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Word Study for Phonics and Spelling Instruction:

Week of August 29th

Sort 1 – Beginning Consonant Sounds B,M,R,S Pgs. 4-6 in your red book for scripts and more ideas

Ask the students to review what books you read last week and what they were about (alphabet/sounds). Tell them you are going to be working with a few of the letters of the alphabet to solve a puzzle…

Begin the lesson by cutting the red cards for Sort 1. Be sure to model this in front of the class because they will be cutting out their own cards later. Using the document camera, display the cards and ask the students to tell you what they notice/see about these pictures.Be sure to guide the students to recognize the lower-case and upper-case model of each letter. Explain to students what “sort” means and how they are going to help you sort these picture cards to match the beginning consonant sounds. Be sure to emphasize beginning letter sounds as you and the students say the name of each picture.

Give each student a copy of the same picture sort that you have copied for them. Have them cut it out, as you modeled. Have them sort the pictures, as you did together.

Have students take out their “Word Study Notebook” and open to the first page. Have students write the date at the top. Model and guide students to glue their sorted pictures onto the first page. This is the procedure they will follow each week as they learn new sorts: cut, sort, and glue.

Display your red card sort in a pocket chart somewhere in the classroom for the week.

Materials : Sort 1 Folder (Red cards, student copies), “Word Study Notebook,” glue

Week of September 6th

Sort 2 – Beginning Consonant Sounds T,G,N,P Pgs. 4-6 in your red book for scripts and more ideas

Tell the students that we are going to study more letters if the alphabet and their sounds by trying another sort.

Begin the lesson by cutting the red cards for Sort 2. Be sure to model this in front of the class because they will be cutting out their own cards later. Using the document camera, display the cards and ask the students to tell you what they notice/see about these pictures. Be sure to guide the students to recognize the lower-case and upper-case model of each letter. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Explain to students what “sort” means and how they are going to help you sort these picture cards to match the beginning consonant sounds. Be sure to emphasize beginning letter sounds as you and the students say the name of each picture.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Give each student a copy of the same picture sort that you have copied for them. Have them cut it out, as you modeled. Have them sort the pictures, as you did together.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Have students take out their “Word Study Notebook” and open to the next clean page. Have students write the date at the top. Model and guide students to glue their sorted pictures onto the first page. This is the procedure they will follow each week as they learn new sorts: cut, sort, and glue.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Display your red card sort in a pocket chart somewhere in the classroom for the week.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Materials <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">: Sort 2 Folder (Red cards, student copies), “Word Study Notebook,” glue

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Ideas: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Some great follow-up activities could be used for Morning Work. For example, on Tuesday, students can pick three to five of the words/picture names and write them in a sentence in their “Word Study Notebook.” On Wednesday, you can have students use a book to go on a “Word Hunt” and find and record words that start with these letters. They can record these words in their “Word Study Notebook.” Now all of their words are in one location!

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">LessonResource: Bear, D., Invernizzi, M., Templeton, S., & Johnston, F. (2007). Words their way: word study for phonics, vocabulary, and spelling instruction, 4th edition. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall. (17 copies, iBistro)