WordWorks Teacher Resource Books

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Teaching How the Written Word Works                                         $25

Includes “Building Word Webs from the Word Matrix” booklet

(previously sold separately for $15)

 

Real Spelling 70 Word Matrices DVD                                             $40

This Real Spelling resource complements the our resource book.

It is either available through Real Spelling as part of the Real Spelling Tool Box 2, or separately by ordering through WordWorks.

Watch this video to get a quick look inside our WordWorks Teacher Resource Book. While this shows the original Pre-Release version, these lessons are in the new, revised edition also.

Bringing our book to life in the classroom!

In this clip, Sharon Reichstein, who was introduced to WordWorks in our Summer course, talks with Pete about how she integrates ideas from our book, Real Spelling, and her own lessons in her classroom instruction. After you see this, find out more about Sharon’s classroom here.

Our Revised Teacher Resource Book!

We are pleased to present the revised edition of “Teaching How the Written Word Works.” This edition uses the same core set of morphological problem-solving lessons.  As before, these lessons use word sums and word matrices to take teachers and students through all the morphological suffixing patterns. This new edition, however, has been throughly re-edited with new lessons and content, including integrating our previous separate booklet “Making Word Webs from the Word Matrix”.

Some of the new features of this edition include:

1. New and expanded lessons supporting morphological problem-solving;
   

2. Revised and updated content explaining details of English spelling, and how to investigate spelling / meaning connections in the classroom;
   

3. New lessons helping users build word matrices and use the Word Searcher and other resources;
   

4. Now includes an expanded and updated version of the booklet “Building Word Webs from the Word Matrix” that used ot be sold separately.
   

Can you explain the spelling / meaning connection between <corruption>, <disrupted> and <rupture>?

One improvement in this edition is that it provides more content and lessons to help teachers and students with concepts such as bound and twin bases. To test hypothesized connections between words such as <instruction>, <constructive> and <indestructible> learners need to be comfortable working with bound bases like <struct> for ‘build’. If a learner tries to sort out how the words <produce>, <product>, <reduction>, and <inducement> might be connected in meaning and structure, s/he needs to be able to work with twin bases like <duct/duce> for ‘lead, bring’.

When students and teachers work with word sums and morphological matrices for a little while, these are the kinds of questions that grab the attention of a class. The new “Teaching How the Written Word Works” provides a more comprehensive description of these elements, and lessons to help make morphological analysis with these elements just a part of everyday problem-solving with words.

Integrating morphological analysis into shared and guided reading lessons

As well as new lessons and information on specific features of English spelling, this new edition models ways to integrate word structure instruction into reading and writing in any content area by using morphological problem-solving as a tool for shared and guided reading.

Links to other resources analysis into shared and guided reading lessons

As before these lessons point the user to related themes in the Real Spelling Tool Box 2. The 70 Matrices DVD is another Real Spelling resource that complements this WordWorks resource book. The 70 Matrices DVD is available from Real Spelling as par of the comprehensive Tool Box 2 resource, or is sold separately ($40) through WordWorks.