Words Their Way: Word Sorts for Syllables and Affixes Spellers

I teach a decoding class for remedial sixth grade students. This book helps me make reading fun, and it saves me time in creating word sort activities.

I love the Word Their Way book and spelling program but doing lesson plans as a warm up for 5 reading groups 3 or 4 times a week was overwhelming. This series of books allows me to quickly prepare my warm up activites so every group gets differentiated instruction. What a lifesaver!!

Syllables and Affixes is the most difficult of the spelling stages to teach. Words Their Way: Syllables and Affixes clearly describes how to teach the features of this phase.

Ever been told to find a new way to teach spelling, and been given absolutely no instruction about it at all? Yeah, I teach fourth grade GT language arts. That scenario fell to me the day before school started this year. After searching around a good bit, I wanted to get into more intermediate rules and practical applications that would help writers on the state mandated writing test. Words Their Way was a good start, but I had no time to prep a lot of materials or read a lot of research that suggested possibilities. I knew how kids spelled constructively, but how to make the leap? Its not intuitive when you are the middle of high stakes teaching. Spending $[...] on this book brought me peace of mind and a lesson plan come Monday morning.

I would recommend this resource to any teacher using Words Their Way...it cuts down planning time in half, plus it's user friendly!