1. Presented by Shannon Lockard slockard@psd1.org 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

3. 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 1.4.1 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

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

6. Language Arts History

7. 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

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

9. Homophone sort Homophone dictionary Homophone Rummy

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

11. 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 2004. http//www.all-about-spelling.com/list-of- homophones.html