<DIV sercontent> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"><B>Words Their Way ™ companion volumes, 2e</B></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">We believe that the hands-on word sorting approach to word study is invaluable to you and your students.  These stage-specific companion volumes to <I>Words Their Way: Word Study for Phonics, Vocabulary, and Spelling Instruction</I> provide a complete curriculum of reproducible sorts and detailed directions for the teacher working with students in each stage of spelling development, from emergent through derivational relations.  </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px" soNormal><B><I>NEW!</I></B> All second editions boast </P> <UL> <LI>Literature Connections making links between features being studies and valuable children's literature <LI>Targeted Learners sections that clarify which students will benefit most from the instruction <LI>Spell Checks and other Assessments available more frequently throughout <LI>High Frequency Words receive special attention  </LI></UL> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">Designed to help teachers working with transitional readers in the within word pattern stage of spelling development (Grades 1 – 4), the sorts in this companion volume help students begin contrasting long and short vowels and sorting words by grammatical and semantic features.  The book begins by reexamining short- and long-vowel sounds with picture sorts, moving on to word sorts to thoroughly examine vowel patterns and assess students' understanding of short- and long-vowel patterns.  The text moves on to dipthongs and other ambiguous vowel sounds, and finally to complex consonants and consonant clusters, contractions, inflectional endings and homophones.</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P></DIV>