My kids have baggies stapled into their take-home folders to store their words in. It makes the words stand out and less likely to be lost! My guided reading groups are colors, so I had to think of something different to name my word study groups that was still applicable to colors. I like to print my students’ word sorts on colored paper. Based on those test results, I reworked the groups. I grouped my students in August, then gave the PSI/ESI again in December. I created this FOREVER FREEBIE to help you organize your groups, which is essentially the same exact spreadsheet, just printable:
I have a spreadsheet on Google Docs that I use to keep track of my groups. When a student misses three in one column, I stop grading and plan to start the student on that skill.
Instead, I circle the patterns that a student MISSES. I don’t fill out the scoresheets completely because I find that to be a royal waste of time. Maybe it will work for you, too! ORGANIZATIONįirst, you have to give your students the PSI or ESI test and score them using the WTW scoresheets. I finally figured out how to implement WTW in my room. I read the books, read blogs, attended workshops, and watched videos. Over the summer, my team decided that I was going to be in charge of word study, so I threw myself head first into Words Their Way. Although I was trained on WTW in college, I had NO IDEA how to implement WTW effectively in my classroom while differentiating to meet students’ individual needs. We just started using Words Their Way this year.
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