4.________________________ 5. ________________________ The Secret Word is: ________________ Begin with general clue and narrow clues until there is only one possible choice by number 5.

14. Helpful Websites/Apps  www.fcrr.org www.fcrr.org  www.vocabularyaz.com www.vocabularyaz.com  Word Mover (App and website) Word Mover (App and website)  www.popplet.com www.popplet.com  http://www.studyzone.org/testprep/ela4/ww words1.html http://www.studyzone.org/testprep/ela4/ww words1.html Making words  www.readwritethink.org www.readwritethink.org Student interactives for K-5 in all literacy area

15. Words Their Way  Word Sorts and activities based on student’s spelling stage  Spelling Stages Emergent Letter-Name Alphabetic Within Word Pattern Syllables and Affixes Derivational Relations