Words Their Way

Click here to view videos of the authors talking about Words Their Way! Words Their Way (TM) companion volumes, 2e We believe that the hands-on word sorting approach to word study is invaluable to you and your students. These stage-specific companion volumes to Words Their Way: Word Study for Phonics, Vocabulary, and Spelling Instruction provide a complete curriculum of reproducible sorts and detailed directions for the teacher working with students in each stage of spelling development, from emergent through derivational relations. Designed to help teachers working with transitional readers in the within word pattern stage of spelling development (Grades 1 - 4), the sorts in this companion volume help students begin contrasting long and short vowels and sorting words by grammatical and semantic features. The book begins by reexamining short- and long-vowel sounds with picture sorts, moving on to word sorts to thoroughly examine vowel patterns and assess students' understanding of short- and long-vowel patterns. The text moves on to dipthongs and other ambiguous vowel sounds, and finally to complex consonants and consonant clusters, contractions, inflectional endings and homophones.SORTS FOR EARLY WITHIN WORD PATTERN SPELLERS Sorts 1 - 6 Picture Sorts for Short- and Long-Vowel Sounds Spell Check 1: Assessment for Long Vowel Sounds Sorts 7 - 12 Word Sorts Contrasting Short- and Long-Vowel Sounds and Patterns (CVC and CVCe) Spell Check 2: Assessment for Short- and Long (CVCe)-Vowel Spelling Patterns Sorts 13 - 18 Common Long-Vowel Patterns (CVCe and CVVC) Spell Check 3: Assessing the CVVC Long-Vowel Pattern for A, E, O andU SORTS FOR MIDDLE WITHIN WORD PATTERN SPELLERS Sorts 19 - 24 Less Common Long-Vowel Patterns Spell Check 4: Assessment for Less Common Long-Vowel Patterns Sorts 25 - 30 R-Influeced Vowel Patterns Spell Check 5: Assessment for R-Influenced Vowels SORTS FOR LATE WITHIN WORD SPELLERS Sorts 31 - 35 Diphthongs and Other Ambiguous Vowel Sounds Spell Check 6: Assessment for Diphthongs and Other Ambiguous Vowels Sorts 43 - 44 High-Frequency Words and Contractions Spell Check 10: Assessment for High-Frequency Words Starting with A- and Be- Spell Check 11: Assessment for Contractions Sorts 36 - 42 Beginning and Ending Complex Consonants and Consonant Clusters Spell Check 7: Assessment for Beginning Complex Consonant Clusters Spell Check 8: Assessment for Hard and Soft C and G and Word Endings -CE, -SE, and -VE Spell Check 9: Assessment for Complex Consonant Clusters DGE/GE and TCH/CH Sorts 45 - 46 Inflectional Endings for Plural and Past Tense Spell Check 12: Base Word + Inflection: Plural and Past Tense Endings Sorts 47 - 50 Long Vowel Homophones Appendix