Name
Melissa Bradshaw
Student Grade Level
Second Grade
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This student is in the late within word spelling stage. Students in this stage have mastered the long vowel pattern, but are still having trouble with
ambiguous and r-influenced vowels. She began to lose a lot of feature points on the “inflected endings” column, which places her in the late within
word stage, but she is very close to moving on to the early syllables and affixes stage. Her strengths include initial and final consonants, short vowels,
digraphs, blends, and common long vowels. Her weaknesses include inflected endings, syllable junctures, unaccented final syllables, harder suffixes,
and bases or roots. In the last two sections combined, she only received one feature point. Her instructional needs should be centered around working
on mastering inflected endings at this time.
which she seemed to struggle.
Objectives for week: Students will sort words with inflected endings. Students will understand that the ending of a word affects the way it is pluralized.
Students will get further practice with writing correct sentences, including capitalization and punctuation.
SOLs for week: 2.5— The student will use phonetic strategies when reading and spelling.
2.13— The student will edit writing for correct grammar, capitalization, punctuation, and
spelling.
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Students will receive new
word study words to cut out
and sort. This will be an open
sort, so I will be sure to
remove any kind of header
that has the sort listed at the
top, to see how the students
think about sorting these
words.
Students will begin word
study by taking out their bag
of words and sorting them to
review.
Students will begin word
study by pulling out their bag
of words and sorting them to
review.
Students will pair up to play a
game of “Word War.”
After they have been sorted,
they will use their words to
write correct and complete
sentences in their word study
notebook. Students must
choose seven of their words
to use in a sentence.
Students will begin word
study with a pre-test. I will
call out ten words: boxes,
dresses, mixes, fences,
guesses, cows, dishes,
brushes, watches, and buses.
Students will take a spelling
test on their words from the
week. Of the eighteen words,
I will test them on twelve of
them: farms, buses, gases,
boxes, horses, churches, axes,
mixes, dishes, and guesses
The sort this week is adding –
s or –es to words based on
their ending. I will let
students try to figure out on
their own at first. If some are
still struggling after
attempting on their own, I
One student will have a set of
cards that has the singular
version of their word study
words written on them. The
other student will have a set
of cards with the endings –s
and –es written on them.
Each student will flip over a
card and they will decide if
Early finishers can try to see
how many of their words they
can use in one grammatically
correct sentence, with correct
Students will write the word,
and then immediately check it
by looking at their sheet of
words. If it is spelled
correctly, they will leave it
alone. If it is spelled
incorrectly, they will write the
correct spelling next to their
original spelling. I will collect
these to see what words the
At the end of the spelling test,
I will give a bonus sentence
that the students will attempt
to spell that includes a few of
their words. They will get two
bonus points if the sentence
is spelled correctly, and if it
has correct capitalization and
punctuation. The sentence
will scaffold by asking the
students to look at the base
of the word (look at church in
the word churches, or horse
in the word horses). “Are
there any similarities in those
endings? Now add the plural
endings back on, and see if
the words with common
endings have anything else in
common?”
that ending goes with that
word. If it does, then they put
them together and put them
off to the side. If it does not,
then they will both pick up
their cards, and put it at the
bottom of their deck.
capitalization and
punctuation.
students are struggling with
the most.
Homework: Study word study
words.
Homework: Write 2 more
complete sentences using
words that you did not use at
school today.
Homework: Study word study
words. Spelling test
tomorrow!
As a whole group, after
students have sorted words
individually, we will discuss
the sort. I will ask students to
tell me how they sorted their
words. I will then explain how
words that end in -s, -x, -sh
and -ch all have -es as their
plural ending.
Students will then write their
words separated by sort in
their word study notebooks.
Homework: Study word study
words.
will be: The farmer dresses up
his horses to walk by the
churches.
cows
boxes
dresses
guesses
foxes
fences
gases
buses
mixes
ashes
churches
passes
farms
dishes
horses
watches
axes
brushes