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Fun with Words K-1

Fun with Words K-1. Lori Elliott SDE. Word Facts. There are about 400,000 words in a dictionary. Only 13 percent of these words are truly exceptional, in that they must be memorized by sight. . Spelling Instruction Should Include:. Alphabetic principle knowledge Pattern information

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Fun with Words K-1

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  1. Fun with WordsK-1 Lori Elliott SDE

  2. Word Facts • There are about 400,000 words in a dictionary. Only 13 percent of these words are truly exceptional, in that they must be memorized by sight.

  3. Spelling Instruction Should Include: • Alphabetic principle knowledge • Pattern information • Meaning information

  4. 2nd Edition NEW EDITION Yardsticks by Chip Wood

  5. totlol.com

  6. Black Socks Black socks, they never get dirty, The longer I wear them, the stronger they get! Sometimes I think I should wash them, But something inside me keeps saying , “Not yet! Not yet! Not Yet!

  7. Stay on the Sunny Side Stay on the sunny side, always on the sunny side Stay on the sunny side of life! You’ll be to blame if we drive you insane, so just stay on the sunny side of life! (For the verses, people tell riddles and then the crowd groans and sings the chorus again and so on.)

  8. Why Use Active Learning Strategies? • Kids are mobile creatures! They are going to move and talk. It is how they learn. We want to capitalize on that energy by providing powerful tools for learning.

  9. What is a word sort? • A strategy for understanding words and word parts. Students learn by doing. Students analyze a set of word cards for similarities. They sort the words into categories.

  10. Why use word sorts? • Spelling • Content • Build background knowledge • Review • Assessment • Practice • Reading/Fluency

  11. Picture Sorts S B

  12. When and Why? • Work on beginning or ending sounds.

  13. Concept Sorts

  14. Why and How • Use when teaching content. • Math • Science • Social Studies

  15. Anne Rockwell Brian P. Cleary

  16. Rhyming Picture Sort

  17. Vowel Picture Sort

  18. Teacher Directed Sorts • Teachers define the categories and model sorting. The teacher shares with students the key word or word part students should use in the sorting.

  19. cat man can rat fan hat pan sat pat that tan bat van mat than fat ran Beginner Level : Sort for Word Families

  20. Student Centered Sort: Open Sort • Students examine all the words in the sort and decide the categories for sorting the words. They sort the words based on this prediction.

  21. http://www.eduplace.com/kids/sv/books/content/wordsort/

  22. http://www.starfall.com/

  23. http://www.bigbrownbear.co.uk/magneticletters/

  24. Rounding up the Rhymes

  25. Steps for Rounding Up the Rhymes Round up the rhymes by asking the children tell you the rhyming words. Write the rhyming words on index cards and put them in a pocket chart. Underline the spelling pattern in each word. Discard any rhyming words which do not follow the spelling pattern.  (example: heard, bird) Round up more words in each category.

  26. Environmental Print/Word Wall

  27. Fly Swatter

  28. Text Message

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