Word Study Activities
Thursday ................................................................................ Closed Sort & Journal
Friday ......................................................................................................Choice Sort
Monday .............................................................................. Choice Sort& Sentences
Tuesday .......................................................................... Choice Sort & Free Choice
Wednesday ...................................................................... Assessment (old words) &
Open Sort & Journal (new words)
As you study your word study features you need to sort your words everyday! Even if you
choose to complete assignments on alternative days, you need to be sorting EVERYDAY!!!
Descriptions
Open Sort: Students choose categories and sort words. Can be concepts or features.
Journal: Write at least three sentences about how your words are divided into categories.
Closed Sort: Students sort words into given guide words.
Sentences Write SOM sentences for at least 10 words. Sentences should convey the meaning of the word.
SAW: Sort, Alphabetize, and Write
Blind Sort: Use given guide-words and as a partner calls the words to you, write them under the appropriate
category. (Based on features).
Assessment: Will be different words that have the same feature as word cards. Earn 2 points for a correct
spelling; earn 1 point for incorrect spelling with correct feature; earn 0 points for incorrect feature.
Speed Sort: Sort words quickly under given guidewords.
Choice Sort: You may choose to do a closed sort, blind sort or speed sort
Free Choice Activities
Change A Letter: Using your words, change a letter or a word part to create a new word. For example,
capmap, flagflap, notnut.
Hink Pinks: Write at least 10 rhyming words and clues.
Operations: Add or subtract letters to create new words (confidentialconfident).
Rhyme Time: Play with a partner. Each person makes a list of words that rhyme with a sort word. After 60
seconds, compare lists. One point is earned for each unique word. (Similar to Scattergories.) If a word
rhymes but has a different feature (such as seed and read), 2 points are earned.
SAW: Sort, Alphabetize, and Write
Word Hunt: Cut out words from a newspaper or magazine. Sort these words into the features you are studying.
Glue them down on a sheet of paper in the sorted pattern.
Color Code: Write your words using a color code to show the feature in each word. The feature of each column
in your sort should be a color and all of the letters not part of the feature should be in pencil or black.
Syllables: Sort your words and then write them separating syllables. (You may only do this if you have more
than 15 2+ syllable words)
Analogies: Use 10 of your words to create analogies. (Ex. Sailor is to boat as driver is to car)
Extend: Come up with 10 additional words for your sort. Then sort these words into your features.
Ransom Words: Write your words by cutting out letters in a newspaper or magazine and
gluing them onto blank paper.