Blending sounds into wordswhat an exciting step in learning to read. The words are crow, stars, tree, frog, shell, plane, glove, train, broom, scarf. Explain that students will get to come up with as many words as they can that start with their consonant blend. Following the 5 stages of spelling development, this classroomready package features all materials needed to assist teachers to instruct in phonics, vocabulary, and spelling. In order to help my kiddos practice their triple s blends, i came up with a partner spinner game. Words their way is a handson, developmentallydriven approach to word study that illustrates how to integrate and teach children phonics, vocabulary, and spelling skills. Kristi mcneal, csu fresno words their way s developmentallydriven, handson instructional approach has been a phenomenon in word study, providing a practical way to this book would be very useful for both university reading.
Words their way literacy program pearson elementary. Using words their way to teach spelling this reading mama. Tony is part of a large group in the middle letter namealphabetic stage who has beginning and ending consonants under control, but shows little accuracy when spelling digraphs and blends or short vowels. Word sorts for letter name alphabetic spellers words their way series. Blends, digraphs, trigraphs, and other letter combinations. If you have any fun ideas for teaching blends and digraphs, please let us know by leaving a comment. For use in the reading methods supplementary or phonological awareness and phonics courses. There are also blends which contain three consonants.
Jul 26, 2018 put students in small groups, and pass out one of the prewritten beginning consonant blends posters to each group. Click hereto access build, blend, and extend activities for level a. The directions here offer some ideas for guiding the sort and shows what the final sort will look like. Teachers are encouraged to make use of the sorts found within these books for word study instruction. Words their way spelling list matches sorts 26 digraphs. Words their way digraphs and blends spelling homework book.
The study of shortvowel word families is important to do in the early letter name stage because they have difficulty attending to the vowel sound. The letter name and alphabetic stage words their wayby. Get the latest information about words their way and other pearson learning group products. Series was designed to cover groups of books generally understood as such. That core text provides a practical, researchbased and classroomproven way to study words with students. This can be used with the words their way inventory or as a stand alone spellingvocabulary program. Building on its bestselling approach, this edition of words their way continues the phenomenon that has helped thousands of children improve their literacy skills. I was given the newest versions of these books by words their way, but have. This book could be appropriate for kindergarten, first, or second grade classes.
Exploring the implementation of words their way in a first grade classroom kathryn j. As i understand it, the other books in the series that are broken down by the different levels are a bit more pragmatic. Words their way sort books are available for use in the wenonah literacy center. Jul 25, 2019 either way, its a winwin when you can directly relate your word study lessons to the act of reading, writing, or spelling. Original documents, speeches, poems, and stories from world history is a collection of primary works collected to use along with the notgrass company exploring world history curriculum. Words their way letter name alphabetic spellers uni. To gather some ideas for other stages of words their way, be sure to click the buttons below. Beside each blend, in brackets, is an example of a word starting with that blend.
Word hunt students are required to look around the room and in books to find additional words that fit their categories. Our books teach phonics sounds in incremental steps. In their words updated edition christian books, bibles. Words their way literacy program pearson elementary literacy. The words their way system itself is acceptable, but this book is not very practical for easeofuse. Words their way is a teacherdirected, studentcentred approach to vocabulary growth and spelling development where students engage in a variety of sound, pattern and meaning activities, sorting pictures and words. Consonant blends words include words like spot, land, track, west, and sand. Words their way is a handson, developmentallydriven approach to word study that illustrates how to integrate and teach children phonics, vocabulary, and.
The authors of the professional development book words their way. This developmental model recognizes the synchronous nature of reading, writing, and spelling, and has identified common characteristics of readers, writers, and spellers along the literacy continuum. Word sorts for letter namealphabetic spellers is intended to supplement the text words their way. There is a newer words their way post with more information. Word study for phonics, vocabulary, and spelling instruction. Words their way series the word study approach that more than half a million educators trust.
Kids can practice consonant blends with reading elephant phonics books with blends. Francine is a coauthor of many books, including words their way. Do you have students who know their letters and sounds and can sound out any. In the table below are the different combinations of blends you will find at the beginning of words. Beginning readers focus on consonant blends words with short vowels like. Words their way is a word study program in which students learn by sorting words into categories. Word study is not a onesizefitsall program of instruction that begins in the same place for all students within a grade level bear, invernizzi, templeton, johnston 2008, p. Pearson words their way literacy program for grades k5. I have also included a fill in theblank cloze activity for each week of words that can be used as class work or homework for reinforcement. The consonant blends and digraphs intervention kit can be purchased from the make, take and teach website. Exploring the implementation of words their way in a first. Word sorts for letter namealphabetic spellers, 3rd edition. To leave a comment on this blog post, just click the title. A teachers how to guide to using words their way, an assessmentbased.
