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Word Study. Presented by Shannon Lockard slockard@psd1.org. Entry Task: As a team, list as many words as you can on the paper at your table, that have the root word aqua or aque.
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Word Study Presented by Shannon Lockard slockard@psd1.org Entry Task: As a team, list as many words as you can on the paper at your table, that have the root word aqua or aque
“The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.”Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1889-1951, TractatusLogico-Philosophicus(1922)
Pasco School District Strategic Plan 2008-2011 District Goal # 1. Teaching and Learning: Create a personalized learning environment where students achieve rigorous standards through quality instruction. Key Actions: 1.4 Quality Instruction 1.4.1 By 2009, implement and evaluate plan to provide a personalized learning environment that allows for individualized and differentiated instruction to meet students’ needs. Content and Instructional Approaches: 2. Balanced Literacy 6. Guided Language Acquisition Design
Sequence of Development and Instruction • Emergent Stage • Letter Name—Alphabetic Stage • Within Word Pattern Stage • Syllables and Affixes • Derivational Relations
Common Content Vocabulary • Language Arts • History
Root/Prefix/Suffix of the Day • 1.2.2 Apply a variety of strategies to comprehend words and ideas in complex text. • Connect to Cognitive Content Dictionary • Keep root, suffix, or prefix for a week
Roots and Branches • Root word in the center • Branches from root with derived words and meanings • Twigs from the branches of other forms of the derived word
Homophones for Within Word Pattern • Homophone sort • Homophone dictionary • Homophone Rummy
Graffiti Wall • Find a chart • Answer the question • Ask a new question • Move to a new chart
Resources Bear, D., Invernizzi, M., Templeton, S., & Johnson, F. (2004). Words Their Way: Word Study for phonics, vocabulary, and spelling instruction (3rd Ed.) Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall. Bloodgood, J.W.; Pacifici, L.C. “Bringing Word Study to Intermediate Classrooms”. The Reading Teacher, November 2004. http//www.all-about-spelling.com/list-of-homophones.html
“Language is fossil poetry.”Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1882, Essays: Second Series (1844) “The Poet”