"Using a conversational tone to present a wealth of content on both print-based and digital literacy, this book helps readers connect theory to practice through real classroom vignettes and sample lessons; authentic student work samples; and ..."
"A hands-on, developmentally-driven approach to word study that illustrates how to integrate and teach phonics, vocabulary, and spelling skills to all students. Words Their Way is a developmental approach to phonics, vocabulary, and spelling instruction. Guided by an informed interpretation of spelling errors and other literacy behaviors, Words Their Way offers a systematic, teacher-directed, child-centered plan for the study of wo ..."
"The developmentally driven Words Their Way ® instructional approach is a phenomenon in word study, providing a practical way to study words with students. The keys to this successful, research-based approach are to know your students’ literacy progress, organize for instruction, and implement word study. The Fifth Edition features an innovative redesign and introduces technology integration aligning text to all new classroom video, an ..."
"The 7th Edition features a new chapter (9) on organizing word study in the classroom, as well as new activities, progress monitoring materials, and sample lesson plans."
"With more than 15 years of extensive observations and experiences in real classrooms, the authors bring keen insight to this activity-based book. They advocate basing student learning on the appropriate developmental level. This philosophy is supported with more than 250 ready-to-use word study, spelling, vocabulary, and phonics activities presented in developmental sequence, from the Emergent through the Derivational Relation stage. ..."
"This volume presents 59 prepared, reproducible sorts, blackline masters, and other activities and assessments covering the full curriculum of word study for students in the within word pattern stage of spelling development."
"This volume unites spelling and word recognition -- two areas that have largely remained theoretically and empirically distinct. Despite considerable advances in the investigation of processes underlying word perception and the acknowledgement of the seminal importance of lexical access in the reading and writing processes, to date the development and functioning of orthographic knowledge across both encoding and decoding contexts has r ..."
"The Sentence; 3. Writing a Class Story; 4. Nouns and Pronouns; 5. Writing a Personal Narrative; 6. Verbs; 7. Writing a Story; 8. Adjectives; 9. Writing a Description; 10. More Capitalization and Punctuation; 11. Writing Instructions; 12."
""Teaching Reading and Writing: The Developmental Approach" is a comprehensive yet accessible guide to the tools and knowledge pre-service and experienced teachers need to teach literacy in a developmentally-responsive and integrated way while meeting the diverse needs of students in today s classrooms. Using a conversational tone to present a wealth of critical content, the book helps readers connect theory to practice through vignettes ..."
"The ideal stage-specific companion to Words Their Way: Word Study for Phonics, Vocabulary, and Spelling Instruction In keeping with the authors’ belief that the hands-on, word sorting approach to word study is invaluable to teachers and students alike, this volume presents prepared sorts and activities covering the full curriculum of word study for students who are in the emergent stage of spelling development. Complete with 26 sorts ..."
"For courses in Reading Methods (Supplementary) / Phonological Awareness and Phonics The ideal stage-specific companion to Words Their Way: Word Study for Phonics, Vocabulary, and Spelling Instruction. In keeping with the authors’ belief that the hands-on, word sorting approach to word study is invaluable to teachers and students alike, this volume presents prepared sorts and activities covering the full curriculum of word study for a ..."