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The Big Work for Readers at Various Phases of Development

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These student assessments can be used to monitor student progress with phonological and phonemic awareness skills, and the results can be used to plan for instruction. The Heggerty Phonemic Awareness assessments are not required to teach the curriculum.
Please note: English assessments were updated August 2021 to align to the digital assessments now available on myHeggerty. For the previous version of the English assessments, please scroll to the bottom of the page and open the archive folder.
Pre-Kindergarten Assessments:

Progress Monitoring Assessments:
Progress monitoring assessments for individual phonemic awareness skills can be used to gather data about a students' progress. These assessments can be administered throughout the school year to students in Kindergarten, 1st or 2nd grade. Specific lessons from the Kindergarten and Primary curriculum are listed on each assessment, to assist teachers with planning for instruction.

↓ Initial Phoneme Isolation
↓ Final Phoneme Isolation
↓ Medial Phoneme Isolation
↓ Blending Syllables
↓ Blending Body Coda and Onset Rime
↓ Blending Phonemes
↓ Segmenting into Syllables
↓ Segmenting Onset-Rime
↓ Segmenting into Phonemes
↓ Adding Syllables
↓ Adding Initial or Final Phonemes
↓ Substituting Initial, Final, and Medial Phonemes
↓ Deleting Syllables
↓ Deleting Initial or Final Phonemes
↓ Deleting Initial Phonemes - Extra

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Phonemic Awareness Assessments & Lesson Plans | Heggerty

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Download free phonemic awareness assessments and lesson plans in English and Spanish for pre-k, kindergarten, and primary curriculums.

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Possible Lesson Sequence (adapt to YOUR kids!)

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If you're not sure how phonics fits within your daily instruction, or crave a more effective process for teaching phonics, Heidi Anne Mesmer is here to help. In Letter Lessons and First Words, Heidi Anne provides a research-based vision of what lively, engaging phonics instruction can look like, along with practical, classroom-tested tools to make it happen in your classroom.

Heidi Anne provides a one-stop shop for phonics instruction, including a clear scope and sequence of what to teach, a quick assessment to differentiate instruction, a simple lesson framework, and three activity-filled units matching key developmental milestones.

More than twenty classroom videos bring the content to life, showing children working with letters, words, and books at various stages of learning. Additional resources include:

A "know the code" chapter explaining English spelling (and online glossary)

Answers to common questions

Guidance about choosing books for readers at different stages

new info about how children cognitively store words and why inductive tension is important.

Isn't it time to re-imagine how you teach phonics? Letter Lessons and First Words will show you the way toward joyful instruction for today's classrooms.

Read Heidi Anne's Blog post Developmentally Responsive Phonics Instruction: A Research-Based Approach

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Research-based strategies for lively, engaging phonics instruction with young children. - Heinemann

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No More Teaching a Letter a Week (Not This but That)

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No More Teaching a Letter a Week (Not This but That) [McKay, Rebecca, Teale, William H., Keene, Ellin Oliver, Duke, Nell K] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. No More Teaching a Letter a Week (Not This but That)

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Continuum for Punctuation

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Lessons on Rule Making and Rule Breaking in Elementary Writing

Good writers know the rules, but skilled punctuators don't simply go by the conventions. They use punctuation to make meaning. Practical Punctuation shows you how to help students discover the relationship between punctuation and meaning-and how they can use it to improve their writing.

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Dan has made it his business to delve into punctuation, and we are all the wiser for the impressive and exciting writing about the subject that he has done in this book.

Author of How's It Going? and Assessing Writers

In all the books I've read about written language, Dan's is the first to explore the mind's ear.... He has actually changed the way I read as well as write. How lucky we are to (finally) have an intellectually engaging exploration of what we have too long considered drudgery.... When you consider Dan's approach, you'll wonder how you ever taught another way.

Coauthor of Mosaic of Thought, Second Edition, and author of To Understand

Get ready to be taken by the hand by a master teacher who will show you how to teach students the rules of punctuation in clearly defined lessons. From the first page I was eager to take this book to my own teaching.

Author of The Power of Grammar

Punctuation is important. Period. Good writers know the rules, but skilled punctuators don't simply go by the conventions. They use punctuation to make meaning. Practical Punctuation shows you how to help students discover the relationship between punctuation and meaning-and how they can use it to improve their writing.

Practical Punctuation 's strategies help writers connect periods, commas, and dashes to mood, emphasis, and rhythm. Dan Feigelson's ready-to-use lessons provide opportunities to:

show students the purposes of punctuation before teaching them the rules

give writers chances to experiment with punctuating

model the thinking that goes into punctuating

teach conventions explicitly, but not absolutely

hold students accountable for punctuation in formal writing.

