Word Study: Words Their Way!
September 22nd, 2014
Dear Parent(s)/Guardian(s),
This week we are starting our word study program, Words Their Way!
Words Their Way is a program that helps students become better spellers
and writers by introducing words and patterns developmentally. Each
student was assessed to determine his or her strengths and weaknesses when
spelling and was placed accordingly. More information is listed below.
Word lists will be given once a week for classwork and homework
accompanied by a choice board that can be found in the word study section
of your student’s binder. We encourage you to engage in and monitor your
child’s sorting of the words each night and help him or her complete their
choice board activities.
Our program will follow a five-day cycle. Please see the schedule
below to determine which day your child’s new word list will be coming
home and which day he or she will be assessed.
For the first week, all students will have the same sort. We will be
taking a mock assessment on Friday. I want to spend a week with the kids,
modeling how the program works
Thank you in advance for working with your child each week to learn
his or her new word list!
Miss McShea 
Word Study Schedule and Placement
Your child placed in the “within word” group. In this stage, students are able to
correctly spell most single-syllable, short vowel words, beginning consonant digraphs,
and two letter consonant blends. They also attempt to use silent long-vowel markers and
use but confuse long vowel patterns. Our focus will be long vowels, other common long
vowel patterns, r-influenced vowel patterns, dipthongs and vowel digraphs, complex
consonant clusters, and homophones.
Pink
Group
Monday
*NEW
WORD
LIST
Tuesday
Choose
from
Choice
Board
Wednesday Thursday
Choose
Choose
from
from
Choice
Choice
Board
Board
Friday
Assessment
*Your child’s group color is pink and will begin studying common long
vowel sounds in sort #13. New word lists will be given on Monday and
students will be assessed on Friday.
September 22nd, 2014
Dear Parent(s)/Guardian(s),
Word Study: Words Their Way!
This week we are starting our word study program, Words Their Way!
Words Their Way is a program that helps students become better spellers
and writers by introducing words and patterns developmentally. Each
student was assessed to determine his or her strengths and weaknesses when
spelling and was placed accordingly. More information is listed below.
Word lists will be given once a week for classwork and homework
accompanied by a choice board that can be found in the word study section
of your student’s binder. We encourage you to engage in and monitor your
child’s sorting of the words each night and help him or her complete their
choice board activities.
Our program will follow a five-day cycle. Please see the schedule
below to determine which day your child’s new word list will be coming
home and which day he or she will be assessed.
For the first week, all students will have the same sort. We will be
taking a mock assessment on Friday. I want to spend a week with the kids,
modeling how the program works
Thank you in advance for working with your child each week to learn
his or her new word list!
Miss McShea 
Word Study Schedule and Placement
Your child placed in the “syllables and affixes” word study group. In this
stage, students connect word knowledge with vocabulary growth. They can correctly
spell most single-syllable short-vowel and long vowel words and high frequency
words. They make errors at syllable juncture points and in unaccented syllables.
Our focus will be on compound words, inflected endings, open and closed syllables,
accented syllables, unaccented syllables, and prefixes and suffixes.
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday Thursday
Friday
New
Choose
Choose
Choose from
Test
word sort from choice from choice choice board
board
board
*Your child’s group color is orange and will begin studying inflected
endings in sort #2. New word lists will be given on Monday and students
will be assessed on Friday of the following week.
Orange
September 22nd, 2014
Dear Parent(s)/Guardian(s),
Word Study: Words Their Way!
This week we are starting our word study program, Words Their Way!
Words Their Way is a program that helps students become better spellers
and writers by introducing words and patterns developmentally. Each
student was assessed to determine his or her strengths and weaknesses when
spelling and was placed accordingly. More information is listed below.
Word lists will be given once a week for classwork and homework
accompanied by a choice board that can be found in the word study section
of your student’s binder. We encourage you to engage in and monitor your
child’s sorting of the words each night and help him or her complete their
choice board activities.
Our program will follow a five-day cycle. Please see the schedule
below to determine which day your child’s new word list will be coming
home and which day he or she will be assessed.
For the first week, all students will have the same sort. We will be
taking a mock assessment on Friday. I want to spend a week with the kids,
modeling how the program works
Thank you in advance for working with your child each week to learn
his or her new word list!
Miss McShea 
Word Study Schedule and Placement
Your child placed in the “syllables and affixes” word study group. In
this stage, students connect word knowledge with vocabulary growth. They
can correctly spell most single-syllable short-vowel and long vowel words and
high frequency words. They make errors at syllable juncture points and in
unaccented syllables. Our focus will be on compound words, inflected
endings, open and closed syllables, accented syllables, unaccented syllables,
and prefixes and suffixes.
Monday
Teal
New sort
Tuesday
Choose from
choice board
Wednesday
Choose from
choice board
Thursday
Choose from
choice board
Friday
Test
*Your child’s group color is teal and will begin studying unaccented final syllables in sort
#7. New word lists will be given on Monday and students will be assessed on Friday of
the following week.