Word Study

Description

Word Study: Within Word Pattern Sorts for Spanish-Speaking Multilingual Learners is the ideal stage-specific companion to Word Study with Multilingual Learners (formerly titled Words Their Way™ with Multilingual Learners). It provides you with the reproducible sorts and step-by-step directions you’ll need to guide students through each sorting lesson. The week-by-week curriculum complements the use of any phonics, spelling, and reading curricula. Word study is a dynamic instructional approach for teachers and their English-learning students. Your students will feel empowered as they grasp new words in English, build skills to understand the commonalities and differences between Spanish and English, and make connections between oral and written words.

About our authors

Lori Helman is associate professor in literacy education in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Minnesota. Her research and writing have focused extensively on the reading and spelling development of students learning English as a new language. She has also edited a text for teachers, Literacy Development with English Learners.

Donald R. 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.

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.

Shane Templeton is 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

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.

Hallmark features of this title

• Reproducible sorts, notes for the teacher, and step-by-step directions help teachers guide students through each sorting lesson. Introductory materials describe standard weekly routines. Reproducible blackline masters allow for practice in sorting.
• Specific focus is placed on the background knowledge and possible cross-linguistic confusions experienced by Spanish-speaking students. Notes help readers become aware of the most challenging sound and spelling patterns in English for students who speak Spanish.
• The pace and scope of the book is helpful for English learners from non-Spanish speaking backgrounds as well because it provides a focus on important, high-utility vocabulary; frequently uses pictures to teach new words; provides multiple opportunities to practice skills in a systematic manner; and gives the teacher control of how and when oddball words are introduced.

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