![]() We go through the entire activity with students volunteering words that fit the choices we chose. The students help me choose “Making Connections” choices from the list that we have not used before. To do model this, we choose one word from our spelling list. It helps ensure the students understand the choice and understand how to find words that meet that requirement. I spend the first few weeks of school modeling each one of the choices. We do add to this list as the year goes on and the students become more proficient with these choices and are ready for more. Here are the “Making Connections” choices that students can choose from at the beginning of the year to complete this word study activity. This word study activity can be completed during centers or even as a whole group activity.īasically, students choose one of their spelling words for the week and then “Make Connections” between that word and other known words or words they specifically search for while they are reading. This post shares one of my favorite go-to word study activities for upper elementary students that I have used for the past five years. To be honest, I still struggle and my personal goal for this school year is to work on developing or finding more word study activities that are engaging, grade level appropriate, and truly help my students think about, analyze, and explore words. Since writing that post, I have gotten several questions about a word study activity I mentioned in the post.Īs an upper grades teacher, I have always struggled with finding word study activities that are appropriate for my students. A few years ago, I wrote a blog post about how I used a variation of Daily Three in my reading classroom.
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