In addition to playing with the sound of words, this humorously illustrated book just may start a. If you want to force a particular order, use the character to divide the number and the descriptor. Segmenting and blending individual sounds can be difficult at the beginning. I discovered and became interested in the words their way program wtw. Like many concepts in the book world, series is a somewhat fluid and contested notion. The keys to this successful, researchbased approach are to know your students literacy progress, organize for instruction, and implement word study. Words their way level b wtwr teacher reference book trg teacher resource guide wsn student word study notebook bbr big book of rhymes wtwl words their way library cd cdrom 4 3. If youre not familiar with words their way, it is a developmental spelling program which has students work with levelappropriate word sorts in order to improve their understanding of the written language. The most common beginning consonant blends include. Covering creation to the present day, this book contains traditional maori stories, excerpts from josephus and aquinas, selections from herodotus and the odyssey, the edict of milan by. Feature analyses inform teachers what spelling features to teach. Word study in action developmental model aligns students spelling development into the following five researchbased stages. Earlier this week i was looking through some of our words their way posts and noticed that we gave away the game smackdown but the link to the download was buried in another post and it was hard to.
The easiest and first ones to learn are the two letter blends which begin words. Words their way digraphs and blends spelling homework book by. Engage your students with pearsons words their way literacy program. Elementary spelling inventory esi the elementary spelling inventory esi covers more stages than the psi. Based on years of research into invented and developmental spelling, the classroomproven framework of this successful series is keyed to the five stages of. I hope youve got some fresh, new ideas to add to your word study toolbox for the letter namealphabetic stage spellers. Mar 01, 2018 consonant blends are two or more letter sounds in a row. Meanwhile, more advanced spellers who came in knowing some blends and.
See words their way for complete instructions about how to place students, how. Based on years of research into invented and developmental. Words their way answer keys word sorts for within word pattern spellers ww for parents only. The word study approach that more than half a million educators trust. Click hereto access additional information on words their way.
Unit 1 picture sorts for short and longvowel sounds sort 1 short a and cat. A printout about blended consonant sounds and spelling for early readers. As mentioned above, a words their way emergent speller who can spell little words like mat, nap, kid, log, jet and gum is not in fact an emergent speller at all, so i went looking through words my way for their stage. Next, our consonant blends books teach kids to read two letter sounds in a row. Words their way is a series of textbooks, activity books, activity guides, teachers guides, and workbooks owned by pearson education, inc. Series was designed to cover groups of books generally understood as such see wikipedia. Each week of homework contains a list of 10 spelling words that are taken from words their way sorts and daily activities. Our consonant blends books give kids extensive practice with a. Responses from the field a strength of each chapter is the notes. As i understand it, the other books in the series that are broken down by. You may have access to the sort books at your school. The keys to this successful, researchbased approach are to know your students literacy progress, organize for.
The goals of phonics and word study instruction are to teach children that there are systematic relationships between letters and sounds, that written words are composed of letter patterns representing the sounds of spoken words, that recognizing words quickly and accurately is a way of obtaining meaning from them, and that they can blend. Think of and write words that start with the blends scr, shr, and spl. The matching sorts from words their way are listed at the end of the book for your reference. Blends can also occur at the end of words as in the word last. Words their way for letter name alphabetic spellers units bundleyour students will enjoy learning about initial consonants, same vowel word families, digraphs, and blends in these low prep activities. Once students know a few consonants and vowels, we can begin to teach them how to blend those sounds into meaningful words. These texts provide k12 teachers with instruction and word lists that correlate to students developmental stage. Words their way scope and sequence within word patterns within word patterns cont. Students blend the sounds for c, a, and t to read the. It can be used as early as first grade, particularly if a school system wants to use the same inventory across the elementary grades. The developmentally driven words their way instructional approach is a phenomenon in word study, providing a practical way to study words with students.
Tell students that they can either write the words or draw pictures of the words on their posters. The following links provide powerpoints that can be used by teachers to model the word sorts or have individual students access the sorts on the computer. Printable books about blends, digraphs, trigraphs, etc. Put students in small groups, and pass out one of the prewritten beginning consonant blends posters to each group. I use words their way both in my first grade classroom and with college students as a way to implement word study. Register your copy and download correlations and other resources. Dec 21, 20 blending sounds into wordswhat an exciting step in learning to read. Consonant blends are two or more letter sounds in a row. Either way, its a winwin when you can directly relate your word study lessons to the act of reading, writing, or spelling. Based on years of research into invented and developmental spelling, the classroomproven framework of this successful series is keyed to the five stages of spelling and orthographic development. These texts provide k12 teachers with instruction and word lists that correlate to students developmental stage of word study. Burkinafaso, burundi, calliope, cambodia, cameroon and cote divoire, canada, canada for ib orders. Think of and write words that start with the blends sc, sk, sl, and squ.
Words their way, level d the syllables and affixes stage represents a new point in word analysis because there is more than one syllable to consider and each syllable may present a spelling problem. I found that answer in the book words their way by donald bear, marcia invernizzi, shane templeton, and francine johnston. To begin using words their way, we recommend that you gather some supplies. The correlation charts found on the next few pages provides some alignment between the word journeys stages and features and the materials found within the words. The accented second syllable in parading might be spelled several ways, as in peraiding. If you are teaching early childhood, we recommend words their way for prekk book.
Word sorts are simply a set of words which fall into certain spelling, sound, or semantic categories. Provides a way of interpreting childrens spelling errors by taking into account their knowledge of specific orthographic features such as consonant blends or short vowels. Parents are encouraged to help their students learn phonics patterns instead of just memorizing words in an easytoread introduction letter. Blending and segmenting games classroom strategies reading. Tell them you are going to say a word using snail talk a slow way of saying words e.