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Words Their Way: Letter-Name Alphabetic Sorts for Spanish-Speaking English Learners
Lori Helman
Donald R. Bear, University of Nevada-Reno
Marcia Invernizzi, University of Virginia
Shane R. Templeton, University of Nevada, Reno
Francine Johnston, University of North Carolina at Greensboro

ISBN-10: 0132421038
ISBN-13: 9780132421034

Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
Copyright: 2009
Format: Paper; 160 pp
Published: 06/09/2008

Suggested retail price: $19.99
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Words Their Way ™ Word Study for Letter Name-Alphabetic English Learners: Letter, Picture, and Concept Sorts for Spanish Speakers is a new text providing strategic assistance for teachers working with native Spanish speakers.  Based on the same solid research and using the same scope and sequence laid out in Words Their Way with English Learners, this companion volume begins with a series of picture concept sorts that teach students how to sort, providing guidance to help teachers make sorting meaningful.  The text develops a routine for introducing the English vocabulary, helping students learn the vocabulary before they sort. 

 

The words for study are selected based on their phonetic properties as well as their usefulness in reading, speaking and understanding grade level content.  The text addresses the needs of the letter name-alphabetic speller, whether young or not so young.  The text is careful to include sorts more appropriate for older learners, as well as advanced EL students needing more concept and vocabulary support.

  • Notes for Teachers
  • Standardized Weekly Routines
  • Literature Connections
  • Assessments
  • Reproducible word cards and picture cards to get your students underway

Sorts 1-5:    Concept Sorts for Vocabulary Development

Notes for the Teacher

Standard Weekly Routines for Use with Concept Sorts

Sorts 1-5 Concept Sorts for Vocabulary Development

Assessment of Concept Sorts

Sorts 6-9:    Beginning Consonant Sounds that are Similar in English and Spanish

Notes for the Teacher

Standard Weekly Routines for Use with Similar Initial Consonant Sound Sorts

Sorts 6-9

Spell Check 1

Sorts 10-13:    Beginning Consonant Sounds that are Distinct in Spanish and English

Notes for the Teacher

Standard Weekly Routines for Use with Distinct Initial Consonant Sound Sorts

Sorts 10-13

Spell Check 2

Sorts 14-18:    Beginning Consonant Sound Contrasts

Notes for the Teacher

Standard Weekly Routines for Use with Contrasting Problematic Initial Consonant Sound Sorts

Sorts 14-18

Spell Check 3

Sorts 19-34:    Beginning Consonant Digraphs and Blends

Notes for the Teacher

Standard Weekly Routines for Use with Initial Digraphs and Blends Sorts

Sorts 19-34

Spell Checks 4 and 5

Sorts 35-38:    Listening for Ending Sounds

Notes for the Teacher

Standard Weekly Routines for Use with Final Sound Sorts

Sorts 35-38

Spell Check 6

Sorts 39-43:    Vowel Sounds Picture Sorts

Notes for the Teacher

Standard Weekly Routines for Use with Vowel Sound Picture Sorts

Sorts 39-43

Assessment of Vowel Sounds

Sorts 44-58:    Same-Vowel Word Families with Pictures

Notes for the Teacher

Standard Weekly Routines for Use with Same Vowel Word Families

Sorts 44-58

Spell Checks 7 and 8

Sorts 59-63:    Mixed Vowel Word Families

Notes for the Teacher

Standard Weekly Routines for Use with Mixed Short Vowel Word Families

Sorts 59-63

Spell Check 9

Sorts 64-67:    Ending Sounds

Notes for the Teacher

Standard Weekly Routines for Use with Contrasting Final Sounds

Sorts 64-67

Spell Check 10

Sorts 68-72:    Short Vowels in CVC Words

Notes for the Teacher

Standard Weekly Routines for Use with Short Vowels in CVC Words

Sorts 68-72

Spell Check 11

Sorts 73-77:    Beginning Digraphs and Blends in CVC Words

Notes for the Teacher

Standard Weekly Routines for Use with Initial Digraphs and Blends

Sorts 73-77

Spell Check 12

Sorts 78-81:    Ending Digraphs and Blends in CVC Words

Notes for the Teacher

Standard Weekly Routines for Use with Final Digraphs and Blends

Sorts 78-81

Spell Check 13

What does the field have to say?

