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Contents Overview 5 Sorts for Middle Syllables and Affixes Sorts for Early Syllables and Affixes UNIT III Syllable Juncture 51 Notes for the Teacher 51 UNIT I Inflected Endings (-ing, -ed, -s, -es) 15 Unit Spell Check 3 Assessment for Syllable Notes for the Teacher 15 Juncture Patterns 53 Unit Spell Check 1A Pretest for Inflected Sort 13 Syllable Juncture in VCV and VCCV Endings 16 Patterns 55 Unit Spell Check 1B Posttest for Inflected Sort 14 More Syllable Juncture in VCV and Endings 16 VCCV Patterns 58 Sort 1 Review of Vowel Patterns in One-Syllable Sort 15 Syllable Juncture in VCV and VVCV Words 18 Patterns 60 Sort 2 Adding -ING to Words with CVC and Sort 16 Syllable Juncture in VCCCV and VV CVCC Patterns 20 Patterns 63 Sort 3 Adding -ING to Words with CVCe and Sort 17 Open and Closed Syllables and Inflected CVVC Patterns 22 Endings 65 Sort 4 Review of Double, E-Drop and Nothing 24 Sort 5 Adding -ED to Words 27 UNIT IV Long-Vowel Patterns in Accented Sort 5A Double, E-Drop and Nothing 29 Syllables 69 Sort 6 Irregular Verbs 30 Notes for the Teacher 69 Sort 7 Plural Endings: Adding -ES 33 Unit Spell Check 4 Assessment for Long-Vowel Sort 7A Plural Endings for Words Ending Patterns in Accented Syllables 70 in -O 35 Sort 18 Long A Patterns in Accented Sort 8 Unusual Plurals 37 Syllables 71 Sort 8A More Unusual Plurals 39 Sort 19 Long I Patterns in Accented Syllables 74 Sort 9 Y + Inflected Endings 41 Sort 20 Long O Patterns in Accented Syllables 77 Sort 21 Long U Patterns in Accented Syllables 79 UNIT II Compound Words 43 Sort 21A Long /OO/ Sounds in Accented Syllables 81 Notes for the Teacher 43 Sort 22 Long E Patterns in Accented Syllables 83 Sort 10 Compound Words 44 Sort 23 Review of Long-Vowel Patterns in Sort 11 More Compound Words 46 Accented Syllables 85 Sort 12 Abstract Compound Words 48 3 4 CONTENTS UNIT V Other Vowel Patterns in Accented UNIT VII Exploring Consonants 131 Syllables 89 Notes for the Teacher 131 Notes for the Teacher 89 Unit Spell Check 7 Assessment for Unit Spell Check 5 Assessment for R-Influenced Consonants 132 and Ambiguous Vowels in Accented Sort 41 Initial Hard and Soft G and C 133 Syllables 90 Sort 42 S and Soft C and G in the Final Sort 24 OY/OI and OU/OW in Accented Syllable 136 Syllables 91 Sort 43 More Words with G 138 Sort 25 AU, AW and AL in Accented Syllables 94 Sort 44 The Sound of K Spelled CK, IC Sort 26 R-Influenced A in Accented Syllables 96 and X 140 Sort 27 R-Influenced O in Accented Syllables 98 Sort 45 Spellings with QU 142 Sort 28 Words with the W or /W/ Sound Before Sort 46 Words with Silent Consonants 144 the Vowel 100 Sort 47 Words with GH and PH 146 Sort 29 ER, IR and UR in Accented Syllables 102 Sort 30 URE, EAR and ERE in Accented Sorts for Late Syllables and Affixes Syllables 104 UNIT VIII Affixes 149 UNIT VI Unaccented Syllables 107 Notes for the Teacher 149 Notes for the Teacher 107 Unit Spell Check 8 Assessment for Prefixes 150 Unit Spell Check 6 Assessment for Unaccented Sort 48 Prefixes (RE-, UN-) 153 Syllables 108 Sort 49 Prefixes (DIS-, MIS-, PRE-) 155 Sort 31 Unaccented Final Syllable (-LE) 109 Sort 50 Prefixes (NON-, IN-, FORE-) 157 Sort 32 Unaccented Final Syllable (-LE, -EL, -IL, -AL) 111 Sort 51 Prefixes (UNI-, BI-, TRI- and Other Numbers) 159 Sort 33 Unaccented Final Syllable (-ER, -OR, -OUR, -AR) 113 Sort 52 Suffixes (-Y, -LY) 161 Sort 34 Agents and Comparatives 115 Sort 53 Comparatives (-ER, -EST) 164 Sort 35 Unaccented Final Syllables (/CHUR/ and Sort 54 Suffixes (-NESS, -FUL and -LESS) 166 /ZHUR/) 117 Sort 36 Unaccented Final Syllables (-EN, -ON, UNIT IX Miscellaneous Sorts 169 -AIN, -IN, -AN) 120 Notes for the Teacher 169 Sort 37 Unaccented Final Syllables (-ET, -IT, -ATE) 122 Sort 55 Advanced Compound Words 170 Sort 38 Final -Y, -EY and -IE 124 Sort 56 Homophones 172 Sort 39 Y + Inflected Endings 126 Sort 57 Homographs 174 Sort 40 Unaccented Initial Syllables (A-, DE-, Sort 58 I Before E Except After C 178 BE-) 128 Appendix 181 OVERVIEW W ord Sorts for Syllables and Affixes Spellers is through the scaffolding process to arrive at conclu- a companion volume to the core text sions that will help them as readers and spellers. Words Their Way: Word Study for Phonics, However, you may want to use pretests at times to Vocabulary and Spelling Instruction. The core text determine if students are appropriately placed in supplies the theory and research that underlie the the word study sequence. Students are expected to curriculum laid out in these companions, and it is spell between 50% and 75% of the words correctly important that teachers have this text available for on the pretest if the words and features are at their reference.