Feigelson's lessons are highly structured. They demonstrate how to teach punctuation as a craft tool with writers of varying sophistication or age:

beginners: ending punctuation

intermediate-stage writers: the comma

advanced writers: internal punctuation and cadence.

Feigelson includes a handy teacher's reference guide to punctuation as well as grade-by-grade guidelines that make assessing punctuation simpler. And his interviews with world-renowned authors will help you and your writers better understand the power punctuation has to impart meaning.

Read Practical Punctuation and help students make choices with punctuation-instead of letting punctuation rules make choices for them.

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Patterns of Power Grammar Inquiry Sample

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Create a new document and edit with others at the same time -- from your computer, phone or tablet. Get stuff done with or without an internet connection. Use Docs to edit Word files. Free from Google.

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"When we give every student worksheets to learn phonics and spelling, we miss opportunities to get our students excited about words and fail to give them the opportunity to meet the high standards represented by the Common Core Standards. Our students need instruction that makes them think and helps them apply their word knowledge to real reading and writing situations."-Jennifer Palmer and Marcia Invernizzi

We want students to be curious about how words work and develop strategies that work whether they are decoding words or spelling them. And our jobs would be easier if students couldn't wait
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"When we give every student worksheets to learn phonics and spelling, we miss opportunities to get our students excited about words and fail to give them the opportunity to meet the high standards represented by the Common Core Standards. Our students need instruction that makes them think and helps them apply their word knowledge to real reading and writing situations."-Jennifer Palmer and Marcia Invernizzi

We want students to be curious about how words work and develop strategies that work whether they are decoding words or spelling them. And our jobs would be easier if students couldn't wait for word study.

Yet so many classrooms are stuck in the cycle of unengaging, one-size fits all phonics and spelling worksheets.

Reading specialist Jennifer Palmer and literacy researcher Marcia Invernizzi offer better, more effective, more engaging practices. Their suggestions lead kids to not only make progress during word study but also to transfer what they learn about words to their reading and writing. No More Phonics and Spelling Worksheets show us:

why skill-and-drill methods and worksheets cause children to struggle or disengage

the kinds of teaching that research shows actually works

instructional ideas for word study can put to use right away.

"We can cast off one-size-fits-all factory instruction and try a more useful practice," write Jennifer and Marcia, "meeting each child where s/he is." Pick up No More Phonics and Spelling Worksheets, discover practices that better support literacy growth, and help everyone make progress.

(click any section below to continue reading)

Contents

SECTION 1 NOT THIS-Worksheets/Workbooks: The Trap of Repetition Without Transfer
The Factory Model of Teaching Ignores Transfer
Stopping the Assembly Line: Taking the Time to Think
How Are Students Showing Their Learning: Engagement or Entertainment?
One Size Doesn't Fit All
What Does Each Child Know and How Can I Teach from There?
There Is a Better Way

SECTION 2 WHY NOT? WHAT WORKS?-Let Students Show Us What to Teach Them
The Logic in Spelling Errors
Student Diversity in Word Knowledge
How to Assess Word Knowledge
Meeting Diverse Needs Through Differentiated Small-Group Instruction
Understanding Development
Debunking the Myths About English Spelling
Critical Principles for Word Study
Spelling and Vocabulary: What's the Link?

SECTION 3 BUT THAT-Helping Kids Figure It Out Themselves
What Are Students Ready to Learn?
What Does Word Study Look Like?
Helping Kids Tackle More Complex Texts
Helping Students Notice and Name Letter, Sound, and Meaning Patterns
Allowing Ourselves to Be Learners

Related PD Services

Email Email Email planningservices@heinemann.com if you would like to contact planningservices@heinemann.com if you would like to contact planningservices@heinemann.com if you would like to contact PD Resources From Ellin Oliver Keene Nell K Duke directly about professional development support.

Marcia Invernizzi directly about professional development support.

Jennifer Palmer directly about professional development support.

Seminars

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Teachers College Long Vowel Sessions Grade 2

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Teachers College Long Vowel Small Groups Grade 2

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Planning a Spelling Investigation Grade 2

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By Lucy Calkins, Natalie Louis, Marie Mounteer, Angela Báez, Havilah Jespersen, Lisa Hernandez Corcoran, Cynthia Williams, Rebecca Cronin, Celena Dangler Larkey, Shanna Schwartz, Valerie Geschwind, Katherine Lindner, Michael Rae-Grant, Teachers College Reading & Writing Project

The growth that second graders experience over the course of a year is incredible. Students start the year writing four or five sentences per page and end the year with ten or twelve sentences filling up a multi-page booklet. In reading, they go from reading early chapter books like Fly Guy to longer, more complicated books like Magic Treehouse. It's the year that most kids get hooked on a series, fall in love with characters, and follow them on all sorts of adventures. Second-grade phonics is about closing the gap between what kids can read and what they can write conventionally.

