Friday, June 16, 2023

June 12-16, 2023

Word Work

(Grades Three and Four)

    Word Work is a hands-on time to explore the spelling and/or meaning of words (vocabulary). Planned tasks help spelling patterns, sight words and term meanings to be enforced into a student's long-term memory.  In turn, enhancing reading, spelling, and writing skills. Here are a few of the grade three and four Word Work tasks we have enjoyed throughout the year.

Read and Roll: Students roll a dice, read a word from the rolled column (for example 6- adventure) and then cover. Free versions of these games are widely available on the internet.

Word Sorts:  Look at a group of words and then sort accordingly. Examples of word feature sorts could be sound, spelling pattern (word family) and meaning. We often did these on white boards.

Read each word and then sort the following words into 

“ai” and “ay”

May, rail, snail, day, stay, paid, play, braid, tray, brain, plain, gray, tail

“ai” “ay"

Build It: A favourite task is building terms with a variety of materials. 

Scrabble tiles,  plastic letters, pipe cleaners, play dough, and letter beads

Choice Boards: Word Work is not limited to reading or spelling words. Students may also work with science or social studies terms. Below students are asked to choose a desired task for the vocabulary provided.

"Write the Room": Get on your feet and circulate around the room preforming purposeful vocabulary tasks.

Grade Fours -Learning "Simple Machines" terms through a "Write the Room"

Assorted Vocabulary Tasks:

  

                                             

A grade 4 student using pictures and words to define "Simple Machine" terms.