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=Where does Word Study (also known as Word Inquiry or Word Work) fit in a Balanced Approach to Literacy?=

**What are the Big Ideas about Word Study? **
 * **Focus Areas – ‘Big Ideas about Word Study’** || **Major Teaching Practices** || **Learning Strategies** || **Tools** ||
 * Word meanings

Spelling

Spelling strategies e.g. chunking, looking for little words in big words, using memory aids

Rhyming

Phonemic awareness - blending, segmenting, deletion, substitution

Phonics e.g. consonants, vowels, blends, digraphs

High frequency words/ ‘sight words’

Homophones/homonyms

Synonyms/Antonyms

Word building – root words etc

Over-used words e.g. said, then, nice

Compound words

Contractions

Word families

Onset and rhyme

Prefixes and suffixes

Word origins

Syllabification

Word fun –playing with words e.g. onomatopoeia, alliteration,

Vocabulary

Morphology || Phonemic blending, segmenting, deletion, substitution

Onset and rhyme

Building word families

LSCWC (Look, Say, Cover, Write, Check)

Mini lessons

Group brainstorms/class brainstorms

Memorisation of high frequency words e.g. ‘No excuse’ words

Anchor charts e.g. what can I do when I don’t know how to spell a word?

Class and group sorts – picture sorts, word sorts || Letter/word manipulation

Word scramble

‘Word of the day’, ‘Word of the week’

Print walks

‘Have a go’

Identifying interesting words in context

Word sorts/letter sorts – open, closed, peer and blind sorts

Word banks

Letter search/sound search

Elkonin boxes

Word games/spelling games e.g. hangman || Flash cards

Small whiteboards with magnetic letters

Letter tiles

Pipe cleaners, playdough, flour, sand trays

Word walls

Dictionaries (personal, commercial)

Thesauruses

Spelling journals or logs/ spelling notebooks or folders

Envelopes/pouches for word sorts

‘Have a go’ cards/books

Commercial or teacher made spelling cards and games

Online spelling programs e.g. Spelling City, Spellodrome

‘Words Their Way’ materials ||