"Word Study with Multilingual Learners: Phonics, Spelling, and Vocabulary Instruction" is the most complete resource available for teachers to use as you facilitate research-based word study in classrooms with students from varying language backgrounds. Empower your students to grasp this new language at the word level, building skills…

"Word Study: Letter Name-Alphabetic Sorts for Spanish-Speaking Multilingual Learners" is the ideal stage-specific companion to "Word Study with Multilingual Learners." Beginning with picture concept sorts, it provides strategies to help teachers make sorting meaningful. The text develops a routine for introducing English…

"Word Study with Students Who Struggle: Reading, Vocabulary, and Spelling Instruction, Grades 4-12" is intended for the middle and secondary classroom teacher. This handy book emphasizes the use of word study with its hands-on, accessible approach, to help students catch up with their peers. This book will help you determine student…

This is a practical article for teachers in the primary grades and for other teachers and reading specialists whose students experience difficulty responding automatically to high-frequency words. In this article, we will begin by providing some helpful information about vocabulary and high-frequency words in particular. You will learn why…

Discusses why word families should be taught. Argues that the timing of such instruction is critical and that teachers can use children's invented spelling to determine what they already know and what they are ready to learn. Offers a developmental perspective to guide teachers in the planning and pacing of word-family instruction. (SR)

Suggests lessons based on categorizing and several learning modalities to expand students' vocabulary. (MKM)

Offers exercises to assist poor readers as well as good readers in using the dictionary. (DD)

Describes a word analysis procedure for college developmental readers in which an unfamiliar word is written on the board, suffixes and prefixes marked off, and familiar related words offered as clues. Notes that students must use a similar procedure throughout the term in identifying how they analyzed unknown words. (RS)

Provides questions that help students focus on the significant differences between words when studying synonyms. (MM)

This concise book shares several sensible, logical, and meaningful approaches that guide young children to use the written coding system to read, spell, and make meaning of the English language coding system. The book demonstrates that phonics, spelling, and word study are essential parts of literacy learning. After an introduction, chapters are:…

Cites a number of references from linguists and other researchers about the relative unimportance of knowing where to divide words according to rules. Offers alternative ideas for teaching syllabication. (FL)

Designed to motivate word study in fifth graders, this learning center includes five separate stations with activities in etymology and language study. (SJL)

Suggests creative ways to interest students in the "magic" of words through word game activities. (DF)

Describes how, by systematically creating new words from known ones, remedial readers can improve their word attack skills. (DD)

Suggests categorization of words as an alternative to traditional word study. (MKM)