Description

Children have mastered single syllable words and are proficient in two or three syllable words.
The concepts/features learned throughout this stage are (in increasing order, early to late): blends, common long vowels, other vowels, and inflected endings.

Students in this stage explore the pattern layer of English spelling which focuses on matching phonemes with letter patterns.

Chapter Overview

• Literacy Development of the Student

  • Reading in the Within Word Pattern Stage

    • Single Syllable Words: Mastered

    • Two and Three Syllable Words: Proficient

    • Recognize Patterns and Chunks

      • Chest (Ch-est)

    • Enables Storing and Vocabulary Growth

      • Up to 100 words per minute, Fluency Built

      • Go from dysfluent, word by word, to transitional fluent

  • Writing in the Within Word Pattern Stage

    • Automaticity of spelling words

      • Ideas

      • Expression

      • Complexity

  • Vocabulary Learning

    • Read Alouds

    • Word Sorts and Vocabulary

      • Homophones

      • Homonyms

    • Concept Sorts

    • Dictionaries

    • Simple Prefixes and Suffixes

      • Syllables and Affixes

• Orthographic Development

  • The Pattern Principle

    • Pattern Layers

      • Isolation of phonemes to determine the sounds they need to represent.

      • HOW words are spelled may depend on their histories and origins

      • HOW sounds are spelled may depend on the positioning within a word

      • HOW sounds are spelled may depend on sounds next to them

      • HOW words are spelled may depend on the meaning of the word

  • The Complexities of English Vowels

    • More vowel sounds than there are letters to represent

      • Vowel Teams

      • Vowel Markers (Silent e, y, vowel teams) (Came, Play, Saw)

    • Vowel sounds spelt multiple ways

      • Table 6.2

    • R-Controlled, Diphthongs, Ambiguous Vowels

    • Some sounds do not translate

  • The Influence of Consonants on Vowels

    • The R-Influenced Vowels

      • Fir, Fur

      • Herd, Bird, Curd

 

• Pain VS. Pair

 

• Triple Blends, Silent Initial Consonants and Other Complex Consonants

  • Complex Consonant Patterns

    • Tack/Take

    • Lick/Like

    • Rack/Rake

    • Smock/Smoke

    • Notch/Roach

• Homophone, Homographs, and Other Features

  • “The weigh Peat cot the bare was knot fare.”

  • “The way Pete caught the bear was not fair.”

• “We rowed around the lake.”

• “We rode around the lake.”

• Word Study Instruction

The Word Study Lesson Plan in the Within Word Pattern Stage

• Picture Sorts to Contrast Long and Short Vowels

• Teacher Directed Two Step Sort for Long Vowels

• Open Sorts

• Sequence and Pacing Of Word Study

  • Early: Students know blends and digraphs and spell most short vowels correctly.

    • Silent e: most common pattern found first

    • Trouble with CVCe words

  • Middle: Students are spelling the vowels with the CVCe

  • Late Placement

  • Pacing

• The Study of High Frequency Words

• How to Assess and Monitor

  • Weekly Spelling Tests

  • Limit Assessments and Goal Setting

• English Language Learners

  • Teaching Vowels to English Learners

  • Strategies for Teaching and Assessing English

  • The Influence of Dialects

• Word Study: Routines and Management:

  • Word Study Notebooks in the Within Word Pattern Stage

  • Word Hunts

  • Homework

  • Resources and Games

• Review of Activities:

  • Word-O or Word Operations

  • Train Station Game

  • Turkey Feathers

  • The  Racetrack Game

  • The Spelling Game

  • I’m Out

  • Vowel Spin

  • Sheep in a Jeep Game

  • Jeopardy Game

  • Vowel Poker Card Game

  • Declare Your Category

  • Word Study Pursuit

  • Word Study Uno

  • Homophone Win, Lose, or Draw

  • Homophone Rummy

  • Hink Pinks

Benefits of Word Study

Helps guide student’s mastery of:

• Vowels and consonant patterns in the within word pattern stage

• Phonics

• Spelling patterns

• Word parts

• Meaning of words

Word study can offer individualized practice for students

• Gives ELL and ESE students more exposure to the words

• More advanced words can be used for gifted students

• Gives students opportunities to practice words in multiple contexts

• Helps students quickly recognize words and generalize spelling trends (Ex. Silent “e” makes a long vowel sound)

• Allows teachers to monitor progress

Resources

Words Their Way - Within Word Pattern Sorts - pg. 356-360

The words provided for the word sorts can be used in a template such as the one provided on pg. 401.

 

There are 41 different sorts for Within Word Pattern stage:

• vowel sound

• r-influenced vowels
  ambiguous vowels

• complex consonants

• Concepts

 

Long Vowels Word Study - ITunes App Store $2.99

• 8 Learning Levels include

• Silent e long vowel pattern

• Vowel digraphs

• R-influenced vowel patterns

• Other/Ambiguous vowel patterns

• Spelling Activities Included in Every Level:

• SORT IT- Sorting words based on their common spelling patterns.

• FIND IT- finding words that do not fit based on the phonics sound or visual pattern.

• SPELL IT- Manipulating letter tiles to spell long vowel words.

• WRITE IT- Spelling long vowel words by writing the word that is spoken.

• Bonus Sections

• A parent section that explains the theory behind the spelling activities included in the app (plus other features)

• A “Word Fun” section, where kids can play spelling games after earning stars from their spelling activities

Star fall

• http://www.starfall.com/n/sorting/two-vowels/load.htm?f

• http://www.starfall.com/n/matching/long-vowels/load.ht

• http://www.starfall.com/n/two-vowels/tv/load.htm?f