Welcome
Balanced Literacy- Word Work & Spelling
Why discuss word work?
Part
of The Daily 5 framework.
This is the aspect of The Daily 5
which has raised the most questions.
Critical aspect of our literacy
instruction.
Turn & Talk
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Turn and talk with a person who is not teaching in
your grade level.
Discuss your familiarity level with The Daily 5 book
by The Sisters?
Discuss what you have tried from The Daily 5 so far.
What has gone well?
What has been challenging?
Be prepared to share one thought with the larger
group.
The Daily 5 Framework
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Read to self
Read to someone
Work on writing
Listen to reading
Spelling/Word Study
The Daily 5: Word Work
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“Creating and maintaining a time during each
literacy block to focus on words is critical to
developing readers, writers, and communicators.”
Gail Boushey & Joan Moser
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Word Study Includes:
Experimenting with words & spelling patterns
Memorizing high-frequency words
Generalizing spelling patterns
Adding to knowledge of words
Lessons
Sample lessons
for word work-Pg. 89
of The Daily Five.
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Sample I-Charts
for word work-Pg. 86-90.
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Word work focuses
on spelling &
vocabulary
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Whole Class Vocabulary K2 Video: The Sisters
Community Language
Board Video: The Sisters
The Sisters’ Focus Lessons for
Word Work
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Word Sorts
Adding words to their collection
Add words in their word study notebooks
Practicing basic words most often misspelled
Open word sort (student creates sort criteria) and writes words
in word-study notebook
Closed word sort (teacher choose sort categories) and
students write words in word-study notebook
List words that belong to a pattern and add to notebook
Examples of Word Learning
Teaching Strategies
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What does it look like? Sound like? Feel
like?
Choice Literacy’s Word Study Sampler
Introduction
Choice Literacy Word Work
Sampler Video
Word Learning Podcast
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“Making Word Learning Fun for All Students”
by Douglas Fisher & Nancy Frey
5 Components Taught Through Gradual Release:
 Make it intentional
 Make it transparent
 Make it usable
 Make it personal
 Make it a priority
Vocabulary
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“Teaching Key Vocabulary”
Teaching Key Vocabulary Podcast
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3 Ways Students Build Knowledge of Words & Meanings:
-Wide Reading
-Explicit Instruction
-Learning in an Exciting Word-Learning Environment
“10 Important Words” Exercise
“10 Important Words Plus” Exercise
Handout of article from The Reading Teacher mentioned.
Phonics Through Shared Reading
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Shared reading is one of the
components of the balanced
literacy model. Teacher primarily
reads, but engages students in
choral reading.
IRA’s podcast demonstrates how
phonics can be taught through
the shared reading experience.
Phonics Through Shared Reading
Podcast
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Handout of article mentioned in the
podcast from The Reading Teacher.
Spelling
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“The purpose of word study is twofold. First, through active
exploration, word study teaches students to examine words to
discover regularities, patterns, and conventions of English needed to
read and spell. Second, word study increases specific knowledge of
words—the spelling and meaning of individual words.”
-Authors of Words Their Way, Bear, Invernizzi, Templeton, Johnston
Spelling Lesson Examples
Spelling Rules Video
http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid72342307001?
bclid=26524393001&bctid=7239587001
Investigating “oo” Video
http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid72342307001?
bclid=23711458001&bctid=1883577618
Investigating “a” Video
http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid72342307001?
bclid=23711458001&bctid=1885473999
Discovering Generalizations About Plurals Video
http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid72342307001?
bclid=23711458001&bctid=1884170262
Hands-On Word Activities
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Break into groups of three.
Read the instructions you are given
and complete the word activity
described.
Be prepared to share with the larger
group about what your activity consists
of and how you think you could use this
in the classroom.
Spelling Lesson Demonstrations
Letters vs. Phonemes Video
http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid7234
2307001?bclid=26524393001&bctid=7237516
001
Phonemic Substitutions Video
http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid7234
2307001?bclid=26524393001&bctid=7239592
001
Looking at Phonemes Video
http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid7234
2307001?bclid=26524393001&bctid=7237514
001
Phonemic Segmentation
http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid7234
2307001?bclid=23711457001&bctid=7237512
001
Spelling Lesson Demonstrations
Continued…
Exploring the /ay/ Sound
http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid7234
2307001?bclid=23711458001&bctid=1885474
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Visual Input
http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid7234
2307001?bclid=26524393001&bctid=7237212
001
Learning High-Frequency Words
http://link.brightcove.com/services/playe
r/bcpid72342307001?bclid=237114
58001&bctid=1883577623
Digraphs
http://link.brightcove.com/services/playe
r/bcpid72342307001?bclid=265243
93001&bctid=7239608001
Word Girl
This link takes you to a show on PBS
called Word Girl. It is a great tool for
improving students’ vocabularies.
 Students can log in and watch many
episodes on-line.
Word Girl
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Professional Exploration
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Use a mini laptop to explore one of the following websites for word
work tools for your classroom. Type the following URL in your
address bar:
http://www.johnsoncreek.k12.wi.us/faculty/mentings/wordwork.cfm#
d163355
Utilize one of the professional books here to find pages you would
like to copy for your word center.
Take time to further explore any of the hands-on activities that are
here.
Read through the handouts provided & be ready to share one great
thing you learned!