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• Words Their Way! Teacher eBook Access
• 4 copies of Words Their Way: Word Study for Phonics, Vocabulary, and Spelling Instruction, Global Edition, 7th Edition
• 2 copies of Words Their Way Letter and Picture Sorts for Emergent Spellers, Global Edition, 3rd Edition
• 2 copies of Words Their Way: Word Sorts for Letter Name-Alphabetic Spellers, Global Edition, 3rd Edition
• 2 copies of Words Their Way: Word Sorts for Within Word Pattern Spellers, Global Edition, 3rd Edition
• 2 copies of Words Their Way: Word Sorts for Syllables and Affixes Spellers, Global Edition, 3rd Edition
• 2 copies of Words Their Way: Word Sorts for Derivational Relations Spellers, Global Edition, 3rd Edition

About Words Their Way: Word Sorts for Letter Name-Alphabetic Spellers, Global Edition
In keeping with the authors’ belief that the hands-on word sorting approach to word study is invaluable to teachers and students alike, this volume presents prepared sorts covering the complete curriculum of word study for the letter name-alphabetic stage of spelling development. Complete with 60 blackline masters, specific teacher directions, suggestions for follow-up activities, and spell checks for ongoing assessment, this collection of sorts includes both picture and word sorts for students who are in the letter name-alphabetic stage of spelling development.

About Words Their Way: Word Sorts for Syllables and Affixes Spellers, Global Edition
This volume presents a complete curriculum of word study for students who are in the syllables and affixes stage of spelling development. Complete with 58 sorts, specific teacher directions, suggestions for follow-up activities, and spell checks for ongoing assessment, this collection of sorts presents 24 words each week.

About Words Their Way: Word Sorts for Within Word Pattern Spellers, Global Edition
This volume presents 59 prepared sorts covering the complete curriculum of word study for learners in the within word pattern stage of spelling development. Complete with blackline masters, specific teacher directions, suggestions for follow-up activities, and spellchecks for ongoing assessment, the word sort lessons in this book help teachers to encourage students to think about words and reach conclusions about how the spelling system works.

About Words Their Way Letter and Picture Sorts for Emergent Spellers, Global Edition
This volume presents prepared sorts and activities covering the full curriculum of word study for students who are in the emergent stage of spelling development. Complete with 26 sorts, and dozens of other activities and assessments, this book provides all of the resources needed to teach phonological awareness, alphabet knowledge, initial letter sounds, concepts about print, and concept of word in text. Together, the Words Their Way core text and this supplement provide teachers with the knowledge and tools to meet the wide range of needs in today’s classrooms.


About Words Their Way: Word Study for Phonics, Vocabulary, and Spelling Instruction, Global Edition
Words Their Way is a developmental approach to phonics, vocabulary and spelling instruction. Guided by an informed interpretation of spelling errors and other literacy behaviours, Words Their Way offers a systematic, teacher-directed, child-centred plan for the study of words from Kindergarten to high school. The keys to this research-based approach are knowing your students’ literacy progress, organising for instruction and implementing word study.

About Words Their Way: Word Sorts for Derivational Relations Spellers, Global Edition 
This volume presents prepared sorts and activities covering the full curriculum of word study for advanced readers and writers in the derivational relations stage of spelling development. Complete with 65 reproducible sorts, and dozens of other activities and assessments, this book provides all of the resources needed to engage in generative word study. Together, the Words Their Way core text and this supplement provide teachers with the knowledge and tools to meet the wide range of needs in today’s classrooms.

 

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Features of Words Their Way: Word Sorts for Letter Name-Alphabetic Spellers, Global Edition

• 60 prepared sorts cover the complete curriculum of word study from the letter name-alphabetic state of spelling development.
• 11 new sorts add to the book’s wide assortment, including 4 new sorts to target challenging consonant contrasts (such as b and p) for students who confuse similarly articulated sounds, and a new unit addressing pre-consonantal nasals.
• Literature Connections make links between features being studied and valuable children’s literature.
• Targeted Learners sections clarify which students will benefit most from the instruction.
• High Frequency Words receive special attention.
• Notes for the Teacher are found in each unit, providing placement guidelines and background information about the features of study. The notes also describe weekly routines that ensure practice and enrichment, while offering suggestions for literature connections and games.
• Directions for how to introduce the sort as well as additional teaching tips are included in each lesson.
• All sorts are reproducible.
• New features support effective teaching and learning, including:
  • Clearly stated generalisations for each lesson.
  • Step-by-step directions for each sort, expanded to encourage active thinking with questions to guide reflection and generalising.
  • A new pacing chart and goal setting form to provide guidelines for placing students in the lesson progression, suggestions for modifying the progression of sorts, and tools to monitor students’ progress through each unit.

Features of Words Their Way: Word Sorts for Syllables and Affixes Spellers, Global Edition
This collection of word-sorting activities is for students who are in the syllables and affixes stage of spelling development, typically intermediate or advanced readers and writers (Grades 3 to 8).

