[MOSAIC] advice on phonics minilessons/vocabulary

[Kimberly Stapert]

I  know that many of you have discussed Words Their Way by Bear, et al.  
  Our district is using this and I use it weekly with different groups  
of students.  I brought this book to a Literacy Coach Network meeting  
here in Grand Rapids, MI.  What was alarming that many people were  
unaware of the wonderful supplemental books that Words Their Way put  
out to help in the making and using of sorts.  There is one book per  
each developmental spelling level.  The assessment itself is found in  
the original Words Their Way book, but these supplemental books have  
saved me HOURS of time.  I bought all of them at Amazon.  You can't  
really buy just one or 2 because your students in the classroom are  
often as several different developmental levels.  I teach gr. 1 and 2.   
However, since the original book has some activities as well as  a CD  
Rom and word lists  with blank sort sheets, you could buy a couple  
books that target the levels that most of your students might be  
operating.  For ex. in 2nd grade, I primarily use the within word and  
syllables/affixes.  I have a pretty high group.  I'd also consider the  
letter name one for 1st and  low 2nds.

I do a training  in WTW (Words Their Way) here in Grand Rapids and love  
the philosophy.  If anyone has questions, feel free to email me offline  
(or on I guess).

There are 5 supplemental books, in order of difficulty are:
Words Their Way: Letter and Picture Sorts for Emergent Speller
Words Their Way: Word Sorts for Letter Name Alphabetic Spellers
Words Their Way: Word Sorts for Within Word Pattern Spellers
Words Their Way:  Word Sorts for Syllables and Affixes Spellers
Words Their Way: Word Sorts for Derivational Relations Spellers

Kim

On Jan 15, 2007, at 1:27 PM, Olga Reynolds wrote:

> Joy----I need to address all the compnents of word
> knowledge--from letter names, sounds, formations---to
> word enrichment (sorting,synonyms, antonyms---all
> these and also infuse it a "Reading First" program
> that focuses on narrow knowledge aquisition and
> testing.
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> what I like about the minilessons is the ability to
> customize lessons for individual students easily---cut
> and paste even on the computer is time consuming!  And
> I can do differnt minilessons for different kids and
> have appropriate manipulatives for practice readily
> available.   The lessons seem to be a combination of
> all the best things from a variety of programs such as
> project read, 4 blocks, CELL, etc,  I need to teach
> hands on and feel that students are learning when
> working independtly---Well  i may have rambled---but
> what do you think now??  The resources cd apparently
> comes in doc format so that it is easily modifiable.
>
> olga
>
> --- Joy <jwidmann at rocketmail.com> wrote:
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>> Olga,
>>   If you want to build vocabulary, then I would
>> suggest you investigate Marzano and Pickering's
>> book, Building Academic Vocabualry. It costs about
>> $30
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>>   jwidmann at rocketmail.com
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