This text is an addition to a well-known and highly successful series.  The research base is well documented and the teaching strategies are classroom proven.  It doesn’t get any better than that.

Patricia Kelly, Virginia Tech

 

I was very excited when I saw the title of the book, and even more interested as I looked through it.  I think this is a valuable addition.

Marsha Riddle Buly

WesternWashingtonUniversity

Lori Helman

Lori Helman is Assistant Professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.  Her research focuses on the reading and spelling development of students learning English as a new language.  Helman was a bilingual teacher, a district literacy coordinator, and a new teacher leader in her region before coming to higher education.  She teaches classes in reading development for diverse students, effective instruction for students with reading difficulties, and leadership skills for reading specialists.

 

Donald R. Bear

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

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

Shane Templetonis 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

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.

 

 

One reality of today’s classrooms is the scarcity of materials available to teachers trying to support English learners’ literacy development.  The educators and researchers who developed Words Their Way ™ with English Learners, a phenomenon in word study, understand this challenge.  The cornerstone of the Words Their Way ™ approach to word study is the examination of the word knowledge students bring with them to instruction, building language and literacy competence naturally on that foundation. 

 

This approach is especially valuable for English learners, and this text is a companion piece of the series focusing on the specific needs of Spanish speakers.  It provides you with the reproducible sorts and step-by-step directions you’ll need to guide students through each sorting lesson. The week-by-week curriculum provided in this text will complement the use of any existing phonics, spelling, and reading curricula.

 

Word study is a powerful instructional method for teachers and their English-learning students.  Empower your students to grasp their new language at the word level, build skills to understand how English differs from Spanish, and develop the skills to explore word meaning through spelling. 

 

 Who are Letter-Name Alphabetic learners?

  • Kindergarteners to early third graders, as well as older newcomers to English who are at the beginning stage of reading

 

How does word study help these learners develop English language proficiency?

  • By building on students’ vocabularies in Spanish and the letter sounds that are common to both English and Spanish
  • By starting with the most common and high-utility English words
  • By teaching vocabulary through pictures and word-picture matching
  • By providing opportunities to explicitly compare and work with sounds in English that may require extra help for Spanish speakers

 

What does Words Their Way ™ Letter Name-Alphabetic Sorts for Spanish-Speaking English Learners provide to guide students toward this proficiency?

  • Notes for Teachers
  • Standardized Weekly Routines
  • Literature Connections
  • Assessments
  • Reproducible word cards and picture cards to get your students underway

 

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This title is a member of the Words Their Way Series, which also contains the titles below . You can also visit the Words Their Way Series page.

    Words Their Way ™ companion volumes, 2e

    We believe that the hands-on word sorting approach to word study is invaluable to you and your students.  These stage-specific companion volumes to Words Their Way: Word Study for Phonics, Vocabulary, and Spelling Instruction provide a complete curriculum of reproducible sorts and detailed directions for the teacher working with students in each stage of spelling development, from emergent through derivational relations. 

     

    This companion volume, the last in the series, provides word study for advanced readers and writers in the derivational relations stage of spelling development (Grades 5 – 12).  The text focuses on spelling and vocabulary knowledge that grow primarily through processes of derivation—from a single base word or word root to a number of related words derived through the addition of prefixes and suffixes. Additionally, students explore word origins and word spelling-meaning relationships.

  • 0135145783Words Their Way Word Sorts for Derivational Relations Spellers, 2/E
    Templeton, Johnston, Bear & Invernizzi
    © 2009 | Allyn & Bacon | Paper; 176 pages | Instock
    ISBN-10: 0135145783 | ISBN-13: 9780135145784
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    • Words Their Way ™ companion volumes, 2e

    We believe that the hands-on word sorting approach to word study is invaluable to you and your students.  These stage-specific companion volumes to Words Their Way: Word Study for Phonics, Vocabulary, and Spelling Instruction provide a complete curriculum of reproducible sorts and detailed directions for the teacher working with students in each stage of spelling development, from emergent through derivational relations. 

