[MOSAIC] Words Their Way

[cathymillr at aol.com]

Great news about WTW. I am giving the spelling inventory this week to a small group of 4th grade struggling readers, then I plan to go from there. I have these kids based on dibels to work on fluency primarily, but I expanded to work on comprehension and word work. Thanks for the insight.

Cathy 
DE
k-5


-----Original Message-----
From: Kate Lino <klino72 at hotmail.com>
To: Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group <mosaic at literacyworkshop.org>
Sent: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 7:56 am
Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Words Their Way



This is my first year to use WTW, but I have seen really good results so far. I 
ave the assessment at the beginning of the school year and just gave one at the 
eginning of the second 9 weeks to see if there was any progress. Almost all of 
y students made improvements, so that was really exciting to me to be able to 
ee the results of the program. I was also able to reorganize my groups  based 
n the data from the second assessment. I have four groups: one is focused on 
hort vowel sounds, one on diagraphs and blends, one on long vowel sounds and 
ne on inflected endings (I have a very diverse group of learners this year ... 
 lot of extremes). I have them bring their word sort cards to reading groups 
very day and the first five minutes they do their sorts. One day I might have 
hem do a speed sort, another day they may pair up with someone in the group who 
as the same word list and they may do a "no-peeking" sort with one another. The 
arents have been extremely supportive and seem to like the program, too. I 
ould go on and on about how much I like the program! I am seeing that it is not 
nly helping their spelling, but also helping in their decoding and reading. 
ope that helps!

ate
nd/NC

> > I would be interested in hearing from anyone who is currently using this 
rogram.? >
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