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Words Their Way ™

Word Study for Phonics, Vocabulary, and Spelling Instruction

Fourth EditionBy Donald R. BearMarcia InvernizziShane TempletonFrancine Johnston

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How will Words Their Way help you improve your students reading and writing abilities?

By helping you know your students and their needs

By helping your organize for instruction

By helping you implement word study

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Knowing Your StudentsStreamlined Chapter 2 provides

step by step guidance for evaluating your students to determine their developmental levels, allowing you to begin instruction and build students’ abilities to help them move on to the next stage in development.

Research-driven assessment tools allow you to find your students’ stage of spelling development.

The CD in the back of the book contains all assessment tools discussed in the book and more.

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Knowing Your Students

Characteristics Charts

In Chapters 4 through 8 help you pinpoint information to guide your decisions making about each student in each stage of development.

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Knowing Your StudentsWord Study with

English Learners sections

In Chapters 4 – 8 provide targeted guidance to help students master English.

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Organizing for Instruction

Word Study Routines and Management sections give you practical guidance on managing and implementing word study in your classroom.

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Organizing for Instruction

Tech Notes direct your attention to DVD segments that aid in organizing your classroom.

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Organizing for Instruction

Lesson Plan FormatThis simple four-part

lesson plan helps you organize your word study instruction.

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Implementing Word Study

Stage appropriate activities proven to help students develop into the next stage end each developmental chapter.

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Implementing Word StudyThe Appendix at the

back of the text contains hundreds of word sorts, game templates, and classroom-ready resources.

APPENDIX A Assessment MaterialsAPPENDIX B SoundboardsAPPENDIX C Pictures for Sorts and GamesAPPENDIX D Sample Word Sorts by Spelling

StageAPENDIX E Word ListsAPPENDIX F Games and Templates for SortsAPPENDIX G Resources

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Integrating Media

The text comes with two pieces of media

Words Their Way DVD Tutorial

Words Their Way Word Study Resources CD

CD Assessment Database

CD Word Sorting Application

Look for Tech Notes throughout chapters to connect you to the most appropriate information on the accompanying media.

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Media Integration: Knowing Your StudentsWords Their Way Word Study Resources CD

Computerized assessments in the Assessment Database calculate each student’s feature knowledge and helps you place students in appropriate developmental groups.

Additional assessments help you assess content area, Spanish language , and other word feature knowledge.

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Media Integration: Organizing for InstructionWords Their Way DVD Tutorial

The DVD reinforces and illustrates classroom organization and management. Classroom footage leads you through daily instruction, assessment, organization and grouping, and adapting instruction for English learners.

DVD Modules Assessment and

Evaluation Classroom Organization Word Sorting Emergent Stage Letter Name-Alphabetic

Stage Within Word Pattern Stage Syllables and Affixes Stage Derivational Relations

Stage

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Media Integration: Implementing Word StudyWords Their Way Word Study Resources CD

The Word Sorting Application on the CD in the back of the book contains

hundreds of additional word and picture sorts, games and templates

Interactive Create Your Own software for each developmental stage

Robust coverage of word study appropriate for students whose first language is Spanish.