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Words Their Way

by goose

Aug 4, 2010

Thanks to all who have shared ideas and documents they use for Words Their Way. I plan to use this for the first time this year and have read the research/theory book and several of the word sort books. For those of you who have done this for awhile:

1. How difficult was it to get parents to understand the difference from traditional spelling programs? In 2nd grade, ours are used to the standard list that goes home (10-12 words) to study (memorize) for a Friday test. From what I gather from the books, the only thing that goes home is a copy of the word sort for that week with as many as 21 words sometimes. Then the teacher chooses any 10 to call out on Friday and they should be able to get them. Is that right? So they won't know exactly which words will be on the test?

2. If that is what they are saying, is there any strategy for which 10 words to choose for the test? Do you include oddballs for that week on the test?

3. Do you expect sorting homework for ev...See More

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Jaimee On 8/04/10, goose wrote: > Thanks to all who have shared ideas and documents they use > for Words Their Way. I plan to use this for the first time > this year and have read the research/theory book and > several of the word sort books. For those of you who have > done this for awhile: > > 1. How difficult was it to get parents ...See MoreOn 8/04/10, goose wrote: > Thanks to all who have shared ideas and documents they use > for Words Their Way. I plan to use this for the first time > this year and have read the research/theory book and > several of the word sort books. For those of you who have > done this for awhile: > > 1. How difficult was it to get parents to understand the > difference from traditional spelling programs? In 2nd > grade, ours are used to the standard list that goes home > (10-12 words) to study (memorize) for a Friday test. From > what I gather from the books, the only thing that goes home > is a copy of the word sort for that week with as many as 21 > words sometimes. Then the teacher chooses any 10 to call > out on Friday and they should be able to get them. Is that > right? So they won't know exactly which words will be on > the test? > > 2. If that is what they are saying, is there any strategy > for which 10 words to choose for the test? Do you include > oddballs for that week on the test? > > 3. Do you expect sorting homework for every night (M-Th)? > > I want to be able to explain this clearly at before school > conferences, so would appreciate any words of advice. > Thanks so much! > > Great program- been using it for years. We have 5 high frequency words and 10 sort words each week . There are a variety of activities that we use with the program and the homework is as follows: Mon Cut, sort and Write Tues- Rainbow write and 5 times each Wed- alphabetize the words Thurs,- Practice test

We also have used Spelling City on line, chalk writing their words, spelling stories, spelling sentences... It is an individualized program and I have had up to 4 groups in my room at a time. We go over the activities foe a few weeks with the kids so that they are comfortable with what to do before we send it home. On Monday, they simply get a list of the words with their math pages, and they know what to do. It works out nicely. Feel free to email me with any questions. We do love the program- the students get exactly what spelling patterns they are struggling with. :)

Aug 17, 2010

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