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Assessment-driven Instruction
1. What I have learned about my students
2. How I learned this
3. How will this inform my teaching
4. What am I going to do next
A Way With Words
1. Divide into 3 groups.2. Group 1 – read pages i, ii, iii, iv, v, up to the
beginning of ‘3’ (half way on page v)Group 2 – read pages i, v (from ‘3 Targeted Teaching of Word-Learning Strategies’), vi, vii to the beginning of ‘4’.Group 3 – read pages i, vii (From ‘4 Using Word Parts to arrive …..’), viii, ix and x
3. Report back to large group4. Discuss: What implications does this have for
teaching Spelling and Vocabulary in my class?
Teaching Word Work
1. “Bulk” Reading
2. Targeted Teaching of Individual Words
3. Targeted Teaching of Word-Learning Strategies
4. Developing a Spelling Conscience
Teaching Word Work
1) Bulk Reading
“Children learn to read by reading”Frank Smith
Independent Reading is the most powerful tool we have to improve student performance across the board.
Teaching Word Work
2) Targeted Teaching of Individual
Words• Selection of Vocabulary To Teach
– Find out what the students know
– Find out what the students don’t know
• Different types of words (and the challenges they present to the students) require different teaching approaches.
Teaching Word Work
Targeted Teaching of Individual
Words
• Word Sorts is a remarkably successful strategy– Closed Sorts
– Open Sorts
Teaching Word Work
3) Targeted Teaching of Word-Learning Strategies
– Use Context to infer word meanings• Think Aloud
• Displaying prompts
– Use Word Parts to arrive at word meanings• Prefixes, Suffixes, Root Words
• Latin and Greek Roots
– Use the Dictionary to learn to verify word meanings
Teaching Word Work
4) Developing a Spelling Conscience– Proofreading– Word Play
• Jack and the Twoderful Beans
Jack and the Twoderful Beans
Twice upon a time there lived a boynamed Jack, in the twoderful world ofCalifivenia. Two day Jack, a doubleminded lad, decided three go fifththree seek his fivetune.After making sure that Jack nine a sandwichand drank some 8-Up, his mother elevenderlysaid, “Threedeloo, threedeloo. Try three beback by next Threesday.”Jack went fifth and soon met a man wearing a four-piece suitand a threepee. Fifthrightly, Jack said to the man, “I’m aCalifivenian. Are you two three?”“Cerelevenly”, replied the man, offiving him a high six, “Anyonefor elevenniss?”
Teaching Word Work
4) Developing a Spelling Conscience– Proofreading– Word Play
• Jack and the Twoderful Beans
• Clichés and Puns
A Sign of the TimesLook at these examples of puns andclichés used in advertising…….
• On a diaper service van: Rock a Dry Baby
• On a peanut stand:If our peanuts were any fresher, they’d be insulting
• In a Butcher Shop:Never a bum steer
Try completing these signs for ………..• A Planetarium:
Cast of Thousands – Every one _ ____• A Garden Shop:
Lighten up your garden, plant _____
Try some of your own
Teaching Word Work
4) Developing a Spelling Conscience– Proofreading– Word Play
• Jack and the Twoderful Beans
• Clichés and Puns
• Crazy Collectives
• Word Search
• What’s the Word?
Teaching Word Work
Word Walls• Teaching Vocabulary through Immersion• Word Walls aren’t only for Literacy – Math or
Science Word Walls work too!• Grouping important
– Alphabetical– Thematic