1. Instructional Leadership
Differentiated
Skills Block
with
Words Their Way
Instructional Leadership
in Literacy Series
Saint Paul Public Schools The Center for Curriculum, Instruction and Professional Development

2. Vision for
District-wide focus on deepening the implementation of the Skills Block supported with Bookshop Phonics (K & 1), Bookshop Phonics Intervention (gr.2-5), Words Their Way for Word Study, Vocabulary, and Spelling Instruction (gr. 2-5).
Deepen implementation of small group instructional strategies aligned to students’ stages of reading development: Oral Language Reading, Small Group Shared Reading, Guided Instructional Reading, Reciprocal Reading.
Use DataZone as an assessment management, instructional planning, and progress monitoring tool. Focus on instructional implications of student data on a daily basis.
Job-embedded professional development provided by building literacy coaches and district Reading Instruction Specialists Support literacy-focused PLCs with the Data-Teams Process.
Development of the Instructional Leadership in Literacy Series to support principals with data analysis and literacy instruction look-fors.

3. Skills Block Links to Readers Workshop and Writers Workshop
Kindergarten and Grade 1: Mondo Bookshop Phonics
Grades 2-6: Words Their Way and Bookshop Phonics Intervention for identified students.

4. Session Goals
Analyze the data points that are used to differentiate instruction in Words Their Way.
Identify the key elements of Words Their Way and view a demonstration lesson.
Discuss structures that support the implementation of Words Their Way.

5. DataZone
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6. Linking Words Their Way to the Common Core Standards

7. Words Their Way Developmentally driven approach to word study
Links word study to the texts students are reading
Provides a systematic scope and sequence of word-level skills: Alphabet ---Pattern---Meaning
Provides multiple hands-on opportunities to manipulate word features that allow students to generalize beyond isolated, individual examples to entire groups of words that are spelled the same way
Effective and engaging vocabulary instruction

8. The Difference Bookshop Intervention Phonics
Short-term intensive instruction (80 Lessons or less)
Instruction determined, based on student need (students grouped at lessons 1, 21 or 41)
Includes phonemic awareness, letter recognition, phonics and word recognition
Immediately applied to connected text
Words Their Way
Students move through 3 stages of spelling--each stage can take 2 years
Teacher directed lesson, partner practice and independent practice
Instruction determined, based upon developmental stage of spelling
Phonics, vocabulary and spelling instruction

9. Key Elements of Words Their Way
Sorts
Constructivist learning and teacher-directed instruction
Talk to make discoveries and form generalizations
Practice a sort 6-8 times independently and with a buddy
Reflect
Word Study Notebook
Progress Monitoring
Transfer to Meaningful Reading and Writing

10. Assessment: Harold’s

11. Harold’s Assessment Composite

12. How to make groups

13. Standard Weekly Routines

14. Teacher Directed Lesson Plan
Demonstrate
Sort and Check
Reflect
Extend

15. Lesson Plan

16. Video Look- Fors

17. Video

18. Video Debrief
What did you notice?
What do you wonder about?

19. A Tour of a Word Study Notebook

24. Weekly Schedule: Sample

25. Progress Monitoring Spelling Inventory (3x a year)
Weekly Spelling Feature Test
End of Unit Test
Spell Checks
Writing Samples across curricular areas

26. Lessons Learned… It takes time…Go slow to go fast!
Minimum of three days with a sort, with a minimum of 6-8 opportunities to practice each sort
Material organization
Use of progress monitoring
Scheduling

28. Tools for Implementation
Core Words Their Way text
Word Sorts Books
Video clips
Walkthrough Criteria
SPPS Words Their Way Launch
Family Letter
Directions for Student Sorts
Weekly Schedule Sample

29. For Teachers

30. For Principals

31. Elementary Literacy Website
Password: elpg
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