Words Their Way: Word Sorts for Within Word Pattern Spellers » (2nd Edition)

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

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.

Donald Bear is director of the E. L. Cord Foundation Center for Learning and Literacy where he and preservice, Master’s and doctoral students teach and assess children who struggle to learn to read and write. Donald is a professor in the Department of Educational Specialties in the College of Education at the University of Nevada, Reno. Donald has been a classroom teacher and he researches and writes about literacy development and instruction. He is an author of numerous articles, book chapters, and books, including Words Their Way, Words Their Way with English Learners, and Vocabulary Their Way.

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

We believe that the hands-on word sorting approach to word study is invaluable to you and your students.  Broaden your word study understanding and instruction with this expanded word sorting tool for week by week implementation with Within Word Pattern spellers (Grades 1-4).  This stage-specific companion volume to Words Their Way: Word Study for Phonics, Vocabulary, and Spelling Instruction provides a complete curriculum of reproducible sorts and detailed directions for the teacher working with students in the witin word pattern stage of spelling. 

NEW! This second edition boasts

• 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 

Overview 1

Sorts for Early Within Word Pattern Spellers

Unit I Picture Sorts for Short- and Long-Vowel Sounds 5

Unit II Word Sorts Contrasting Short- and Long-Vowel Sounds and Patterns (CVC and CVCe) 17

Unit III Common Long-Vowel Patterns (CVCe and CVVC) 33

Sorts for Middle Within Word Pattern Spellers

Unit IV Less Common Long-Vowel Patterns 47

Unit V R-Influenced Vowel Patterns 63

Sorts for Late Within Word Pattern Spellers

Unit VI Diphthongs and Other Ambiguous Vowel Sounds 79

Unit VII Beginning and Ending Complex Consonants and Consonant Clusters 93

Unit VIII High-Frequency Words and Contractions 113

Unit IX Inflectional Endings for Plural and Past Tense 121

Unit X Homophones 129

Appendix 137