Topic: Word Study

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You want your students to become flexible in their understanding of words. They need to realize that words can have shades of meaning – they need to understand slightly different meanings in different texts.

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What is phonics, spelling, and word study? Why is it important? And what does it look like in the classroom?

As you implement phonics, spelling, and word study lessons, you will not only learn more about children's development of word-solving strategies but you will also gain invaluable insight into our English linguistic system.

In any coherent system of literacy learning, phonics, spelling, and word study are not the end goal. Instead, these important understandings contribute to children's competence and ease in reading and writing continuous text.

In Phonics, Spelling, and Word Study, children learn how words work in and out of texts.

The true purpose and promise of phonics instruction is to expand and refine children's reading and writing power.

We believe that well-planned and organized explicit teaching of language principles is critical, but that effective lessons must also contain an element of inquiry.

During phonics, spelling, and word study lessons, the teacher provides short, explicit instruction to help children learn about and efficiently use sounds, letters, and words.

Poems provide children with an authentic opportunity to apply their knowledge of letter/sound relationships and word patterns and parts.

When observing students through phonics and word work, you are noticing what the student knows about the phonetic rules of English and how they work.

For English language learners, a reader's notebook is a safe place to practice a new language. It eventually becomes a record of their progress not only in content and literacy knowledge but in acquiring a new language.

FAQ Friday: Unpacking the Phonics, Spelling, and Word Study System

Learning how words work doesn’t have to be a boring, mundane drill.

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