Working With Words

Dolch Sight Word List
	Here Comes the Big Blocks

Word Wall Presentation 1.zip	Word Wall Presentation 2.zip	Word Wall Presentation 3.zip
High Frequency Words Part 1 Guess the Word.zip	High Frequency Words Part 2 Guess the Word.zip	2nd Grade Word Wall Bust the Bank Game.zip
These Words Bug Me! Primer Words1.zip, a-c	Colorful Words Primer Words2.zip, d-n	Surfing With Words Primer Words3.zip, o-w
Festive Words First Grade Sight Words Part 1.zip	Western Word Round-Up First Grade Sight Words Part 2.zip	Words of Wonder First Grade Sight Words Part 3.zip
Guess the Covered Word, Word Wall I, Grade 2.zip Courtesy Joanne Whitley	Guess the Covered Word, Word Wall 2, Grade 2.zip Courtesy Joanne Whitley	Guess the Covered Word, Word Wall 3, Grade 2.zip Courtesy Joanne Whitley
Guess the Covered Word, Word Wall 4, Grade 2.zip Courtesy Joanne Whitley	Phonics Millionaire Game.zip	Pre-Primer High Frequency Word List Part 1 ziped file Courtesy Julie Province
Pre-Primer High Frequency Word List Part 2 ziped file Courtesy Julie Province	Pre-Primer High Frequency Word List Part 3 ziped file Courtesy Julie Province	Pre-Primer High Frequency Word List Part 4
Pre-Primer High Frequency Word List Part 5	Tested 2nd Grade Reading Vocabulary Part 1 Grade 2.zip Courtesy Sharon Cameron	Tested 2nd Grade Reading Vocabulary Part 2  Grade 2.zip Courtesy Sharon Cameron
Tested 2nd Grade Reading Vocabulary Part 3 Grade 2.zip Courtesy Sharon Cameron	Hillsborough Squares PowerPoint Game	Downloading Practice Files
	Guess the Covered Word PowerPoint Template

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Words and Technology

The goal of working with words is to provide children opportunities spelling and reading words through activities that build phonemic awareness and application of phonetic skills. There are many programs that state they teach phonetic skills. However any approach that presents the skill in isolation will not be successful because it allows little or no transfer.Several Interactive Books are available as computer software for children. This type of software presents popular pieces of children’s literature. The text is read to the children by the computer and hot spots (playthings) are hidden through out the screen.These programs are basically entertainment, providing limited vocabulary or phonemic enrichment.

Since the manipulation of letters is so important in the Words Block, technology can provide the teacher the materials and resources that can be downloaded to their classroom computer.

Multimedia vocabulary cards can be created through PowerPoint or Hyperstudio.The teacher could record a sound file by reading the word and a sentence with the word that is then inserted in the appropriate slide.
 
 

The activities in the working with words section allow a teacher to observe, teach, mentor, and evaluate children in spelling and reading words in a manner that is both timely and efficient. These activities are multi-level and whole group. Presently, more practice, instruction, and assessment can be done using the activities described in Four Blocks materials than any one or two programs can provide.

Web Resources for the Word Block:

·Word Identification and Recognizing Word Patterns using "Goodnight Moon" (lesson plan), http://lessonplanspage.com/LAWordIDPatternsGoodnightMoonK1.htm

·PuzzleMaker, http://puzzlemaker.school.discovery.com/

·Phonemic Awareness, http://www.geocities.com/Wellesley/Atrium/1783/PhonemicAwareness.htm

·Word Walls, http://www.geocities.com/Wellesley/Atrium/1783/WordWalls.html

·Word Wall, http://members.nbci.com/_XMCM/lteacher/wwall.htm

·The Phonics Room, http://members.aol.com/phonicsrm/index.html

·Grade 1 Spelling Game, http://candlelightstories.com/D001/Vocab1.asp

·A Spelling Test of the Most Commonly Misspelled Words, http://www.sentex.net/~mmcadams/spelling.html

·Words in A Word Interactive Game, http://24.2.81.10/fcgi-bin/jumble.pl

·Sound of English Dictionary of Phonetic Sounds, http://www.soundsofenglish.org/

·Making Words PowerPoint Presentation, http://www.lesd.k12.az.us/RSF/multiage/mwppt/index.htm

·Making Words Homework Sheet, http://www.teachers.net/4blocks/lennette_making_words_hmwk.dochttp://www.teachers.net/4blocks/lennette_making_words_hmwk.pdf

·Word Wall Chants, http://www.teachers.net/4blocks/kelley_ww_chants.pdf

·Word Wall Charts, http://www.teachers.net/4blocks/kelley_ww_list.pdf

·Working with Words, http://www.teachers.net/4blocks/kelley_working_with_words_checklist.pdf

·WordO, http://www.teachers.net/4blocks/kelley_wordo_form.pdf

·WordO Form 2, http://www.teachers.net/4blocks/kelley_wordo_form_2.pdf

·Karen’s Word Wall 2^nd Modern Primary, http://www.teachers.net/4blocks/karens_word_wall_2nd_ModPri.pdf

·Karen’s Word Wall 2^nd National First Font, http://www.teachers.net/4blocks/karens_word_wall_2nd_nff.pdf

·Karen’s Word Wall Words 3^rd Ariel, http://www.teachers.net/4blocks/karens_word_wall_words_3rd_arial.pdf

·Karen’s Word Wall 3^rd Modern Primary, http://www.teachers.net/4blocks/karens_word_wall_words_3rd_ModPri.pdf

·Karen’s Word Wall 3^rd National First Font, http://www.teachers.net/4blocks/karens_word_wall_words_3rd_natff.pdf

·Karen’s Making Words 01, http://www.teachers.net/4blocks/karens_making_words_01.pdf

·Karen’s Making Words 02, http://www.teachers.net/4blocks/karens_making_words_02.pdf

·Karen’s Making Words 03, http://www.teachers.net/4blocks/karens_making_words_03.pdf

·Karen’s Making Words 04, http://www.teachers.net/4blocks/karens_making_words_04.pdf

·Karen’s Making Words 05, http://www.teachers.net/4blocks/karens_making_words_05.pdf

·Karen’s Silent Letters, http://www.teachers.net/4blocks/karens_student_letters.pdf

·Karen’s Big Letters, http://www.teachers.net/4blocks/karens_big_letters.pdf

·Working With Words Reference Cards, http://www.teachers.net/4blocks/activity_cards_www.dochttp://www.teachers.net/4blocks/www_activitycards.pdf

·Using Words You Know, http://www.teachers.net/4blocks/words_you_know.pdf

·Mystery Word Match, http://www.teachers.net/4blocks/ella_mystery_word_match.pdf

·Word Block Plan, http://www.teachers.net/4blocks/WordBlock_M_G_T.html

·Dolch Lists http://www.theschoolbell.com/Links/Dolch/Dolch.html