Words Their Way: Word Sorts for Within Word Pattern Spellers / Edition 2

by Marcia Invernizzi, Francine Johnston, Donald Bear, Shane Templeton

Overview

Words Their Way ^® 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.

NEW! All second editions boast

• Literature Connections making links between features being studies and valuable children’s literature
• Targeted Learners sections that clarify which students will benefit most from the instruction
• Spell Checks and other Assessments available more frequently throughout
• High Frequency Words receive special attention

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 diphthongs and other ambiguous vowel sounds, and finally to complex consonants and consonant clusters, contractions, inflectional endings and homophones.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780135148433
Publisher:	Pearson Education
Publication date:	04/18/2008
Series:	Words Their Way Series
Edition description:	Older Edition
Pages:	160
Product dimensions:	8.30(w) x 10.82(h) x 0.39(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Marcia Invernizzi is Director of the McGuffey Reading Center at the University of Virginia exploring developmental universals in non-English orthographies. A former English and reading teacher, Marcia works with children experiencing difficulties learning to read and write in intervention programs such as Virginia’s Early Intervention Reading Initiative and Book Buddies

Francine Johnston is Associate Professor in the School of Education at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where she teaches reading, language arts, and children’s literature. A former first-grade teacher and reading specialist.

Donald Bear is director of the E. L. Cord Foundation Center for Learning and Literacy where he and preservice, Master’s and doctoral students teach and assess children who struggle to learn to read and write. Donald is a professor in the Department of Educational Specialties in the College of Education at the University of Nevada, Reno. Donald has been a classroom teacher and he researches and writes about literacy development and instruction. He is an author of numerous articles, book chapters, and books, including Words Their Way ^®, Words Their Way ^® with English Learners, and Vocabulary Their Way.

Shane Templetonis Foundation Professor of Literacy Studies at the University of Nevada, Reno. A former classroom teacher at the primary and secondary levels, he researches the development of orthographic and vocabulary knowledge

Table of Contents

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 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 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 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

Editorial Reviews

Responses from the field…

A strength of each chapter is the Notes for the Teacher section that introduces each set of sorts. This reminds teachers about developmental appropriateness and pacing variations based on learner needs. Clearly the gradual release of responsibility model of guided instruction is promoted and reinforced throughout the text.

Barbara Pettegrew, Otterbein College

Chapter layout is excellent. Format is designed to include anything that might be needed for the lesson, and each takes you step by step through the process being taught, allowing time for students to internalize and firm up the skills and strategies.

Susan K. McCloskey, California State University, Fresno

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