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Word Work @ Daily 5

Word Work @ Daily 5. Students will practice spelling, vocabulary, or high frequency words kinesthetically and visually. Common Questions. What words do I use? What are the best Word Work materials to use? How often should I be changing the materials?. What words do I use?.

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Word Work @ Daily 5

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  1. Word Work @ Daily 5

  2. Students will practice spelling, vocabulary, or high frequency words kinesthetically and visually.

  3. Common Questions What words do I use? What are the best Word Work materials to use? How often should I be changing the materials?

  4. What words do I use? • Sight Words (65% of written text) • Words from Trophies Spelling • Cautions • Words from Words Their Way • Words students are getting wrong in their writing • Vocabulary Words • Tier 11 Words (fortunate, required, endure)

  5. What are the best materials to use? • Individual White Boards • Beans or shells that can be used over and over again • Oily Crayola Modeling Clay smashed into the lid of a coffee can. Kids use a golf tee to write the words, smooth it out to erase, and begin again. • Magnetic Letters • Letter stamps- Stamp it, Write it, Read it • Magna Doodles

  6. How often do I change materials? • We used to change the Word Work materials often to make it fresh and fun. • The “Sisters” say changing materials too often hinders word development. WW becomes more about the materials instead of learning words. • Typically the WW materials we begin the year with are the same ones we end the year with. Once children are independent with the process of getting out the materials, using them correctly and putting them away, the focus turns to the words and away from the materials!

  7. Important Reminders • Word Work holds no content. • Word Work is merely the time to practice moving words into long term memory. • Children don’t have to stay at WW for a full round. 10 minutes is enough. Children practice their words and put their materials away and move into another Daily 5 choice.

  8. Going Beyond Daily 5

  9. More Effective Strategies • Interactive Read Alouds • Word Consciousness Classroom • Million $ Words, RIP Words • Frayer Model (Examples, Non Examples, Illustration) • Stoplight Strategy • Multiple Meaning: Rock • Model Excellent Language • Book Wall and Content Wall • Voracious Reading

  10. Less Effective Strategies • Asking, “Does anybody know what _____ means?” • Having students “look it up” in a typical dictionary • Having students use the word in a sentence after looking it up • Students guessing the definition • Copying from dictionary or glossary • Copying same word several times • Activities that do not require deep processing (word searches, fill-in-the-blank worksheets, etc.) • Rote memorization without context • Relying on incidental teaching of words

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