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Word Study

Word Study . A Guide For Parents. Word Study. Research and Best Practice. Best practice suggestions and professional literature from: Fry , Dolche, Timothy Rasinski, Patricia Cunningham, Regie Routman, Marie Clay, Irene Fountas, and Gay Su Pinnell. What is Word Study?.

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Word Study

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  1. Word Study A Guide For Parents Word Study

  2. Research and Best Practice • Best practice suggestions and professional literature from: • Fry, Dolche, Timothy Rasinski, Patricia Cunningham, Regie Routman, Marie Clay, Irene Fountas, and Gay Su Pinnell

  3. What is Word Study? • Word Study is a conceptual way of thinking about how to read, understand, and spell words. It is a rich and rigorous way of thinking about words and how we use them.

  4. Word Study contains three critical components which are essential for students to become readers and writers. Word Study includes: • Phonics • Spelling • Vocabulary

  5. How Is Word Study Different From Traditional Spelling? • Word Study not only includes learning to correctly spell words, it also gives students an opportunity to think more deeply about words and how they are put together. • When students look at the parts of words and what those parts mean, they are able to see relationships between words that are similar in how they are spelled. For example, if I can spell top I can spell stop.

  6. How Is Word Study Different From Traditional Spelling? • Students will still learn the rules of spelling andhow to apply those rules as part of Word Study. • Word Study opens the student’s word world, while traditional spelling relies on memorizing words in isolation.

  7. What Does Word Study Look Like In The Classroom? • Students will be engaged in building words, word sorts, word wall activities and other activities that not only teach the rules of spelling but also support vocabulary development. • Students work with a variety of words at different levels. Word Study supports differentiation. • Word Study is a component of guided reading and writing instruction. We study words throughout the day.

  8. Making Words Day 1 • Explicit instruction on the patterns of English spelling . Students are taught how to use letter patterns to actually decode and spell new words when they are reading and writing. • Making Words the SMART way

  9. Word Sorts Day 2 • The brain seeks patterns—basic cognitive learning processes of comparing and contrasting, discovering similarities and differences, generalizing beyond isolated words.

  10. Word Wall Day 3 • The interplay between writing and reading is especially important for the beginner. • We want to help students recognize high frequency words quickly and automatically while reading for meaning.

  11. Word Wall Activities • Knowing words facilitates fluent reading and allows the reader to pay attention to new words. - Guided Reading by Fountas and Pinnell • The 100 most frequently used words make up 50% of all material written in English.

  12. Word Wall

  13. Taken from http://www.k111.k12.il.us/lafayette/fourblocks/word_wall_chants.htm Adapted by J. Wolf

  14. A Few Interesting Facts • Word Study helps students gain automaticity and fluency in the reading and writing of new words correctly. • Adding a beginning letter or letters to the 37 most common word families allows students to spell and read 654 one syllable words. (Fry,1998) This is critical for our beginning readers. 654 words!

  15. How Will Word Study Be Graded? • Students will be given an application level assessment every 4-5 weeks. The assessment is aligned to the Word Study instruction. • Word Study assessments are a major grade, but they are only counted as a x1 grade. • Grades for Word Study will be incorporated in the Language or Reading categories. • Grades 1-3 will be included in Language. • Grades 4 & 5 will be included in Reading.

  16. Higher Level Learning Word Study Spelling Tests

  17. Application Assessment

  18. Application Assessment

  19. Parent Resources • Check out Word Study Resources on Katyisd.org for many resources including - overview Word Study PowerPoint presentation - word banks (with the focus of the week and assessment dates) - letter tiles that can be printed to practice building words at home - research articles Just click on the parent page and then the Word Study tab.

  20. Word Study Bank • Word Study Banks will be available for students in grades 1-3. • Word Study Banks are not spelling lists. They are examples of words based on the patterns used in the classroom. For example, if the spelling pattern is –ad, below is a list of words that can be contained in the Word Study Bank: sad, glad, had, dad

  21. What can you do at home to reinforce word study learning? • Keep a word journal – list new words, sort them, add endings • Encourage your child to write at home for a variety of purposes-lists, letters, stories, messages, notes, etc. • Encourage your child to read a variety of texts that will introduce him/her to new words

  22. Search for or cut out words in magazines, catalogs or newspapers that contain a focus spelling pattern (-ick, -ack, -ash) • For younger children, play with language through word games, songs, rhymes and poetry • Word games – Boggle, Scrabble, crossword puzzles, hangman

  23. Word Family Activities

  24. There’s an app for that! • 100s of apps for iPads, iPods, tablets, etc. Befuddled Chictionary Bookworm Wurdle Puzzlejuice Chalk Up! Moxie 2 Word Solitaire Wooords

  25. Thank You! • Thank you for being a partner in your child’s education. DeborahFSwallers@katyisd.org 281-237-7717

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