Words Their Way: Word Study for Phonics, Vocabulary, and Spelling Instruction (4th Edition) |  | Authors: Donald R. Bear, Marcia Invernizzi, Shane R. Templeton, Francine R. Johnston
Publisher: Prentice Hall
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ISBN: 013223968X
Dewey Decimal Number: 372.632
EAN: 9780132239684
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Publication Date: May 21, 2007
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This book would be very useful for both university reading courses and classroom teachers. I use Words Their Way both in my first grade classroom and with college students as a way to implement word study. Kristi McNeal, CSU Fresno Words Their Way's developmentally-driven, hands-on instructional approach has been a phenomenon in word study, providing a practical way to study words with students. The keys to this research-based approach are to know your students' literacy progress, organize for instruction, and implement word study. This streamlined book and the DVD and CD-ROM that accompany it gives you all the tools you need to carry out word study instruction that will motivate and engage your students, and help them to succeed in literacy learning. Ordered in a developmental format, Words Their Way complements the use of any existing phonics, spelling, and vocabulary curricula. Knowing Your Students *Streamlined Chapter 2 provides step by step guidelines for assessing students. *NEW! Words Their Way Word Study Resources CD: Assessment Planning and Additional Interactive Word Sorts contains computerized assessments to gauge students' developmental levels.* Word Study with English Learner sections in each chapter help you organize and adapt instruction to meet the needs of students whose first language is not English. Organizing for Instruction *NEW! Words Their Way DVD Tutorial: Planning for Word Study in K-8 Classrooms reinforces and illustrates classroom organization and management, as outlined in Chapter 3. *Word Study Routines and Management sections in every chapter give you practical guidance on managing and implementing word study in your classroom. *NEW! Tech Notes throughout chapters pinpoint opportunities for you to use the DVD and CD-ROM to prepare for instruction. Implementing Word Study *Classroom-proven, research-driven activities end each developmental chapter, giving you the instructional practices to get your word study instruction up and running immediately. *NEW! Words Their Way Word Study Resources CD: Assessment Planning and Additional Interactive Word Sorts provides more than just assessments. You'll also find hundreds of additional word and picture sorts, games and templates, and an interactive Create Your Own section.* The Appendix at the back of the book contains a comprehensive bank of word lists, word sorts, picture sorts, games and templates. The theory behind and practice for word sorts allows even the novice teacher to understand how to use the assessments to organize instruction. The organization of the last five chapters creates a useful resource for teachers. Each begins with a research-based description and moves into sound instructional practices, giving the teacher a complete understanding of how to meet the needs of students. Cathy Blanchfield, CSU Fresno Meet the Authors *Donald Bear is Director of the E.L. Cord Foundation Center for Learning and Literacy at the University of Nevada, Reno, assessing and teaching students who experience difficulties learning to read and write. A former preschool and elementary teacher, Donald currently researches literacy development with a special interest in students who speak languages other than English, and he partners with schools and districts to consider assessment and literacy instruction.* Marcia Invernizzi is Director of the McGuffey Reading Center at the University of Virginia exploring developmental universals in non-English orthographies. A former English and reading teacher, Marcia works with children experiencing difficulties learning to read and write in intervention programs such as Virginia's Early Intervention Reading Initiative and Book Buddies. *Shane Templeton is Foundation Professor of Literacy Studies at the University of Nevada, Reno. A former classroom teacher at the primary and secondary levels, he researches the development of orthographic and vocabulary knowledge *Francine Johnston is Associate Professor in the School of Education at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where she teaches reading, language arts, and children's literature. A former first-grade teacher and reading specialist.
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 Words My Way November 7, 2009
Anne Heath
This book was recommended to me by a co-worker. I was looking for some assessments to show reading growth. It provides excellent suggestions, and material to use with my students. I'm glad I got it.
Go for it teachers October 9, 2009
Cameron Wislon
This book is an asset in the classroom. It helped me to understand how children perceive, understand and make meaning out of text.
Words Their Way - good addition to our library September 3, 2009
JoAnn Araya (Westfield, NJ)
This book was recommended by a college professor to help me teach my child to read and is an excellent addition to our reading library.
 Loved this book, but... July 12, 2009
met (in IA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Facing a 1st-2nd combination classroom of 30 students this year, I bought this book to help me learn more about word study and how to get rid of some of the paperwork of teaching. After reading it, I feel more confident about how to go about engaging all of my students in developmentally appropriate instruction in spelling, vocabulary, and phonics. I plan on making several sets of cards on two-toned cardstock (quite an undertaking with three stages of learners in my room!), but it will further reduce paper usage. I DID receive the DVD and CD with my book, but I was disappointed that I couldn't access any of the sorts or games on the CD (maybe that's why they quit including it). I feel cheated out of material that I really could have used. I would order the WTW stage books or Word Journeys over this book because it does give you ready-made sorts and literature connections for the word hunts.
Words Their Way July 1, 2009
D. Tingen (Baltimore)
Words Their Way: Word Study for Phonics, Vocabulary, and Spelling Instruction (4th Edition) (Words Their Way Series)
This is a wonderful addition to the library of a Reading Specialist or any teacher wanting to increase thinking and learning in their Reading classroom. It covers K-10th grade students.
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