The week started out as usual with our pretest on Monday and then the kids wrote their words in their planners for extra practice after they corrected their lists.
I had them do their word sorts in large groups, not such a good idea. There were quite a few behavior issues and some stronger personalities took over and didn't allow others to help. I will need to make some changes regarding how I have them work on word sorts next week.
On Wednesday, I had the kids work on learning about the words. They worked in small groups to divy up the words. Each student wrote the word, used it in a sentence and then drew a picture of the word. They then had to share their words with the group. My intent was for the students to learn from each other, but their listening skills were quite lacking. Not a lot of shared learning occured.
I had the students play word games on Thursday. I have used different game suggestions from Words Their Way to provide extra practice for each group. The kids truly love it when they get to play the word games.
Friday was the post test, I have noticed some students are really accelling and others are really struggling. I am going to give it another week before I make some group changes.
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