• The sorts in this collection present 24 words each week, selected according to their frequency of occurrence in reading materials, and allow students to discover spelling generalisations or to compare syllable juncture features and patterns.
• 58 reproducible sorts that are available for students to use in hands-on sorting activities.
• Literature Connections which make links between the features being studied and valuable children’s literature.
• Targeted Learners sections that clarify which students will benefit most from the instruction.
• High Frequency Words which receive special attention.
• Notes for the Teacher that are found in each unit and provide placement guidelines and background information about the features of study. The notes also describe weekly routines that ensure practice and enrichment, and offer suggestions for literature connections and games.
• Directions for how to introduce the sort, as well as additional teaching tips, which are included in each lesson.
• Clearly stated generalisations for each lesson.
• Step-by-step directions for each sort, expanded to encourage active thinking with questions to guide reflection and generalising.
• A new pacing chart and goal setting form to provide guidelines for placing students in the lesson progression, suggestions for modifying the progression of sorts, and tools to monitor students’ progress through each unit.
• Suggestions for how to explore the meaning of words.
• "Apply" activities that engage students with active thinking in order to recognise and explore generalisations about how words work.

 

Features of Words Their Way: Word Sorts for Derivational Relations Spellers, Global Edition

• A complete curriculum of reproducible sorts and word-sorting activities for advanced readers in the derivational relations stage of spelling.
• Reproducible sorts—65 in all—are organised by basic and advanced levels into 12 units.
• Step-by-step directions include generalisations for each lesson highlighting what students will learn, tips for sorting and discussion, critical thinking questions, and opportunities to extend and apply learning.
• Generative word study engages students in the examination of the structure or morphology of written words and how the spelling of words visually represents meaning units, or morphemes—prefixes, suffixes, base words, and Greek and Latin word roots.
• Word sort lessons are now broken down into 7 sections: Generalisation, Explore Meaning, Sorting and Discussion, Extend, Apply, and Additional Words.
• Clearly stated generalisations at the beginning of each lesson highlight what students will learn from each activity.
• Extend sections provide follow-up activities that go beyond sorting and involve students in word hunts, listening exercises, and more.
• Apply sections for each sort ask students to use the generalisation to develop strategies for spelling unfamiliar words.
• English learners notes at the beginning of each unit provide guidance to teachers, including information on cognates and other related words.
• Weekly and unit assessments allow teachers to monitor student progress.

Features of Words Their Way: Word Sorts for Within Word Pattern Spellers, Global Edition

• 59 prepared sorts cover the complete curriculum of word study for the Within Word pattern stage of spelling development.
• Literature Connections make links between features being studied and valuable children’s literature.
• Targeted Learners sections clarify which students will benefit most from the instruction.
• High Frequency Words receive special attention.
• Notes for the Teacher are found in each unit, and provide placement guidelines and background information about the features of study. The notes also describe weekly routines that ensure practice and enrichment, while offering suggestions for literature connections and games.
• Directions for how to introduce the sort as well as additional teaching tips in each lesson are included.
• All sorts are reproducible.
• A number of new features support effective teaching and learning, including:
• Clearly stated generalisations for each lesson, along with suggestions on how to explore the meaning of words, and application activities to help students use the generalisation to spell unfamiliar words and develop spelling and decoding strategies.
• Expanded step-by-step directions for each sort to encourage active thinking and open discussions with questions to guide reflection and generalising.
• Clear guidelines for placing students in the lesson progression, along with suggestions for modifying the progression of sorts using a pacing chart.
• A goal setting form to help teachers more accurately monitor students’ progress throughout each unit.

Features of Words Their Way Letter and Picture Sorts for Emergent Spellers, Global Edition

• A complete curriculum of assessments, reproducible sorts, and activities for emergent spellers (PreK through early 1st Grade)
• Additional assessments for syllables and concepts about print have been added to help educators determine what students know and how to plan instruction.
• Concept sorts extend vocabulary and conceptual thinking, and teach students the process of sorting using familiar objects and ideas.
• Sound sorts facilitate the systematic study of beginning consonants through explicit instruction.
• Activities teach phonemic awareness, rhyming, syllabication, and sound play.
• More syllable sorts are included in this edition.
• Updated rhyme sorts are now based on current literature.
• Revised font sorts contrast letters that frequently confuse emergent spellers.
• Revised letter pages with additional pictures and fonts help young spellers visualise the information presented.
• A user-friendly format makes teaching and learning easier
• Instructional units combine phonological and print awareness, alphabet instruction, and concept of word in text.
• A whole-to-part integrated lesson plan begins with text and works down to the smallest elements of letters and sounds.
• Step-by-step directions for how to introduce the sort, as well as additional teaching tips, are included in each lesson.
• Suggestions for English learners clarify how to provide accommodations and differentiated instruction based on students’ language diversity.
• Notes for the Teacher are found in each unit and provide background information, learning targets, and teaching tips.
• Reorganised chapters make it easier to find reading selections.

