Want to have your students engaged in your word study block? This no prep DIGITAL resource compliments the Words their Way™ program, but can also be used without it? This resource is exactly what you have been looking for. It covers the green book of word sorts for ‘Syllables and Affixes’ and is perfect for distance learning, literacy centers, daily 5 , small group, large group and more.
This digital version of the word sorts is the result. Instructions for teachers are included in a 19 page PDF file for the +130 activities. This includes all the links for all 58 sorts you will need.
This resource complements the 3rd Edition of the Words Their Way™ Syllables and Affixes teacher manual.
The easiest way to assign the sorts to your groups is within Google Classroom. This makes organization so much easier. You can assign a section of sorts, or just assign the weekly sort. All the students need to do in the activities is to click in the box and type their response or drag a picture and/or word into place.
This also works without Google Classroom. Simply assign via email or do as a group on the interactive whiteboard.
➡️**NEW** This resource is now available for use in Seesaw. All links are provided for you to save the activity within Seesaw and have your students complete it. Zero prep for you!
➡️Ideas for classroom use:
Can be used as part of your Literacy centers, use alongside your Words their Way™ program, use in small groups, or homework, or as extra practice. You can add this resource right into your weekly schedule of activities. Even if you don’t use Words their Way™, you can certainly use this resource for your word work activities in your classroom.
Each sort comprises 2 Google slides worth of reinforcement activities. As well, each spelling pattern unit comes with a 2 slide assessment piece. There are over 130 google slides of activities for the sorts and over 100 pages preloaded in Seesaw.
✔Contents:
→Unit 1: Inflected endings -ing, ed, s, es (Sorts 1-9)
Including: review of vowel patterns in one-syllable words, adding ‘ing’ to VC, VCC, and VCe patterns, review of double, e-drop and nothing rules, adding ‘ed’, unusual past tense words, plural endings with ‘es’, unusual plurals and y+inflected endings
→Unit 2: Compound words (Sort 10-12)
including some abstract compound words
→Unit 3: Syllable juncture (Sorts 13-17)
Including: syllable junctures in VCV, VCCV, VVCV, VCCCV and VV patterns, as well as open and closed syllables and inflected endings
→Unit 4: Vowel patterns in accented syllables (Sort 18-23)
Including: long a, i, o, u and e patterns in accented syllables
→Unit 5: Other vowel patterns in accented syllables (Sort 24-30)
Including: ambiguous vowels in accented syllables (oi, oy, ou, ow, au, aw, al), r-influenced a and o in accented syllables, words with w or /w/ sound before the vowel. Also er, ir, ur, ure, ear, and ere in accented syllables
→Unit 6: Unaccented syllables (Sort 31-40)
Including: le, el, il, al, er, ar, or, /chur/zhur/, en, on, ain, in, an, et, it, ate. As well as agents and comparatives, final y, ey, ie, y +inflected endings, and unaccented initial syllables a, de, be
→Unit 7: Exploring consonants (Sort 41-47)
Including: initial and final syllables with hard and soft c and g, the sound of /k/ spelled with ck, ic and x. Spellings with qu, words with silent consonants and gh ph.
→Unit 8: Affixes (Sorts 48-54)
Including: prefixes re, un, dis, mis, pre, non, in, fore, uni, bi, tri, (and other numbers). Suffixes y, ly, ness, ful, less and comparatives -er and est.
→Unit 9: Miscellaneous Sorts (Sorts 55-58)
Including: advanced compound words, homophones, homographs, and the i before e, except after c rule.
➡️The kinds of activities in this resource include:
- sorting words
- typing words into patterns
- cloze sentences
- missing letters/sounds
- Identifying how words are sorted
- sentence writing
- paragraph writing
- changing vowels in words
- adding plurals and other sounds to words
- alphabetizing words
- recognizing syllables in words
- solving clues
* Activities are different than those in the Practice Worksheet resource*
➡️Why use digital resources?
- paperless classroom - no printing!
- differentiation
- high student engagement and motivation
- improve student writing
- students work directly on their own copy
- Ideas and work saved automatically
- infuse technology into your classroom
- 21st century learning
- access anywhere and offline
- can be used on the Google Drive, MS OneDrive, Microsoft 365, Google Classroom, Canvas, Blackboard, Smartboards, Seesaw and learning management systems
➡️Digital Activities are just one component of this Word Study Program. Also available is the Word Study activity sheets, as well as Home Sorts. Check out these other word study versatile products:
Activity Sheets
Home Sorts
→→OR get all 3 in the Syllables and Affixes, BUNDLE which includes all 3 resources - Home Sorts, Activity Sheets and Digital Activities.
Words are not exactly the same as in the Words Their Way™ program. Other words have been chosen to help students scaffold their learning with each sort. This program compliments the Words Their Way™ program, it does not replace it.
➡️Still unsure - check out the comprehensive program overview Word Study freebie to try out all aspects of this resource and the whole Word Study product.
➡️Check out these customer reviews:
“My students enjoy using these and it is such a quick way to keep them moving through their spelling work each week! Thank you!” Heather F.
“Love that there is zero prep with these slides and they are student-friendly.” Allison H.
“Wonderful to use during remote learning and follows along great with WTW!” Nancy K.
“I love that I can differentiate WTW lists quickly and easily even in our remote learning times!” Primary Beacon
“Great resource, easy for me to use and the students really engaged with it!” Science Wonder & Art
“Great resource for building word level foundational skills.” Dawn M.
Looking for more word study resources? Check out:
➡️Word Study for Alphabetic Spellers (red)
➡️Word Study for Within Word Patterns (yellow)
➡️Word Study for Derivational Relations (blue)
➡️Available in activity sheets, home sorts and activity sheets. Grab them individually or by book series or by activity type or get the whole lot in a MEGA SUPER SAVER BUNDLE.