Words Their Way ~ Word Study
The Word Study approach to spelling allows for students to learn words at
their individual level of instruction and teaches students how words work.
We will be calling this portion of our day Word Study.
What is Word Study?
Word study is just what it sounds like – a study of words. Students are
assessed through out the year and place into small groups based on their
current spelling ability. Students move through weekly word study patterns
and activities. Students lists will be on a word study PATTERN (example –
all long a words, words with CH, CVCe words, or vowels in multisyllable
words). Students are assessed on these patterns at the end of each unit.
During the unit they will also be given dictation test to check if they are
applying what they are learning.
In School Practice
Monday ~
Instruction & sort
with teacher
Tuesday ~
Speed Sort & Write
Wednesday ~
Blind Sort & activity using their words
Thursday ~
Blind Sort & activity using their words
Friday ~
Glue Words in Word Study Journal
Dictation test
Students will be bringing home their sort every week. This is not required
homework. The following are some activites that you can do with them to
help them practice theri words/rule.
No Peeking Sort- Lay down a word from each category as a header and then
read the rest of the words aloud to your child. Your child must indicate
where the word goes without seeing the word. Lay it down and let your child
move it if he or she is wrong. Repeat if your child makes more than one
error.
Word Hunt- Assist your child in doing a word hunt, looking for words in a
familiar book that have the same sound, pattern or both.
Blind Writing Sort- As you call the words in a random order your child
should write them into the sorting categories.