Features of Words Their Way: Word Study for Phonics, Vocabulary, and Spelling Instruction, Global Edition

• References throughout the book with the latest research pertaining to word study have been updated.
• Chapter 3 has been revised to focus on the word study lesson, teacher-student interactions and follow-up activities.
• A new Chapter 9 addresses the larger issues involved in organising word study in the classroom.
• Sample lesson plans are included in each chapter to demonstrate how teachers guide thoughtful discussions about words.
• ‘Ten Indicators of Effective Word Study Classrooms’ in Chapter 9 have been added to guide evaluation and professional development.
• Activities have been added and . revised in Chapters 3–8.
• Progress-monitoring and goal-setting materials are available in Appendix B.
• A new term, focused contrasts, is introduced to highlight the importance of comparing and contrasting letters and spelling patterns related to speech sounds and meaning units or morphemes.
• English learner callouts provide more information about comparisons between English and other languages.
• Visually enhanced, full-colour design breaks the content into more manageable sections that highlight Teacher Tips and boxed text supplements in the main text

Table of contents for Words Their Way: Word Sorts for Letter Name-Alphabetic Spellers, Global Edition

• Overview
• Sorts for Early Letter Name-Alphabetic
• Unit I: Review Sorts for Beginning Consonants
• Unit II: Same-Vowel Word Families with Pictures
• Sorts for Middle Letter Name-Alphabetic
• Unit III: Digraphs and Blends Picture Sorts
• Unit IV: Mixed-Vowel Word Families
• Unit V: Short Vowels in CVC Words
• Sorts for Late Letter-Name Alphabetic
• Unit VI: Pre-consonantal Nasals
• Unit VII: Additional Sorts: Introduction to R-Influenced Vowels and Contractions
• Appendix

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Table of contents for Words Their Way: Word Sorts for Syllables and Affixes Spellers, Global Edition

• Sorts for Early Syllables and Affixes
• Unit I: Inflected Endings (-ing, -ed, -s, -es)
• Unit II: Compound Words
• Sorts for Middle Syllables and Affixes
• Unit III: Syllable Juncture
• Unit IV: Long-Vowel Patterns in Accented Syllables
• Unit V: Other Vowel Patterns in Accented Syllables
• Unit VI: Unaccented Syllables
• Unit VII: Exploring Consonants
• Sorts for Late Syllables and Affixes
• Unit VIII: Affixes
• Unit IX: Miscellaneous Sorts
• Appendix

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Table of contents for Words Their Way: Word Sorts for Derivational Relations Spellers, Global Edition

• Level 1: Basic Derivational Relations
• Unit I: Suffixes and Prefixes
• Unit II: Derivational Suffixes
• Unit III: The Suffix -ion
• Unit IV: Spelling-Meaning Patterns 1
• Unit V: Latin and Greek Word Parts 1
• Unit VI: Spelling-Meaning Patterns 2
• Unit VII: Latin and Greek Word Parts 2
• Unit VIII: Spelling-Meaning Patterns 3
• Level 2: Advanced Derivational Relations
• Unit IX: Latin and Greek Word Parts 3
• Unit X: Latin and Greek Word Parts 4
• Unit XI: Prefix Assimilation
• Unit XII: Miscellaneous Sorts

Table of contents for Words Their Way: Word Study for Phonics, Vocabulary, and Spelling Instruction, Global Edition

• 1. Developmental Word Knowledge
• 2. Getting Started: The Assessment of Orthographic Development
• 3. Word Study Principles and Practices
• 4. Word Study for the Emergent Stage
• 5. Word Study for the Letter Name–Alphabetic Stage
• 6. Word Study for the Within Word Pattern Stage
• 7. Word Study for the Syllables and Affixes Stage
• 8. Word Study for the Derivational Relations Stage
• 9. Implementation of Word Study Instruction: Schedules, Routines, Materials and Effective Practices

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Table of contents for Words Their Way: Word Sorts for Within Word Pattern Spellers, Global Edition

• Sorts for Early Within Word Pattern Spellers
• Unit I: Short- and Long-Vowels: CVC and CVCe
• Unit II: Common Long-Vowel Patterns (CVCe and CVVC)
• Unit III: Less Common Long-Vowel Patterns
• Sorts for Middle Within Word Pattern Spellers
• Unit IV: Other Vowels: R-Influenced Vowel Patterns
• Unit V: Other Vowels: Diphthongs and Ambiguous Vowels
• Sorts for Late Within Word Pattern Spellers
• Unit VI: Beginning and Ending Complex Consonants
• Unit VII: Homophones
• Unit VIII: Additional Sorts
• Appendix

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Table of contents for Words Their Way Letter and Picture Sorts for Emergent Spellers, Global Edition

• 1. Assessments for the Emergent Stage
• 2. Concept Sorts
• 3. Phonological Awareness Picture Sorts
• 4. Alphabet Knowledge
• 5. Word Study for Initial Letter Sounds
• 6. Concepts about Print and Concept of Word in Text