This book provides prepared reproduc- instructional level. ible sorts and step-by-step directions for guiding students through sorting lessons. There are organ- isation tips as well as follow-up activities to extend the lesson through weekly routines. SCOPE AND SEQUENCE The collection of sorts in this book is designed for students in the syllables and affixes stage of OF THIS BOOK development—students who are usually in the The third edition of Word Sorts for Syllables and upper elementary grades and middle school (grades Affixes Spellers includes 64 sorts and is divided into 3 through 8).
Students who spell most one-syllable nine units with 1,400 words. First, students will words correctly have the foundational knowledge learn how to add inflected endings (-ed, -ing, -s) to needed to spell the base words to which affixes words using the ‘double, drop or nothing’ rule. (both suffixes and prefixes) will be added. They will Two-syllable words will be introduced through also be ready to look for familiar vowel patterns in compound words, and then students will study the two- and three-syllable words.
It is important that pattern of vowels and consonants at the place where students not begin the sorts in this collection until syllables meet. We call these syllable juncture pat- they have a firm foundation in vowel patterns terns. Next, the long-vowel patterns that students within one-syllable words. To figure out exactly studied in the within word pattern stage will be where individual students should start, you need to reviewed in the stressed or accented syllable of two- administer one of the spelling inventories described syllable words.
In a similar fashion, r-influenced in Chapter 2 of Words Their Way. and ambiguous vowels (e., oy, ou, au and aw) will Word study as we describe it is analytic. Stu- also be reexamined in two-syllable words. After dents examine words they already know how to studying stressed syllables, students will look at the read, and sometimes even spell, as a way to develop unstressed syllables that occur most commonly at generalisations about how the spelling system the end of two-syllable words (e., -el or -le).
This in turn enables them to decode and You may be familiar with and prefer the term analyse unfamiliar words they encounter in reading syllable types, which is another way of describing how and to master the spelling of similar words. For this individual syllables are spelled. There are six syllable reason, we do not recommend that you give a pre- types: (1) closed—the syllable is ‘closed’ with a conso- test and then eliminate all the correctly spelled nant, usually though not always indicating a short- words from the weekly routines and the final assess- vowel sound as in pan or panic; (2) open—the syllable ment. Known words provide important reference is ‘open’ because it ends with a long-vowel sound as points for the student who is using but confusing the in me or o-pen; (3) vowel-consonant-e as in make or bite; spelling feature of interest.
In this way, we help (4) vowel team as in team or cloud; (5) r-controlled as in students work from the known to the unknown mark or north; (6) final stable syllable—this includes 5 6 OVERVIEW the frequent ‘consonant-le’ pattern (table, cycle, buckle) The section describes extension activities, and it as well as other common, final, unaccented syllables includes a unit spell check that can be used as pre- or (nation, creature, label). All but the final syllable type are posttest. Each lesson offers suggestions to guide the already familiar to students who have completed the lesson with questions that engage students in critical sorts in the within word pattern stage. Talking about thinking and reflection.
Sorts can be introduced in a syllable types may be more helpful in Unit V than try- number of ways, and the way you choose depends ing to apply knowledge of syllable juncture patterns. on your own teaching style as well as the experience Later sorts cover some of the unusual consonant of your students.