Hi Karen- Our district adopted Words Their Way this past school year. It took a while to get the program up and running. We were lucky to have a teacher in our building who had used it before and could guide us as we began using it. I had three groups in my fifth grade room. One in mid level D, one at the beginning of E and one in the middle of E. These groups were put together based on the assessment data from the WTW test. As a building we decided it best not to have students working more than one level down or up from the one for their grade level. Here is my schedule for the week for each group: Monday - Introduce words in groups (students have them cut and ready to sort) Homework - speed sort at home Tuesday - Speed sort on Promethean board in groups - review rules and set up columns for sort. Homework - No peek sort Wednesday - Workbook page Thursday - Game day in room at Promethean Board Homework Cover-Copy-Write in cursive Friday - Assessment
I used literacy time for the groups - about 10 - 15 minutes on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday for activities. We have a 90 minute literacy block, so while I worked with one group other students were working on other literacy activites including self-selected, partner reading and mini-lesson work. ~Darlene On Friday, June 11, 2010, at 11:00AM, <[email protected]> wrote: >Send Mosaic mailing list submissions to > [email protected] > >To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/listinfo/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org > >or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [email protected] > >You can reach the person managing the list at > [email protected] > >When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific >than "Re: Contents of Mosaic digest..." > > >Today's Topics: > > 1. Words their Way (Karen Back) > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >Message: 1 >Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2010 16:02:56 +1000 >From: "Karen Back" <[email protected]> >To: "'Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group'" > <[email protected]> >Cc: [email protected] >Subject: [MOSAIC] Words their Way >Message-ID: <00b801cb092b$bedeb060$3c9c11...@[email protected]> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > >Hi there > > > >Apologies for cross posting.... > > > >I am interested in hearing from teachers who are using 'Words Their Way' as >part of their spelling and vocab. program. I particularly would like to >know more about how it is managed in the room when you have children at >various levels. > >The program is becoming very popular here (Queensland, Australia) and >schools are finding it is improving data. I know from previous threads on >these lists there are quite a few of you that use it, so I thought I would >go straight to the experts! > > > >Any information you can provide would be a great assistance. > > > >Kind regards, > > > >Karen Back > > > >------------------------------ > >_______________________________________________ >Mosaic mailing list >[email protected] >To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to >http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. > >Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive. > >End of Mosaic Digest, Vol 46, Issue 10 >************************************** > > _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive.
