Words Their Way: Word Study for Phonics, Vocabulary, and Spelling Instruction

For use in the Reading Methods (Supplementary) or Phonological Awareness and Phonics courses. Words Their Way(R) is a hands-on, developmentally-driven approach to word study that illustrates how to integrate and teach children phonics, vocabulary, and spelling skills. Building on its best-selling approach, this edition of Words Their Way continues the phenomenon that has helped thousands of children improve their literacy skills. The keys to this successful, research-based approach are to know your students' literacy progress, organize for instruction, and implement word study. This Sixth Edition lists the Common Core State Standards for each activity and features enhanced discussions, activities, and content. To offer teachers even more tools that will enhance their word study instruction, all new classroom videos and interactive PDFs are available on the PDToolkit site. With its newly designed marginal icons that link readers to resources on the accompanying web site, Words Their Way, provides a complete word study package that will motivate and engage your students, and help them to succeed in literacy learning.Brief Contents Activities Preface Chapter 1 Developmental Word Knowledge Chapter 2 Getting Started Chapter 3 Organizing for Word Study Chapter 4 Word Study for Learners in the Emergent Stage Chapter 5 Word Study for Beginners in the Letter Name-Alphabetic Stage Chapter 6 Word Study for Transitional Learners in the Within Word Pattern Stage Chapter 7 Word Study for Intermediate Readers and Writers Chapter 8 Word Study for Advanced Readers and Writers Appendices APPENDIX A Assessment Materials APPENDIX B Sound Boards APPENDIX C Pictures for Sorts and Games APPENDIX D Sample Word Sorts by Spelling Stage APPENDIX E Word Lists APPENDIX F Games and Templates for Sorts APPENDIX G Other Resources Glossary References Index