Word Study in the Biliteracy Classroom

Word Study in the Biliteracy Classroom

Jill Kerper Mora, Ed.D.
San Diego State University

Spanish Orthography

Phonemic awareness

Letter-sound correspondences

Spelling patterns

Syllabification

Diphthongs and syllable juncture

Categorization of words according to stressed syllable

Rules for the use of written accent marks

Structural Analysis

Word derivations: roots, prefixes and suffixes

Inflection and agreement (subject-verb, adjectives, possessives)

Enclisis (combining two classes of words)

Contractions (conjunción) and apócope

Compound words

Cognates

English Phonics

Consonants and vowels

Consonant blends and digraphs

Long and short vowels

R-controlled vowels

Vowel digraphs

Diphthongs

Homophones & homographs

Syllable juncture

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Word Study Activities

Picture sorts

Concept sorts

Letter-sound correspondence sorts

Same-vowel word families

Mixed-vowel word families

Word Hunt

Word Bank

Word Wall

High-frequency word study

Word strips

Word Study Notebooks

Dictation

Word games

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Bear, D.R., Invernizzi, M. , Templeton, S., & Johnston, F. (2000). Words Their Way: Word Study for Phonics, Vocabulary and Spelling Instruction. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Merrill-Prentice Hall.

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