Word Study

Presented by Shannon Lockard [email protected]

Entry Task:

As a team, list as many words as you can on the paper at your table, that have the root word aqua or aque

District Goal # 1. Teaching and Learning: Create a personalized learning environment where students achieve rigorous standards through quality instruction.

Key Actions: 1.4 Quality Instruction

1.4.1 By 2009, implement and evaluate plan to provide a personalized learning environment that allows for individualized and differentiated instruction to meet students’ needs.

Content and Instructional Approaches:

2. Balanced Literacy 6. Guided Language Acquisition Design

LANGUAGE AND LITERACY FRAMEWORK 3-5

Language and Word Study

Interactive Read Aloud Interactive Edit Test Reading/Writing Current Events Modeled or Shared Reading/Writing Reader’s Theater/Process Drama Interactive Vocabulary Choral Reading Handwriting Mini-lessons Poetry Sharing/Response Word Study Mini-lessons Oral, Visual and Technological Communication Communication, Presentation Performance/Drama, Visual Representation Independent Reading

Reading Workshop

Book talks/Mini-lessons Guided Reading Literature Study

Writing Workshop

Writer Talks/Mini-lessons Independent Writing Guided Investigations Writing Group Share and Evaluation Group Share and Evaluation

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Emergent Stage Letter Name—Alphabetic Stage

Within Word Pattern Stage Syllables and Affixes Derivational Relations

 Language Arts  History

 1.2.2 Apply a variety of strategies to comprehend words and ideas in complex text.

 Connect to Cognitive Content Dictionary  Keep root, suffix, or prefix for a week

 Root word in the center  Branches from root with derived words and meanings  Twigs from the branches of other forms of the derived word

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Homophone sort

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Homophone dictionary

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Homophone Rummy

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Bear, D., Invernizzi, M., Templeton, S., & Johnson, F. (2004). Words Their Way: Word Study for phonics, vocabulary, and spelling instruction (3 rd Ed.) Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.

Bloodgood, J.W.; Pacifici, L.C. “Bringing Word Study to Intermediate Classrooms”. The Reading Teacher, November 2004.

http//www.all-about-spelling.com/list-of homophones.html