Keep students engaged as they practice and apply their skills with these consumable notebooks. Each features a four-page lesson for 36 different sorts including picture and/or word cards for children to cut out and grids for sorting and pasting their cards.

The ideal stage-specific companion to Words Their Way: Word Study for Phonics, Vocabulary, and Spelling Instruction. In keeping with the authors' belief that the hands-on word sorting approach to word study is invaluable to teachers and students alike, this volume presents a complete curriculum of word study for students who are in the syllables and affixes stage of spelling development. Complete with 58 sorts, specific teacher directions, suggestions for follow-up activities, and spell checks for ongoing assessment, this collection of sorts presents 24 words each week. The new edition includes clearly stated generalizations for each lesson, step-by-step directions for each sort, and a new pacing chart and goal setting record form. Together, the Words Their Way core text and this supplement provide teachers with the knowledge and tools to meet the wide range of needs in today's classrooms.

Aimed at facilitating cross-context dialogue & knowledge exchange, this volume brings together an international roster of scholars to offer theoretical perspectices, research reviews & empirical studies on teaching, learning & language development in immersion education.

A hands-on, developmentally driven approach to word study that shows teachers how to integrate and teach PreK and kindergarten children phonics, vocabulary, and spelling skills. Based on the core philosophy of Words Their Way(R): Word Study for Phonics, Vocabulary and Spelling Instruction, the highly popular resource that has helped thousands of children improve their literacy skills, this book provides an in-depth guide to teaching young children the foundations of literacy in developmentally appropriate ways. Words Their Way(R): Word Study for Phonics, Vocabulary and Spelling Instruction has become a best seller in the world of in-service and pre-service education. Now the authors have taken that popular guide and created a book specifically devoted to the critical early years: Words Their Way(R) for PreK-K. By promoting the core philosophy of Words Their Way(R)-that word study is developmental in nature and instruction should reflect that development-Words Their Way(R) for PreK-K devotes whole chapters to each crucial component of a research-based literacy program, including: oral language development, alphabet, phonological awareness, concepts about print, phonics, and helping children develop a concept of word and word recognition. Throughout, the authors present well-established instructional strategies, activities, and detailed lesson plans that reference the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts, An outstanding online assessment tool, PDToolKit, is available to purchasers of the book. Words Their Way(R) for PreK-K gives teachers the benefit of: Rich, online resources to help teachers implement a complete literacy program, including access to PDToolkit. Hands-on, developmentally appropriate, research-based information that guides teachers in working effectively with students individually. Complete coverage of the foundations of literacy in an approach that's accessible for both pre- and in-service teachers. Spot-on lesson plans designed to keep teachers on top of working with the Common Core State Standards for kindergarten.

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