ELL students activities

These are great activities that you can do with your children. We will do this in class.

Word Sorts

With a word sort activity, students are provided with words that they sort into categories. The teacher can provide the categories, which is often referred to as a closed word sort, or students can complete an open word sort by creating their own categories.

• Words with two syllables
• Compound words

Word Hunts

Using the same concept as sorts, word hunts give students practice in searching for words that fit into their categories. Students can look through newspapers and magazines for words that they can add to their word sorts.

Alphabetizing

Another strategy for building spelling skills is to use the same word lists and cards that were used in the sorts and have students alphabetize them. Putting words in alphabetical order requires students to study the vocabulary words and pay close attention to spelling patterns

Books For words withing pattern stage

Fun Books. These book are fun because it evolves kids spelling and its engaging.

Apps for within words pattern stage

APP #1 this Reading mama App. Down Fall it is not Free

The Long Vowel Word Study app was created for spellers in the Within Word Pattern Stage of spelling. Spellers typically begin this stage at the beginning of 2nd grade and exit it in the beginning of 4th {although students who are younger or older may also be in this stage of spelling and reading.} Read more about this spelling stage in Teaching Kids to Spell or in Words Their Way.

• he can read & spell short vowel words consistently, even longer words with blends and digraphs, such as stand or thump
• he confuses his spellings of long vowel words. Early in this spelling stage, this may look like WATE for wait. Later in the stage, it may look like CRALLED for crawled.

APP #2 Word Wagon - by Duck Duck Moose

Word Wagon is fun to use with students at various spelling skill levels.

APP #3Spelling Shed

When teachers use the whole program, including the offline materials like printable, there's potential here for a comprehensive if traditional approach to spelling drills.

Within Word Pattern Stage

This a great video to review what we are going over in class. These are just examples of Within word pattern stage.

• Suggestions for Parents, view this and video,
• Ask you children to identify things around the house that you could spell.
• Have children write it on a sticky note and label the item in the room. leave it up for a couple of day and then remove and ask Child to spell the word for the item.
  
• If they get it wrong, have them spell it again with them and label item in house, repeat process.