Word Study Instruction in the K-2 Classroom

Three important ideas/things from the lesson today are you can use a multiple of assessment tools to complete ongoing assessments on word work for example: journals, use small groups during centers and use a variety of activities to teach word work, and make word walls show word families and words that you use everyday, but the most important thing I learned today is allow students to explore real reading and writing. This means to allow them to explore where they would see the kinds of words they are looking for or to figure out how to spell certain words from using other words that they know.

I picked this article because I do a lot of word work within my Kindergarten classroom now, and I was interested to see if it would this article would give me different strategy ideas to use in my first grade classroom next year.

http://www.readingrockets.org/article/word-study-instruction-k-2-classroom



I chose this image because I think it reflects my teaching philosophy, especially when it comes to reading and writing. I allow my students to explore writing on their own before I check their work and we will have conferences about their spelling or grammar (in their case, whether or not their sentence made sense.) I think it is important for the students to be able to teach themselves or each other because I believe it sticks in their minds better that way. A teacher must teach content as well, but after the main content is taught I give them the opportunity to explore the content on their own.