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Helping Students Own Language Through
Word Study, Vocabulary, and Grammar Instruction
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Helping Students Own Language Through
Word Study, Vocabulary, and Grammar Instruction
Welcome to the word study resource page! We hope you find these materials helpful. If you have word study materials that are teacher tested and approved that you would like to share, please email one of the consultants (email addresses to the right).
-Delia DeCourcy, Michele Farah, Diane Katakowski, Susan Koceski
Recommended Resources
District-provided Resources
- Guided Word Study for All Reading Levels from Hamilton Elementary, Troy Public Schools
- Letter to Parents about the Words Their Way Program from Lake Orion Community Schools
- Do’s and Don’ts with Words Their Way Instruction from Lake Orion Community Schools
Doug Fisher Resources
Mini Book Talk Books
- Bringing Words to Life: Robust Vocabulary Instruction by Isabelle Beck, Margaret McKeown, and Linda Kucan
- Learning Words Inside and Out: Grades 1-6 by Doug Fisher and Nancy Frey
- Words Their Way by Donald Bear, Marcia Invernizzi, Francine Johnston, and Shane Templeton
- Tools for Teaching Academic Vocabulary by Janet Allen
- Teaching Reading Sourcebook by Bill Honig, Linda Diamond, and Linda Gutlohn
Other Online Resources
- Academic Word Finder
- Alphadictionary (to foster word consciousness)
- Common Core State Standards Appendix A
- Grammar Fundamentals
- Rewordify
- Teaching Channel video with Sarah Brown Wessling
- Ted Ed Lesson – Does Grammar Matter? (lesson can be customized)
- “To Grammar or Not to Grammar, That Is Not the Question!” by Weaver, McNally and Moerman from Voices from the Middle
- Writing Next: Effective Strategies to Improve Writing of Adolescents in Middle and High School, a Report to the Carnegie Foundation of New York