     

    This collection of word sorting activities is for students who are in the syllables and affixes stage of spelling development, typically intermediate or advanced readers and writers (Grades 3 to 8).  These students are ready to study multi-syllabic words—beginning with consonant doubling, plural endings and moving through the study of basic prefixes and suffixes. The sorts in this collection present 24 words each week, selected according to their frequency of occurrence in reading materials and allowing students to discover spelling generalizations or to compare syllable juncture features and patterns.

  • 0135145775Words Their Way Word Sorts for Syllables and Affixes Spellers, 2/E
    Johnston, Invernizzi, Bear & Templeton
    © 2009 | Allyn & Bacon | Paper; 144 pages | Instock
    ISBN-10: 0135145775 | ISBN-13: 9780135145777
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    •  

    Word study can be a powerful instructional method for teachers and their English learning students.  With this text, you can evaluate students’ langage needs.  Empower your students to grasp this new language at the word level, building skills to understand how English differs from their primary language,and providing them with the skills to predict word meaning through spelling.  Words Their Way with English Learners will help you build vocabulary, spelling, and word recognition skills in your English learners, giving them the foundation to master their new language.

     

    One reality of today’s classrooms is the limited help available to teachers trying to support English learners’ literacy skills.  The educators and researchers who developed Words Their Way understand this challenge.  Their original text, a phenomenon in word study, provides the proven framework and application to allow students to develop literacy skills.  And now they apply this approach to teaching English learners. 

     

    Based on the same solid research, Words Their Way with English Learners helps you determine what your students bring with them from their home languages, where their instruction in English orthography should begin, and how best to move these students through their development.

  • 0131915673Words Their Way with English Learners: Word Study for Spelling, Phonics, and Vocabulary Instruction
    Bear, Helman, Invernizzi, Templeton & Johnston
    © 2007 | Allyn & Bacon | Paper; 384 pages | Instock
    ISBN-10: 0131915673 | ISBN-13: 9780131915671
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    • Words Their Way ™ Emergent Sorts for Spanish Speaking English Learners is a new text providing strategic assistance for teachers working with native Spanish speakers.  Based on the same solid research and using the same scope and sequence laid out in Words Their Way with English Learners, this companion volume begins with a series of picture concept sorts that teach students how to sort, providing guidance to help teachers make sorting meaningful.  The text develops a routine for introducing the English vocabulary, helping students learn the vocabulary before they sort. 

     

    The words for study are selected based on their phonetic properties as well as their usefulness in reading, speaking and understanding grade level content.  The text addresses the needs of the emergent speller, whether young or not so young.  The text is careful to include sorts more appropriate for older learners.
  • 0132421437Words Their Way: Emergent Sorts for Spanish-Speaking English Learners
    Helman, Bear, Invernizzi, Templeton & Johnston
    © 2009 | Allyn & Bacon | Paper; 192 pages | Instock
    ISBN-10: 0132421437 | ISBN-13: 9780132421430
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    • Words Their Way ™ Word Study for Letter Name-Alphabetic English Learners: Letter, Picture, and Concept Sorts for Spanish Speakers is a new text providing strategic assistance for teachers working with native Spanish speakers.  Based on the same solid research and using the same scope and sequence laid out in Words Their Way with English Learners, this companion volume begins with a series of picture concept sorts that teach students how to sort, providing guidance to help teachers make sorting meaningful.  The text develops a routine for introducing the English vocabulary, helping students learn the vocabulary before they sort. 

     

    The words for study are selected based on their phonetic properties as well as their usefulness in reading, speaking and understanding grade level content.  The text addresses the needs of the letter name-alphabetic speller, whether young or not so young.  The text is careful to include sorts more appropriate for older learners, as well as advanced EL students needing more concept and vocabulary support.

