Hi Karen,
I used it in my class a few years ago and loved it. The differentiated
instruction part was definitely much harder to manage both in daily
instruction and in centers. I found it was worth the extra effort, however.
Most of the time, the instructional levels of the students pretty much
matched the reading levels, but not always. During instructional times, I
treated the spelling groups as reading groups. For example, Most of the
students (12) were placed on grade level (I teach first grade) while 5-6
were below level, and 6-8 were above level. During the lesson, I taught
the skill to the middle group, and then taught the feature to the lowest
group separately, usually after the middle group went off to practice, and
taught the highest group later, although they gradually understood what
feature they were looking for, but reinforced it again reading group time.
Each group completed the practice activity daily during the same time
of the day, usually morning. The homework was differentiated, and the
center work was differentiated for the three groups, too.
The biggest difference I saw was when the lowest group felt excited
when they got all of their spelling words correct when I gave the test on
Fridays. Each group had a separate test.
I hope this helps.
Diane
Original Message:
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From: Karen Back [email protected]
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2010 16:02:56 +1000
To: [email protected], [email protected]
Subject: [MOSAIC] Words their Way
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
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