Not familiar with WTW. Question : do you need to buy a set of student books, or are you allowed to copy pages from one student book?
Rand Raynor 3rd grade David Douglas District On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 11:54 AM, Tammy Hutchinson <tamhutchin...@gmail.com>wrote: > As one of the literacy specialists for my K-6 school, I coordinate the > Words > Their Way program, making sure teachers have the materials they need and > answering questions for teachers and parents. Teachers usually have about 3 > groups of students in WTW, usually divided between 3 stages. Typically, a > classroom has 1 or 2 children significantly below most others, and they are > often children served by EC. Teachers manage the three groups in a variety > of ways, the most popular is having students 'begin' a new sort on > different > days. The blue group might be working in the Within Word Patterns level and > be introduced to a new sort on Monday, the yellow group gets introduced > their new list on Tuesday, etc. Thus works fine if a schedule is developed > and stuck to AND you train parents that not all spelling happens on Monday > and Friday. One teacher has a 20 minute word block that she is faithful to > (to which she is faithful!). She works with 2 groups each day: the lowest > group and one of the other 2 groups. > Some teachers have paired students for quizzes with a consistent word study > buddy. One week student A has a quiz given by student B, the next week > student a gives Student B a quiz. That still gives these teachers several > 'grades' for spelling: c. 4 weekly qizzes a 9-week grading period, plus > other 'grades' for word hunts, homework, spelling editing in Writer's > Workshop, etc. > Some teachers have asked the EC teacher serving their child to manage > spelling for that child and that has worked for some. We are flexible, as > long as the child is having words appropriate to their spelling level; > lists > are reduced for some students. Our AIG teacher does spelling/vocabulary > with her students and that helps the homeroom teacher limit number of > groups > to some extent also. THe AIG teacher was happy to see the addition of a WTW > Vocabulary Book for Derivational Stage middle school age students. > Occasionally a few teachers stray from WTW-e.g. when reviewing for state > testing I have noticed some 'spelling' lists that look just like a geometry > vocabulary list or a list of literary terms! Some teachers use Spelling > City > as a homeowrk/practice site and you can find many of the WTW sorts already > saved and available for sharing. > Tammy Hutchinson, NBCT > Literacy Specialist, Westwood ES, NC > _______________________________________________ > Mosaic mailing list > Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org > 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. > > _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org 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.
