Word Study: A Differentiated Approach to Spelling Instruction
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Word Study: A Word Study: A Differentiated Approach to Differentiated Approach to
Spelling InstructionSpelling Instruction
What is word study?A developmental instructional model for teaching phonics, decoding and vocabulary.
Students learn to recognize patterns instead of memorizing every single letter of every single word.
What is word study? Word study teaches students to
examine and discover regularities, patterns, and rules by comparing and contrasting words.
Word study increases specific knowledge of words--the spelling and meaning of individual words.
Features to study Phonics and vocabulary instruction
based on assessment information
Developmental progression based on phonetic/spelling/writing research A suggested progress will be
provided
Features students use and confuse while reading or writing Ex. Short e and long ie
Stages of Spelling Development
Emergent
Letter name
Within word
Syllable and affixessamplerecordrecord
Derivational relations
combinecombination
Pre-K to early K
scribbles and random letters
K to 2nd
write one letter for most of the sounds that they hear
1st to 5th
learn that more than one letter can represent a sound within a word
3rd to 9th
single syllable patterns apply to words with more than one syllable, accented syllables
5th+
meaning of a word is related to it’s spelling
Word Study Stages Letter Name Within Word Syllables and Affixes Derivational Relations
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Letter Name Characteristics
Represent most salient sounds (K, or T or CT/cat)
Concept of Word Beginning Readers: Fingerpoint
Tracking Beginning Writers: A few
sentences “Break the Code”
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Letter Name Features Beginning and ending sounds
Short vowels- bet
Blends & Digraphs- chat, drip, best
Preconsonantal Nasals- pink
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Within Word Pattern Features
Common long vowel patterns (cake) -r control vowel patterns (girl, fair) Homophones (main, mane, Maine) Complex consonant clusters
(scratch) Ambiguous vowel patterns (couch,
boy)
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Syllables and Affixes Intermediate Readers & Writers Read a range of genres and can
apply to their writing Focus on 2 syllable words in the
spelling Issue: To double or not to double? Beginning to address the spelling-
meaning connection
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Syllables & Affixes Features
Consonant Doubling: hoping/hopping Long Vowel patterns in 2 syllable
words: parade, parading -r control patterns in stressed
syllable: disturb Unstressed syllable vowel patterns:
trample, solar Some suffixes and prefixes: -ly, -ness, re-, in-
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Derivational Relations Advanced Readers and Writers Mastered high frequency words Examine polysyllabic words with a
focus on meaning Examine words with Greek and
Latin Roots Vocabulary Building
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Derivational Relations Features
Silent/sounded consonants (sign/signal) Consonant changes (explode/explosion) Vowel/Sound changes (reduce/reduction) Greek/Latin roots and derivatives
(photograph/visible) Assimilated prefixes (immature, illegible)
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Tiers of Orthography and Corresponding Developmental
Stages of SpellingSound
Letter Name
a. 1:1 correspondence of sound to letters
b. Apply the alphabet literally
c. Word by word readers and writers
Pattern
Within Word Pattern
a. Words have more letters than sounds
b. Silent letters form patterns
c. Movement from disfluency to phrasal fluency in reading and writing
Meaning
Syllables & Affixes
Derivational Relations
a. Meaning units form or join syllables
b. Meaning units connect across derivations
c. Fluent readers and writers
Case Study 1What level of speller am
I? Spelled scrape- skrape or
scrap switch- swech Knotted- knated Within word speller
Who has a within word speller?
Share the spelling a few words.
Case Study 2What level of speller am
I? Spelled confidence- confedenc
visible- viseble circumference-
sircomference Derivational relations
speller
Who has a derivational relations
speller?
Share the spelling of a few words.
Case Study 3What level of speller am
I? Spelled trapped- traped squirt- sqirt pounce- puns crater- crator Syllable juncture speller
Who has a syllable juncture speller?
Share the spelling of a few words.
Lets look at your assessments
1. Complete the feature guide for each student.
Lets look at the example, pg. 35 Complete the feature guide for
one of your students. Determine their spelling level.
2. Rank order the students by the number of words spelled correctly.
3. Complete the Classroom Composite Chart and determine groups.
Let’s look at p. 41
Where to begin instruction
If misspelled the first two letters of switch, trapped, shaving or crater
Give the students the Elementary Spelling Inventory and begin with letter name sorts with blends
Where to begin instruction
If spelled the first two letters in first two letters of switch, trapped, shaving or crater correctly but didn’t get all of the vowels correct
Begin within words sort 1
Where to begin instruction If spelled all of the vowels
correctly in words 1-6 Give the spell check on p. 70
If pass begin with within word sort 31 if not begin with within word sort 25
Where to begin instruction
Anyone feel they may have a student who needs to start beyond within word sort 31?
Instruction
Sort introduction Explain the sorts Show the headers Do the sort with the students Ask the students to sort on
their own
Instruction Partner sorts Speed sorts Games Spelling checks
Includes 2 or 3 words not on the list
/ou/
ou bounty council Devour fountain mouthwash
ow allow brownie coward dowry prowler
Students will examine these words and determine that these words have the same sound but are spelled differently. They will play games and manipulate these words throughout the week.
Instruction If mastered
move to next sort
If did not master repeat sort again with new words with same feature
Find additional words and template in WTW or Word Journeys
Beginning Word Study Instruction
1 week and ½ to prepare Begin October 10 Complete instead of Advanced Word Study
Questions????