Presented by Shannon Lockard Entry Task: As a team, list as many words as you can on the paper at your table, that have the root word aqua or aque

District Goal # 1. Teaching and Learning: Create a personalized learning environment where students achieve rigorous standards through quality instruction. Key Actions: 1.4 Quality Instruction By 2009, implement and evaluate plan to provide a personalized learning environment that allows for individualized and differentiated instruction to meet students’ needs. Content and Instructional Approaches: 2. Balanced Literacy 6. Guided Language Acquisition Design

1. Emergent Stage 2. Letter Name—Alphabetic Stage 3. Within Word Pattern Stage 4. Syllables and Affixes 5. Derivational Relations

Language Arts History

1.2.2 Apply a variety of strategies to comprehend words and ideas in complex text. Connect to Cognitive Content Dictionary Keep root, suffix, or prefix for a week

Root word in the center Branches from root with derived words and meanings Twigs from the branches of other forms of the derived word

Homophone sort Homophone dictionary Homophone Rummy

1. Find a chart 2. Answer the question 3. Ask a new question 4. Move to a new chart

Bear, D., Invernizzi, M., Templeton, S., & Johnson, F. (2004). Words Their Way: Word Study for phonics, vocabulary, and spelling instruction (3 rd Ed.) Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall. Bloodgood, J.W.; Pacifici, L.C. “Bringing Word Study to Intermediate Classrooms”. The Reading Teacher, November http// homophones.html