1. Word Study for Phonics, Vocabulary, and Spelling
Words Their Way
Word Study for Phonics, Vocabulary, and Spelling

2. Word Sorts Instruction grounded in assessment of student knowledge
Lessons designed around observation and experience with sound and patterns
Phonics
Spelling
Vocabulary

3. 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

4. Brain research suggests that students gain greater long term memory when they are…
Investigating
Testing hypothesis/making predictions
Recording and constructing their own learning

5. Mark Twain Shares
If teaching were telling, we’d all be so smart we could hardly stand ourselves.

6. Using Word Sorts Word sorts demonstrate what students know
Word sorts help students generalize what they know to what they are learning

7. 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

9. 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

10. Sorting is the essential word study activity
Hands-on
Talking
Compare/contrast
Categorizing
Thinking in action
LET’S SORT…….

11. 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

12. Types of Sorts Sound Pattern Meaning Word sorts Picture sorts
No-peeking sorts
Writing sorts
Speed sorts

15. oo ow ou

16. Open Sort

17. ?
Closed Sort: Animals / Non-animals

18. ?

19. 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

20. Letter Name - Alphabetic
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
Letter Name - Alphabetic
Within Word Pattern
Syllables & Affixes
Derivational
Relations
Reading Stage
Grade Range
Spelling Stage

21. Words Their Way Stages of Development
Emergent Spelling
Emergent Reading
PreK to middle of grade 1

22. Words Their Way Stages of Development
Letter Name-Alphabetic Spelling
Beginning Readers
K to middle of grade 2

23. Words Their Way Stages of Development
Within Word Pattern Spellers
Transitional Readers
Grade 1 to middle grade 4

24. Words Their Way Stages of Development
Syllables and Affixes Spellers
Intermediate Readers
Grades 3 - 8

25. Words Their Way Stages of Development
Derivational Relations
Advanced Readers
Grades

27. Animal Picture Sort
Bears
Dogs
Monkeys

28. Lay and Say….

29. Food, Clothes and Toys

30. Beginning Sounds b,m

31. Word Families

32. Digraph sorts and a closer look at blends:

33. Short and Long Vowels CVC Patterns

34. Long Vowel Patterns

35. Sort Your Word Cards

36. Prefixes
re, un

37. Apply To Meaningful Text