Words Their Way: Word Study for Phonics, Vocabulary, and SpellingWith more than 15 years of extensive observations and experiences in real classrooms, the authors bring keen insight to this activity-based book. They advocate basing student learning on the appropriate developmental level. This philosophy is supported with more than 250 ready-to-use word study, spelling, vocabulary, and phonics activities presented in developmental sequence, from the Emergent through the Derivational Relation stage. For educators and school administrators. |
Contents
Layers of Information | 9 |
Words and the Development of Orthographic Knowledge | 13 |
The History of English Spelling and Childrens | 28 |
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alphabet alphabetic principle base word blends and digraphs Cards for Sorts chapter chart closed sorts column concept of word concept sorts consonant blends dents Derivational Constancy developmental Early Letter Name English examine example FIGURE fluency grade homographs homophones initial consonants invented spellings known words language Letter Name spellers Letter Name stage literacy development long vowel patterns match meaning Middle open sorts orthographic knowledge pairs pattern words Picture Cards picture sorts play player prefix Preliterate Procedures R-influenced reading and writing rhyming root Scattergories schwa sequence short vowel patterns small groups Sorts and Games sound boards spelling development spelling inventories Spelling-by-Stage Assessment stage of spelling students sort suffixes Syllable Juncture teachers Variations vocabulary vowel sound vowel words word banks word cards word families word hunts Word List Word Pattern stage word sorts word study activities word study instruction word study notebooks