Words Their Way: Pearson New International Edition : Word Sorts for Within Word Pattern Spellers

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. Click here to view videos of the authors talking about Words Their Way! Words Their Way TM companion volumes, 2eWe 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. Cover ......Page 1 Table of Contents ......Page 4 1. Overview......Page 6 2. Picture Sorts for Short- and Long-Vowel Sounds......Page 10 3. Word Sorts Contrasting Short- and Long-Vowel Sounds and Patterns (CVC and CVCe)......Page 22 4. Common Long-Vowel Patterns (CVCe and CVVC)......Page 38 5. Less Common Long-Vowel Patterns......Page 52 6. R-Influenced Vowel Patterns......Page 68 7. Diphthongs and Other Ambiguous Vowel Sound......Page 84 8. High-Frequency Words and Contractions......Page 106 9. Beginning and Ending Complex Consonants and Consonant Clusters......Page 98 10. Inflectional Endings for Plural and Past Tense......Page 126 11. Homophones......Page 134 Appendix......Page 142 I ......Page 154 V ......Page 155 Z ......Page 156