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Words Their Way

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A core text or supplement for phonics and reading methods courses.

Words Their Way, Third Edition is designed to help teachers address the needs of all readers and spellers, by setting out a clear way to accomodate each student's developmental level, then providing the best methods for teaching to that level. In support of this philosophy, the authors provide more than 250 ready-to-use activities for teaching word study, spelling, vocabulary, and phonics. The text is organized by developmental sequence, and activities appropriate for each level are inclusive within each chapter. Additional word sorts and directions for games are located in the Appendix.

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Words Their Way

by Donald R Bear

Published 31 May 2016

Words Their Way: Vocabulary Their Way with American History shows middle and secondary level American history teachers how to engage in history in order to ignite student debates over topics or issues; read, write and think like historians to help students organize the domain-specific vocabulary words into ways that make sense; use general academic vocabulary and language to help students explore and learn about the past; and tap into the powerful roots of English to become equipped with the tools to help students become independent word learners for the rest of their lives. After setting the stage for teaching vocabulary in history, 12 independent American history units cover the four stages in domain-specific vocabulary instruction and related core activities and strategies, including building background knowledge, thinking like a historian, connecting vocabulary in context, and assessing vocabulary knowledge. The units parallel eras in American history and the related chapters generally found in American history textbooks. They provide flexibility for use as the teacher sees fit, with an eye to students' needs and instructional objectives. Three helpful appendices include a look at the big picture graphic organizers customized for teach of the 12 units, three generative vocabulary assessments, and history teachers' favorite go-to generic graphic organizers and ready-to-use blank templates.

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Intended for the classroom teacher, this newest addition to the Words Their Way® series provides specific guidance, strategies, and tools for helping struggling students, grades 4 and up, catch up with their peers in literacy. The thrust is intervention — specifically, utilizing word study with its hands-on, assessable approach to aid students struggling with the vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension load of middle and secondary classrooms. This book will help you determine student needs, provide you with the strategies to guide each student toward success in content area comprehension, and even outline ideas for fitting these strategies into your crowded schedule.

 

Check out what educators are saying about Words Their Way® with Struggling Adolescent Readers!

 

"Your chapters deal with the realities of a teacher’s day and demonstrate ways that teachers can incorporate skills and strategies across the content areas. I really learned a great deal from this copy. You have so many excellent ideas that will help teachers."

Karen Polk, Northport Schools, New York

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Words Their Way (R) with PreK-K is a hands-on, developmentally-driven approach to word study that illustrates how to integrate and teach phonics, vocabulary, and spelling skills to the youngest readers. Why word study with PreK and kindergarten students? Because the hands-on approach motivates them, keeps them engaged, and helps them built literacy skills. The word study approach as outlined by renowned Words Their Way (R) authors is a developmentally-driven instructional method. It has always been extremely popular for this developmental approach, as well as its concrete methods for teaching children phonics, vocabulary, and spelling skills.

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For use in the Reading Methods (Supplementary) or Phonological Awareness and Phonics courses.

Words Their Way (R) is a hands-on, developmentally-driven approach to word study that illustrates how to integrate and teach children phonics, vocabulary, and spelling skills.

Building on its best-selling approach, this edition of Words Their Way continues the phenomenon that has helped thousands of children improve their literacy skills. The keys to this successful, research-based approach are to know your students' literacy progress, organize for instruction, and implement word study. This Sixth Edition lists the Common Core State Standards for each activity and features enhanced discussions, activities, and content.

To offer teachers even more tools that will enhance their word study instruction, all new classroom videos and interactive PDFs are available on the PDToolkit site. With its newly designed marginal icons that link readers to resources on the accompanying web site, Words Their Way, provides a complete word study package that will motivate and engage your students, and help them to succeed in literacy learning.

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Teachers gain electronic access to the resource materials for Words Their Way (TM).

We are pleased to introduce the PDToolkit, an online subscription-based resource that provides the tools that educators need to effectively plan and implement instruction. The PDToolkit for Words Their Way (TM), together with the text, provides the tools you need to effectively carry out word study instruction that will motivate and engage your students and help them succeed in literacy learning.

Currently the following resources are available:

All-new video has been shot for the Fifth Edition. This classroom footage brings you into the classrooms of teachers using word study at different stages of development.Assessment tools provide downloadable inventories and feature guides as well as interactive classroom composites that help teachers monitor their students' development throughout the year.Prepared word sorts and games for each stage will help you get started with word study in your classroom.A Create Your Own feature allows you to modify and create sorts by selecting pictures and words in word sort templates.

In the future, we will continue to add other resources.

When you activate the Standalone Access Card, you receive 12 months of access to the PDToolkit for Words Their Way (TM).

To learn more, please visit http://pdtoolkit.pearson.com.

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The author team that developed the research-rooted word study phenomenon Words Their Way turn their attention to the same kind of hands on, research based approach to developing vocabulary with students in intermediate, middle, and secondary grades. The text offers research-tested ideas for helping students use word patterns to puzzle out meaning to content area vocabulary. It also provides much needed assessment information to help teachers gauge where to begin instruction, as well as hands on opportunities for teachers to keep student attention and interest as they build vocabulary.

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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. NOTE: This edition is 3 hole punched.

 

NEW! All second editions boast



Literature Connections making links between features being studies and valuable children’s literature
Targeted Learners sections that clarify which students will benefit most from the instruction
Spell Checks and other Assessments available more frequently throughout
High Frequency Words receive special attention 

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.

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The PDToolkit for Words Their Way is now live! Once you activate your access code, the subscription is valid for six months.



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The developmentally driven Words Their Way (TM) 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 interactive classroom assessment application, prepared and create-your-own word sorts, games, and more specific to each chapter. It gives you all the tools you need to carry out word study instruction that will motivate and engage your students, and help them to succeed in literacy learning. Ordered in a developmental format, Words Their Way (TM) complements the use of any existing phonics, spelling, and vocabulary curricula.



We invite you to see what's new in Words Their Way (TM) ...



Ground-breaking online PDToolkit for Words Their Way (TM) gives educators access to:



all new how-to classroom videos
interactive classroom assessment tool featuring new user-friendly navigation
prepared and create-your-own word sorts
games, templates, and more!

Complimentary 6-month access packaged with each new Fifth Edition
To learn more, please visit: http://pdtoolkit.pearson.com


Innovative redesign of the book introduces technology integration aligning text to online videos, sorts, and assessments specific to each chapter.
Unprecedented inclusion of progress monitoring throughout the book.
Brand-new continuum of support model offers tips for better planning and carrying out word study lessons in the classroom.
Expanded discussion on oral vocabulary, secondary instruction, writing, and early/middle/late phases in the derivational relations stage.
Updated collection of classroom activities helps build the skills students need to move on to the next developmental stage.
New "Resources for Implementing Word Study in Your Classroom" provides information about resources teachers can use in their instruction.
Enhanced coverage of English learners provides tips and strategies for modifying instruction.
Classroom-ready appendices contain all the assessment instruments described in Chapter 2 as well as word sorts, sound boards, and game templates to get instruction underway. (Note: Includes reproducibles and perforated pages.)

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