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Small Group - Lizzie - Syllable Segmenting Beat Walk - K-2

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TCRWP PA Assessments

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A love of reading starts with a solid foundation A love of reading starts with a solid foundation The Heggerty Way Bridge to Reading Our...

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Great resource to understandings and planning for phonics/spelling

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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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Jeff Anderson & Whitney La Rocca

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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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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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"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.

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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.

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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."

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Gots -
- strategies for developing phonological awareness
- reminder to focus on phonological awareness
-quick ways to incorporate across the day
-assessment samples

Wants
- more of the same for phonics/spelling, vocab, and grammar! :)

Great session, thank you!

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Heggerty assessments - would like to know how to build these strategies into our lessons.
Rhyming etc activities to use throughout the day.
More fun and engaging activities such as songs, rhymes, jokes.

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So many helpful practical learning strategies! Showing us how easy it is to implement
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- Practical ideas to use in the classroom (displays)
- Reminded us the importance of auditory sounds
- The whole phonemic awareness process
- Assessment tools

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Student led inquiry ideas

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Gots- The importance of all components of word study from simple to complex: phonological awareness, phonics, morphology, grammar/conventions. 

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Gots- The importance of all components of word study from simple to complex: phonological awareness, phonics, morphology, grammar/conventions. 

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Wants- practical, short lesson ideas that suit our daily schedules.

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Gathering WS Data from Writing Records.pdf

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Examples of assessing along the way to inform your instruction

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Spelling Stages - Determining  Instructional Focus

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Spelling Stages - Determining  Instructional Focus

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Spelling Stages - Determining Instructional Focus

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The Big Work of Readers and Different Phases of Development 

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The Big Work of Readers and Different Phases of Development 

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TCRWP

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Conferring with a Word Feature Lens -  Example

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Conferring with a Word Feature Lens -  Example

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EXAMPLE Whole Class/Small Group Word Feature Concepts ISF K-2

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EXAMPLE Whole Class/Small Group Word Feature Concepts ISF K-2

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EXAMPLE Whole Class/Small Group Word Feature Concepts ISF K-2

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Planning a Spelling Investigation Sample Plan #1

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Planning a Spelling Investigation Sample Plan #1

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Planning a Spelling Investigation Grade 2

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 Example - Planning a Spelling Investigation K-2

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Helpful:
- Analyzing the children's writing
- the cycle of posing a question that children investigate and analyze

Want to try:
- Words their way test then compare their writing
- posing a question and having the kids investigate into their phonics knowledge in reading and writing.

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Gots-
We really liked the inquiry approach for phonics instruction (question-investigate-analyze-transfer)

Wants-
What assessments do we implement across grades? Common assessments?
How do we ensure differentiation?

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Helpful - the inquiry / student led process - easy and engaging

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Gots -
Great ideas for inquiry for spelling patterns

Looking at spelling as patterns, not rules

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Jeff Anderson (2017)

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Planning Sheet for Grammar/Conventions Inquiry

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Planning Sheet for Grammar/Conventions Inquiry

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Free resource from Stenhouse

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Grammar Inquiry Sample (progressive concept)

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Grammar Inquiry Sample (progressive concept)

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-Adapted from Jeff Anderson's Patters of Power

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Patterns of Power Grammar Inquiry Sample

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Copy of Patterns of Power Planning Process ISF 

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Adjectives: Patterns of Power Planning Process ISF 

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GOTS - Patterns of Power is a really useful resource and give a clear structure for teaching grammar as inquiry.

WANTS - Do we need to teach the grammar lessons of four days, as opposed to one period?

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Planning for Transfer in Whole Class Word Study

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

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ISF Word Study K-2 Session 4 (Vocab & Morphology)

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3 Things I learned:
Morphology matrix
Phonemic Awareness importance!
Ways to include inquiry

2 Things I want to Try
Patterns of Power
Prefix/suffix matrix

1 Wondering
How do we fit it all in! :)

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3 Things I Learned:
- Importance of inquiry: starting with a question
- Many different ideas on how to incorporate play!
- Assessment tracking ideas are great also

2 Things I want to try:
- Try new hands on activities when teaching grammar
- Start with a question

Wondering:
- How to get parents on board with progress over perfection idea.....

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3 things I learned: the importance of integrating word study as part of every learning day in short bursts, making word study fun, modelling with proper sentences for students to see what is the ‘right’ way the sentences should look like.

2 Things I want to try:

Planning a morphology lesson and working on integrating short bursts of phonic practice at the start of lessons.

1 Wondering: How to educate our students' parents so they learn about the importance of process?

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3 things I learned
Morphology Matrix
Ideas for Inquiry
Structure for teaching grammar

2 things I want to try
Morphology Matrix
Inquiry based learning

1 Wondering
Time constraints

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3- Morphology activities
Inquiry Rich Grammar
Editing Process
2- More hands-on activities
Change approach to planning
1- How will we make Reader's and Writer's more inquiry based??

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3 Things I Learned - grammar inquiries, ideas to embed more of it it into our curriculum, different strategies to build into our lessons (eg rhyming) to make learning more organic and student-led.

2 Things I want to Try - more inquiry based learning and  morphology

1 Wondering I Have - how to fit this in with the time we have available!

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Sarah, can we have access to your slides from sessions 2 and 3 please?