Savvas Words Their Way Classroom: Try Out a Lesson

Homeschool Supplemental Reading and Writing Curriculum

Preview a sample lesson from each stage.

Students will develop English Language Arts foundational skills including print concepts, phonological awareness, phonics and word recognition, and fluency through the developmental approach of Words Their Way Classroom.

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Emergent-Early Letter Name- Sort 8, Beginning Sounds r, s

Word Study Focus For Emergent Early Letter Name

  • Concept Sorts
  • Rhyming Sorts
  • Beginning Sounds
  • Letter Recognition
  • Ending Sounds
  • Digraphs
 

Letter Name- Sort 9, Words Families –op, -ot, -og

Word Study Focus For Letter Name

  • Beginning Consonants
  • Same Vowel Word Families
  • Digraphs and Blends
  • Mixed Vowel Word Families
  • Short Vowels
  • Preconsonantal Nasals
  • r- Influenced Vowels
  • Contractions
 

Within Word Pattern- Sort 31, Vowel Digraphs oo

Word Study Focus For Within Word Pattern

  • Short and Long Vowels
  • Other Long Vowel Patterns
  • r-Influenced Vowels
  • Dipthongs and Other Ambiguous Vowels
  • Complex Consonant Clusters
  • Homophones
 

Syllables and Affixes - Sort 49, Suffixes –y, -ly, -ily

Word Study Focus For Syllables and Affixes

  • Compound Words
  • Inflected Endings
  • Open and Closed Syllables
  • Accented Syllables
  • Unaccented Syllables
  • Consonants
  • Prefixes and Suffixes
  • Homophones and Homographs
 

Derivational Relations - Sort 30, Greek and Latin Elements cap, ped, corp

Word Study Focus For Derivational Relations

  • Prefixes and Suffixes
  • Greek and Latin Roots
  • Advanced Spelling-Meaning Patterns
  • Prefix Assimilation