  • 0132421038Words Their Way: Letter-Name Alphabetic Sorts for Spanish-Speaking English Learners
    Helman, Bear, Invernizzi, Templeton & Johnston
    © 2009 | Allyn & Bacon | Paper; 160 pages | Instock
    ISBN-10: 0132421038 | ISBN-13: 9780132421034
    Brief Description | Buy from myPearsonStore

    • Words Their Way ™ companion volumes, 2e

    We believe that the hands-on word sorting approach to word study is invaluable to you and your students.  These stage-specific companion volumes to Words Their Way: Word Study for Phonics, Vocabulary, and Spelling Instruction provide a complete curriculum of reproducible sorts and detailed directions for the teacher working with students in each stage of spelling development, from emergent through derivational relations. 

     

    Broaden your word study understanding and instruction with this expanded word sorting tool for week by week imiplementation with Letter Name-Alphabetic spellers (Grades K - 3).  This collection of sorts includes both picture and word sorts for students who are in the letter name-alphabetic stage of spelling development, beginning readers. Sorting lessons begin with picture sorts that quickly review initial consonants and then cover same-vowel word families and digraphs and blends. These sorting activities are followed by a short vowel study apart from word families and continue reviewing digraph and blends in CVC words. The last sorts introduce r-controlled vowels and contractions.   

  • 0135145805Words Their Way: Word Sorts for Letter Name - Alphabetic Spellers, 2/E
    Johnston, Bear, Invernizzi & Templeton
    © 2009 | Allyn & Bacon | Paper; 128 pages | Instock
    ISBN-10: 0135145805 | ISBN-13: 9780135145807
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    • Words Their Way ™ companion volumes, 2e

    We believe that the hands-on word sorting approach to word study is invaluable to you and your students.  These stage-specific companion volumes to Words Their Way: Word Study for Phonics, Vocabulary, and Spelling Instruction provide a complete curriculum of reproducible sorts and detailed directions for the teacher working with students in each stage of spelling development, from emergent through derivational relations. 

     

    Designed to help teachers working with transitional readers in the within word pattern stage of spelling development (Grades 1 – 4), the sorts in this companion volume help students begin contrasting long and short vowels and sorting words by grammatical and semantic features.  The book begins by reexamining short- and long-vowel sounds with picture sorts, moving on to word sorts to thoroughly examine vowel patterns and assess students’ understanding of short- and long-vowel patterns.  The text moves on to dipthongs and other ambiguous vowel sounds, and finally to complex consonants and consonant clusters, contractions, inflectional endings and homophones.

  • 013514843XWords Their Way: Word Sorts for Within Word Pattern Spellers, 2/E
    Invernizzi, Johnston, Bear & Templeton
    © 2009 | Allyn & Bacon | Paper; 160 pages | Instock
    ISBN-10: 013514843X | ISBN-13: 9780135148433
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    • This phenomenon in word study has always been extremely popular for its developmental approach and hands-on methods for teaching children phonics, vocabulary, and spelling skills.  The revision offers a new laser sharp focus on assessment, organization for word study, research, and teacher-friendly word sorts and games. 

     

    The new edition not only offers a step by step guide through performing the assessments, but a new CD ROM that provides an amazing electronic format for managing student assessment.  It also contains hundreds of alternate word and picture sorts and sorting and game templates that allow teachers to create instructional materials including games from the CD’s bank of word and picture lists.  These materials can be printed or saved to a hard-drive for later use.

     

    The new edition also includes a DVD tutorial that walks users through every step of the Words Their Way approach, from assessment to classroom organization to developmentally-driven, hands on instruction. Words Their Way engages learners and scaffolds the development of all students including English learners.

  • 013223968XWords Their Way: Word Study for Phonics, Vocabulary, and Spelling Instruction, 4/E
    Bear, Invernizzi, Templeton & Johnston
    © 2008 | Allyn & Bacon | Paper; 432 pages | Instock
    ISBN-10: 013223968X | ISBN-13: 9780132239684
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