Working+with+Words

=What is it?/Why should we teach it?= [|wwwhat is it.doc] =Scope and Sequence= [|scope and sequence3.xls] =Assessment=
 * **Working with Words**
 * Component** |||||| **Alphabetic Principle** || **Spelling** ||
 * || Letter/Sound Recognition || Phonics || Decoding ||  ||
 * Assessment Tool || Super Start (Dawn Reithaug) || Hearing Sounds in Words (Maire Clay) || Nonsense Word Fluency (Dibels) || Developmental test ||
 * Norms || 35/52 Beg. Gr. 1 || See description || See Description || See Description ||

Related Resources
Alphabetical Order Letter Recognition
 * //Alphabetic Principle//**
 * [|Nonsense Word Fluency] (Dibels)
 * Hearing Sounds in Words (//An Observation Survey of Early Literacy Achievement// by Marie Clay)
 * [|Alphabet Antics]
 * [|ABCD Watermelon]
 * [|Bumper Cars]
 * [|Alphabetical Adventure]
 * [|ABC Adventure]
 * [|ABC Order]
 * [|Whack a Mole]
 * [|Alphabet Tunnel Blaster]
 * [|Alphabet Zoo]
 * [|ABC Gulp]
 * [|Cookie Monster's Corner]
 * [|Alphabet Animals]
 * [|Letter Fire]
 * [|Alphabet Cards]
 * [|Kiddonet Alphabet]
 * [|Clifford's Letter Match]
 * [|Alphabet Antics]
 * [|Sky Riding]
 * [|Letter Sound Game]

//Graded Spelling Tests// - given 2-3 times per year //Elementary Spelling Inventory 1// (Words Their Way) Word Families and Rhyming Beginning, Ending, and Middle Sounds Spelling/Phonics Classroom Pictures
 * Spelling**
 * [|Edmonton Spelling Test.doc]
 * [|Schonell Spelling Test.doc]
 * Morrison-McCall Spelling Test
 * Phonics**
 * [|Phonics Endings] - Level 1 word families
 * [|Phonics Endings] - Level 2
 * [|Phonics Endings] - Level 3
 * [|River Rhyming] - choose the rhyming word
 * [|In the Nick of Rhyme]
 * [|Word Games] (rhyme, short vowels, long vowels, double consonants, alphabetical order, plurals)
 * [|Chicken Stacker] - short vowel word sort
 * [|Construct a Word] - uses word family Rimes and students add the onset to make a word
 * [|Is it a Real Word?]
 * [|ABC Match] - beginning sounds
 * [|Leo Loves to Spell] - beginning sounds
 * [|Clifford's Alphabet Fun] - beginning sounds
 * [|Little Animals] - rhyming, ending sounds, and first sounds
 * [|Build a Word (cvc)]
 * [|Spelling City]
 * [|Fuzzy Lion Ears] - find the missing letter
 * [|Wild West Phonics] - choose the missing letter
 * [|Word Building] - working with words/build words
 * [|Letter Matching] - fill in a missing letter
 * [|Put it on the Shelf 4 letter words] - match the picture to the word
 * [|Put it on the Shelf 3 letter words] - match the picture to the word
 * [|Missing Letter Game]
 * [|Clifford's Make a Word] - fill in vowels to make word
 * [|Word Wizard] - uses words from common children's books to manipulate into other words
 * [|Spelling Pattern Online Word Search]
 * Word Sorts**
 * [|Word family sorts]
 * [|beginning/ending sound sorts]
 * [|explanation]
 * [|explanation2]
 * [|Online game]
 * [|management idea]
 * Word Walls**
 * [|Word Wall strategies]
 * [|Word Wall Act checklist.doc]
 * __[|wordwall_002.jpg]__
 * __[|wordwall_001.jpg]__
 * Making Words Online Games**
 * [|Phonemic Processing with Word Building]
 * [|Word Wizard] - uses words from common children's books.
 * [|Making Words] - gives you scrabble tiles to move around the screen. Teacher must direct the student. Would work great on a smartboard!
 * [|WordPlays] - a tool for making your own word lists. You type in a word and it tells you other words (three letters or more) that can be spelled using those letters.
 * [|Magnetic Letter Game] - gives you all of the letters of the alphabet plus a few common word rimes and blends. You can drag them around to create words. Another one that would be great on a smartboard!