Words Their Way® Classroom is the K-5 supplemental literacy program that helps you teach phonics, spelling, and vocabulary. Developmental stages reflect students’ spelling behavior as they move from one level of word knowledge to the next.
Words Their Way Classroom’s ready-to-go sound, letter, and word sorts, as well as hands-on, multi-sensory print and digital sorting practice, make it perfect for extended practice in structured literacy classrooms. The program connects spelling to word meaning through practice with prefixes, suffixes, and Greek and Latin roots that help students decode and understand the meanings of multisyllabic words – while also reinforcing previously-taught phonology skills through hands-on rhyming and phoneme sorts.
Words Their Way Classroom carefully aligns instruction with the five developmental stages of spelling, – Emergent-Early Letter Name, Letter Name, Within Word Pattern, Syllables and Affixes, and Derivational Relations – with students working at one of five stages based on a brief encoding assessment.
The word study routine is easy to implement and fits within almost any ELA instructional block. Each lesson provides strategies to model the sort, practice it, and apply and assess learning, and includes additional practice and skills reinforcement for previously-taught sound-spelling correspondences and syllabication.
Words Their Way Classroom carefully aligns instruction with the five developmental stages of spelling: Emergent-Early Letter Name, Letter Name, Within Word Pattern, Syllables and Affixes, and Derivational Relations. Word Study Notebooks are available for each developmental stage.
At the heart of the program is the hands-on or interactive sort. The sort invites students to group words or pictures representing specific sounds into categories. Most sorts begin with teacher-directed instruction along with questions to guide student learning and generalizations.
The word study routine is easy to implement and fits within almost any ELA instructional block. Each lesson provides strategies to model the sort, practice it, and apply and assess learning. Differentiated instruction and school-home connections maximize learning opportunities.
What do kids love? Digital interactivity! Take word work online with interactive resources. Demonstrate the sort and allow students to practice online. Combine with the print resources or download and copy PDFs for students.
