Word Journeys, First Edition Assessment-Guided Phonics, Spelling, and Vocabulary Instruction

by Ganske, Kathy

• ISBN13: 9781572305595
• ISBN10: 1572305592
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-04-25
• Publisher: The Guilford Press

Summary

This book presents a highly practical approach to assessing children's spelling and word knowledge abilities and offering effective, appropriate instruction. Included is the Developmental Spelling Analysis (DSA), a dictated word inventory that enables teachers to quickly and easily evaluate students' stages of spelling development and their knowledge of important orthographic features. Detailed guidelines are set forth for engaging students in hands-on word study that is tailored to their specific strengths and weaknesses. Validated and field-tested, the instructional techniques described here reflect the author's many years of classroom experience. Particularly useful features of the book include narrative "snapshots" of children at different stages of spelling development; numerous examples of student work; suggested word sort activities for each orthographic feature; lists of recommended books and poems; and a focus on fostering a love of words through word play and language appreciation. Provided in the appendices are reproducible forms for administering the DSA, plus a list of over 12,000 words arranged by sound, pattern, and meaning-related features.

Author Biography

Kathy Ganske, PhD, is an assistant professor in the Department of Reading at Rowan University, Glassboro, New Jersey, where she teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in literacy and supervises the reading clinic. Before receiving her doctorate from the University of Virginia, she was a long-time classroom teacher of the primary through upper elementary grades who taught in many regions of the country. Dr. Ganske is a popular consultant and leader of inservice workshops.

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(6)
PART I. UNDERSTANDING CHILDREN'S WORD KNOWLEDGE
A Developmental Perspective	7	(20)
Emergent Spelling	8	(2)
Letter Name Spelling	10	(3)
Within Word Pattern Spelling	13	(4)
Syllable Juncture Spelling	17	(6)
Derivational Constancy Spelling	23	(4)
Assessing Word Knowledge: The Developmental Spelling Analysis	27	(48)
The Screening Inventory	28	(4)
Dictation	28	(2)
Scoring	30	(2)
The Feature Inventories	32	(18)
Dictation And Scoring	34	(3)
Analyzing Feature Performance	37	(6)
Recording Results	43	(5)
Instructional Implications	48	(2)
The Assessment	50	(25)
Steps In Brief	50	(3)
DSA Feature Inventory, Form A	53	(10)
DSA Feature Inventory, Form B	63	(12)
PART II. FOSTERING CHILDREN'S WORD KNOWLEDGE
Planning Appropriate Instruction	75	(37)
Word Sorting: Getting Started	76	(4)
Determining The Categories	77	(2)
Selecting Words	79	(1)
Establishing a Routine	80	(24)
A Word Walk: Introducing The Sort And Building Vocabulary	83	(2)
Sorting Variations	85	(7)
The Word Study Notebook	92	(6)
Game Applications	98	(3)
Weekly Evaluations	101	(3)
Learning to Love Words	104	(7)
Modeling With Literature	104	(3)
Words Have Histories Too	107	(1)
Playing With Words	108	(3)
Looking Ahead	111	(1)
Letter Name Word Study	112	(15)
Initial and Final Consonants: Feature A	114	(4)
Initial Consonant Blends and Digraphs: Feature B	118	(2)
Word Families and Short Vowels: Feature C	120	(4)
Affricates: Feature D	124	(2)
Final Consonant Blends and Digraphs, Including More Word Families: Feature E	126	(1)
Within Word Pattern Word Study	127	(18)
Long Vowels with VCe: Feature F	129	(3)
R-Controlled Vowels: Feature G	132	(1)
With Short Vowel Patterns	132	(1)
With Long Vowel Patterns	133	(1)
Other Common Long Vowel Patterns: Feature H	133	(2)
Complex Consonant Patterns: Feature I	135	(4)
Triple-Letter Blends	136	(1)
Final/K/Sound	137	(1)
Final TCH And DGE	137	(1)
Hard and Soft C And G	138	(1)
Silent Consonants	138	(1)
Abstract Vowels: Feature J	139	(1)
Other Features for Study	140	(5)
Sounds of the Ed Inflectional Ending	140	(1)
Homophones	140	(4)
Contractions	144	(1)
Syllable Juncture Word Study	145	(23)
Compound Words	146	(2)
Doubling and E-Drop with ed and ing: Feature K	148	(4)
Other Syllable Juncture Doubling: Feature L	152	(6)
Across-Syllable Patterns	152	(4)
Syllable Stress	156	(2)
Long Vowel Patterns in the Stressed Syllable: Feature M	158	(1)
R-Controlled Vowels in the Stressed Syllable: Feature N	159	(1)
Abstract Vowels in the Stressed Syllable	160	(1)
Unstressed Syllable Vowel Patterns: Feature O	160	(2)
Other Features for Study	162	(6)
Plurals And Possessives	162	(2)
Prefixes And Suffixes	164	(2)
Homographs	166	(1)
More Homophones	166	(1)
Final/K/Sound Revisited	167	(1)
Derivational Constancy Word Study	168	(17)
Silent and Sounded Consonants: Feature P	170	(1)
Consonant Changes (Alternation): Feature Q	170	(2)
Vowel Changes (Alternations): Feature R	172	(2)
Latin-Derived Suffixes: Feature S	174	(2)
Other Features for Study	176	(3)
Doubling With Polysyllabic Base Words	176	(2)
More Homographs	178	(1)
More Plurals	179	(1)
Assimilated (Absorbed) Prefixes: Feature T	179	(2)
Greek and Latin Roots	181	(4)
Questions and Answers	185	(138)
A Final Word	194	(3)
APPENDICES
Appendix 1. Supplemental Word Lists	197	(102)
Letter Name	199	(12)
Within Word Pattern	211	(16)
Syllable Juncture	227	(32)
Derivational Constancy	259	(40)
Appendix 2. Reproducible Forms	299	(18)
RESOURCES
Children's Literature	317	(4)
Word Play and Word Histories	321	(2)
Glossary	323	(10)
References	333	(4)
Index	337