Words Their Way™ -Syllables and Affixes Spellers Activity Sheets - 3rd Edition

Would you like to scaffold and reinforce your students in word work and make deeper connections to spelling patterns? This 135 page word study activity sheet resource includes all 58 word sorts to complement the ‘Syllables & Affixes’ (green book) from the Words their Way™ program. In fact, this resource fits nicely into whatever spelling or phonetic program you are using.

These worksheets or what I like to call activity sheets, can be used in small group lessons, or even in large groups. The activities are straightforward and allow for the gradual release model to allow students to work independently. In fact, each spelling pattern has the same instructions to make it easier for teachers and students. 

➡️Each sort includes 2 worksheets for students to practice their weekly word sorts, along with a 2 page assessment you can use.

✔The kinds of activities in this resource include:

• fill in the blank sentence work and word work
• matching pictures to words
• Circling correct words
• spelling words
• making new words

* Activities are different than those in the Digital Activity resource*

Students can store their sheets in a duotang or you can glue them into a notebook after sorting or writing the words.

➡️**For use to complement the 3rd edition Green Syllables & Affixesfrom the  Words Their Way™ program published in 2018.

✔Contents:

→Unit 1: Inflected endings -ing, ed, s, es (Sorts 1-9)

Including: review of vowel patterns in one-syllable words, adding ‘ing’ to VC, VCC, and VCe patterns, review of double, e-drop and nothing rules, adding ‘ed’, unusual past tense words, plural endings with ‘es’, unusual plurals and y+inflected endings

→Unit 2: Compound words (Sort 10-12)

including some abstract compound words

→Unit 3: Syllable juncture (Sorts 13-17)

Including: syllable junctures in VCV, VCCV, VVCV, VCCCV and VVpatterns, as well as open and closed syllables and inflected endings

→Unit 4: Vowel patterns in accented syllables (Sort 18-23)

Including: long a, i, o, u and e patterns in accented syllables

→Unit 5: Other vowel patterns in accented syllables (Sort 24-30)

Including: ambiguous vowels in accented syllables (oi, oy, ou, ow, au, aw, al), r-influenced a and o in accented syllables, words with w or /w/ sound before the vowel. Also er, ir, ur, ure, ear, and ere in accented syllables

→Unit 6: Unaccented syllables (Sort 31-40)

Including: le, el, il, al, er, ar, or, /chur/zhur/, en, on, ain, in, an, et, it, ate. As well as agents and comparatives, final y, ey, ie, y +inflected endings, and unaccented initial syllables a, de, be

→Unit 7: Exploring consonants (Sort 41-47)

Including: initial and final syllables with hard and soft c and g, the sound of /k/ spelled with ck, ic and x. Spellings with qu, words with silent consonants and gh ph.

→Unit 8: Affixes (Sorts 48-54)

Including: prefixes re, un, dis, mis, pre, non, in, fore, uni, bi, tri, (and other numbers). Suffixes y, ly, ness, ful, less and comparatives -er and est.

→Unit 9: Miscellaneous Sorts (Sorts 55-58)

Including: advanced compound words, homophones, homographs, and the i before e, except after c rule.

➡️→Activity Sheets are just one component of this Word Study Program. Also available is the Word Study Home Sorts as well as digital activities which are great for either distance learning or for more practice during literacy centers. Check out these other word study links:

Home Sorts

Digital Activities

➡️→→OR get all 3 in the Syllables & Affixes  BUNDLE, which includes all 3 resources - Home Sorts, Activity Sheets and Digital Activities.

➡️ Words are not exactly the same as in the Words Their Way™ program. Other words have been chosen to help students scaffold their learning with each sort. This program compliments the Words Their Way™ program, it does not replace it.

➡️Still unsure - check out the comprehensive program overview Word Study freebie to try out all aspects of this resource and the whole Word Study product. 

➡️Check out these customer reviews:

“Was able to use this and assign students work in their google classroom and written with all of your resources. Thanks so much for making differentiation easy!” Jessica L.

“Easy to understand and organize, print and go!” Jacqui M.

“My students loved doing this as part of their weekly packet.” Kristi S.

“I loved that they could work on this while I am working on small groups.” Vonda T.

“This is a very good resource to use in classroom when using Words their Way.” Tracy G.

**NEW** Self-checking Word Study Games

Check these self-checking word work games to reinforce spelling patterns, which are highly engaging for students. There is a range of games to play for each main group of sorts. There are at least one or more games for each sort. Students can navigate between games with ease. These games are designed to reinforce each spelling pattern using a variety of words from the Words their Way™ sorts.

Looking for more word study resources? Check out:

➡️Word Study for Alphabetic Spellers (red)

➡️Word Study for Word Pattern spellers (yellow)

➡️Word Study for Derivational Relations (blue)

➡️Available in activity sheets, home sorts and digital activities. Grab them individually or by color, activity type or get the whole lot in a mega super saver bundle.

These materials were prepared by Mummabell and have neither been developed, reviewed, nor endorsed by Pearson Publishing Company, publisher of the original Words their Way™ work on which this material compliments.

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