About the Series
The new Units of Study in Phonics:

provide a lean and concise instructional pathway in phonics that is realistic and doable, and that taps into kids' skills and energy for tackling the fabulous challenge of learning to read and write

introduce high-leverage phonics concepts and strategies in a way that keeps pace with students' reading and writing and helps them understand when, how, and why they can use phonics to read and write

offer delightfully fun and engaging storylines, classroom mascots, songs, chants, rhymes, and games to help students fall head over heels in love with phonics and to create a joyous community of learners

align with state-of-the-art reading and writing workshops for a coherent approach in which terminology, tools, rituals, and methods are shared in ways that benefit both teachers and kids

Overview of the Grade 2 Units

Unit 1 Growing into Second-Grade Phonics
The goal with this unit is to grow students' phonics knowledge so they know more of the options for how words could go. Alongside knowledge about words and spelling, you will teach the grit and intellectual curiosity they need to try to get closer to the right spelling. Bend I revisits the long list of phonics principles that students learned in kindergarten and first grade, and then gives particular attention to silent E, long vowels, vowel teams, and R-controlled vowels. The second bend asks students to spell tricky snap words correctly, punctuate sentences, and use capital letters. The unit also introduce the tricky concept of homophones. The third bend is a joyous exploration of rhymes and rimes that shows students that reading and writing part by part is more efficient than reading and writing letter by letter.
Unit 2 Big Words Take Big Resolve: Tackling Multisyllabic Words
The books that many second-graders read are full of multisyllabic words, and so instruction in this unit transitions to a focus on longer, more complex words. Across the first bend, you'll teach several strategies for decoding multisyllabic words-working methodically from left to right, breaking words into syllables, breaking off inflected endings-but your larger goal is to help kids develop the stance that readers tackle challenges, rather than back away from them. The second bend sheds light on the complex consonant combinations: kn, wr, and gn; how to be flexible with the hard and soft sounds of C and G; and the many facets of gh. You'll also teach students that when they hear /j/ at the end of a word they want to write, it is likely spelled with ge or dge. In Bend III, you'll turn your attention to the endings, or tails, of words and concepts such as adding - ing and - ed to words ending in silent E, doubling consonants before adding endings, making words plural with - s or - es, changing Y to I before adding - es or - ed, and - tion.
Unit 3 Word Builders: Construction, Demolition, and Vowel Power
This unit helps all children develop a repertoire of skills for tackling complex, multisyllabic words with confidence. Following a storyline where your class applies for a job to become word builders, you'll teach students that a word builder needs to be able to build words in big efficient parts, syllable by syllable. In the first bend, you'll introduce the emphasis on vowels that is threaded across the unit and you'll support children with using common phonograms to represent vowel sounds. In the second bend, you will tell students they have been selected to serve on a special task force in vowels. Your class will create a vowel manual as a tool to help people with spelling long-vowel sounds in big words. Across the bend, your students will tackle long vowels, identifying some of the most common spellings for each vowel sound and creating word sorts with each of these spellings. In Bend III, the focus shifts from spelling big words to decoding big words. Building off the work they did in Unit 2, students will add to their repertoire of strategies for breaking big words into manageable parts by paying close attention to vowels.
Unit 4 Word Collectors
Research is clear that for children's vocabularies to blossom and grow, they need access to language and all the forms it takes-listening to, talking with, reading and writing of language in playful and constructive ways. The first bend of this unit focuses on fostering word consciousness. You'll begin by reading The Word Collector by Peter H. Reynolds. Like the main character, Jerome, students learn to gathers words everywhere they go. They store words they learn first in shared word collector folders and later in their own word collector scrapbooks. You'll teach students that you can take one word, like paradise, and then think of other words that relate to it: utopia, candy shop, and perfection, to name a few. In Bend II, the focus shifts to studying compound words, with the aim of learning that word parts not only help readers to break a word apart, but also help them determine the meaning of a word, and then can be mixed and matched to make many new words. Bend III shifts students' focus to prefixes and suffixes and their effect on base words.

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Letter Lessons and First Words: Beyond First Words

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Letter Lessons and First Words Chapter 6: Beyond First Words Learning Long Vowels and Other Patterns

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Gots:
- Sharing of resources regarding long vowels was wonderful (thank you)
- keeping teaching of spelling and grammar short
- Hearing what my colleagues are doing regarding word study in their classrooms
Wants:
More modeling of word inquiry/study lessons :)
Thank you.

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Want: A systematic approach/program for spelling across all grades

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Resource bank of ideas for teaching word study.  Word study should become more of an inquiry focus.

Wants:
Time to dig a little deeper into data.  Is there an order in which certain vowel patterns should be taught?

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-can call small spelling group during readers or writers workshop; can make the link for the children tp put into practice the small group work when they are working independently
-make a plan
- I can integrate WTW more into my workshops

Want
-how to make a plan for all the groups and consistently (daily) reference the word work

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Gallery Walk was good because I got see some resources I could use right now in my classroom.

Want
I would like to get more resources to support my different spelling groups.

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Wants: After digging into data, what is next? How do we go about addressing the challenges for each for each group / child in a consistent approach. It cannot be me building 

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-got some great ideas on how to do a more fun word study in my classroom
got lots of resources on the padlet -thanks!
Want- looking forward to hearing more ideas on how it went in other classrooms

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What would you think if the different parts of the lesson were spread across a week or longer?  I really like the idea of a manual for students to refer to, but maybe students could  hunt for long I words, sort them and create their own manual?  Then a following day could be the "tip" day followed by fixing up a piece of writing on another day?

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For sure! I think those shorter bursts could be very beneficial and seem more "doable" for students and teachers as well. This is just ONE way that it could be done and I think it is important to make it fit with what works in our classrooms and meets the needs of our kids.

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3 Things I Learned
2 Things I want to Try
1 Wondering I Have

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Planning for Transfer in Whole Class Word Study

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TKS Whole Class Word Study: K-2 Planning for Transfer

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Morphological Awareness: One Piece of the Literacy Pie - International Dyslexia Association

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This reference manual includes several useful features:

takes teachers through how English spelling uses morphology to represent the meaning of words

teaches word sums and word matrices as tools for examining word structure and constructing and deconstructing words morphologically

contains a series of ready-to-use lessons, helping teachers and students act as word detectives who problem-solve the links between structure and meaning

targets vocabulary, reading, and spelling skills!

By: Peter Bowers

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Kendore Learning Store Teaching How the Written Word Works [WVC216] - This reference manual includes several useful features: takes teachers through how English spelling uses morphology to represent the meaning of words teaches word sums and word matrices as tools for examining word structure and constructing and deconstructing words morphologically contains a series of ready-to-use lessons, helping teachers and students act as word detectives

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3 Things I Learned:
-Teach word study in short, frequent bursts.
-New, engaging ways to make word study more inquiry based.
-Learning from my colleagues, by discussing what's working in their Classes

2 Things I want to Try
- word building (wordworks)
- grammar inquiry

1 Wondering I Have
- how I can set these systems up to teach as mini lessons, but also allows students the scaffolding to do independently during readers and writers workshop.

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3 Things I Learned:
- Word study is more than just spellings
- How to incorporate it into authentic contexts e.g. readers/writers workshops, read alouds etc
- Keeping the lessons short

2 Things I want to Try:
- Connecting the vocabulary element of word study to my read alouds (maybe have some sort of word wall for words we love from the books we read)

- I want to give time to students to inquire into words.

1 Wondering I Have:
- I'm wondering if we can have a school wide bank of resources for teaching mini phonic lessons.

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3 - Things I learned is the structure of teaching word study. I think it is helpful to use it as next steps
2- I would like to try planning for a month using the template provided by Sarah and reflect on it.
1- I am wondering if there is a resource can be used as a prompt for us teachers to help us when planning.

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2-Incorporating word morphology in an organic way in my teaching
Time Management

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- that word study is more than just letters and spelling
- morphology can be taught in an interesting and interactive way
- mentor sentences can be used to highlight learning intention

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- beautiful sentence
- gradient - from small words to largest

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- how can I ensure I incorporate the languages my students have into our word study lesson?

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3 things I have learned:
Progress over perfection
Words their Way is a resource
Highlight grammar snippets

2 things I would like to try:
Planning with big colorful post-it notes!
Having a word bank of words (like Sarah's bags) to build word webs, matrixes and spelling equations

1 thing I am still wondering:
Is there still a place for learning high frequency words?

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-word study is not just spelling
-word study can easily take an inquiry stance and be meaningful to students
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1- How to fit everything in

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Word study consists of more than just a letter pattern

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Progress over perfection - I forget this quite often.
Word Study can be fun! 😂

2:
Planning an inquiry rich lesson with a reasonable amount of resources.