Words Their Way™ for Within Word Pattern Spellers Activity Sheets - 3rd Edition

Would you like to scaffold and reinforce your students in word work and make deeper connections to spelling patterns? This 144-page word study activity sheet resource includes all 59 word sorts to complement the ‘Within Word Patterns’ (yellow book) from the Words their Way™ program. In fact, this resource fits nicely into whatever spelling or phonetic program you are using.

These worksheets or what I like to call activity sheets, can be used in small group lessons, or even in large groups. The activities are straightforward and allow for the gradual release model to allow students to work independently. In fact, each spelling pattern has the same instructions to make it easier for teachers and students. 

➡️Each sort includes 2 worksheets for students to practice their weekly word sorts, along with a 2 page assessment you can use.

✔The kinds of activities in this resource include:

• cut and paste
• fill in the blank sentence work and word work
• matching pictures to words
• Circling correct words
• word searches
• sorting with pictures and words
• spelling words
• identifying letters

➡️* Activities are different than those in the Digital Activity resource*

Students can store their sheets in a duotang or you can glue them into a notebook after sorting or writing the words.

**For use to complement the 3rd edition Yellow Working Within Words from the  Words Their Way™ program published in 2018.

✔Contents:

→Unit 1: Short and Long a, i, o, u, e - Picture/word sorts (Sorts 1-6)

Word sorts contrasting short and long vowels sounds and patterns CVC, CVCe , also final /k/ sound spelled ck, ke or k (Sorts 7-12)

→Unit 2: Common long vowel patterns -CVCe and CVVC (Sorts 13-17)

→Unit 3: Less common long vowel patterns (Sorts 18-25)

Including: ai, ay, oa, ow, oe, ew, ue, igh, y, ie, ei 

→Unit 4: R-Influenced vowel patterns (Sort 26-34)

Including: ar, or, are, air, er, ear, eer, ir, ire, or, ore, oar, our, ur, ure, wor, war

→Unit 5: Diphthongs and ambiguous vowel sounds (Sorts 35-39)

Including: long oi, oy, o, ōō, ŏŏ aw, au, ô, wa, al, ough, ou, ow

→Unit 6: Beginning and ending complex consonants (Sorts 40-48)

Including: silent kn, wr, gn, w blends, triple r-blends (scr, str, spr, the, shr, squ, spl), hard and soft c and g, final e: ce, ve, ze, se, ce, dge, ge, as well as tch and ch

→Unit 7: Homophones (Sorts 49-54)

Including: long a, e, i, o homophones, as well as r-influenced homophones and homographs

→Unit 8: Additional Sorts (Sorts 55-59)

Including: words starting with ‘a’ and ‘be’, contractions, plural endings with s and es, three sounds of past tense with ed, and irregular verbs

➡️➡️➡️→Home Sorts are just one component of this Word Study Program. Also available is the Word Study activity sheets, as well as digital activities which are great for either distance learning or for more practice during literacy centers. Check out these other word study links:

Home Sorts

Digital Activities

➡️➡️→→OR get all 3 in the Within Word Pattern BUNDLE, which includes all 3 resources - Home Sorts, Activity Sheets and Digital Activities.

Words are not exactly the same as in the Words Their Way™ program. Other words have been chosen to help students scaffold their learning with each sort. This program compliments the Words Their Way™ program, it does not replace it.

Still unsure - check out the comprehensive program overview Word Study freebie to try out all aspects of this resource and the whole Word Study product. 

➡️Check out these customer reviews:

“Was able to use this and assign students work in their google classroom and written with all of your resources. Thanks so much for making differentiation easy!” Jessica L.

“Easy to understand and organize, print and go!” Jacqui M.

“I use this source for additional spelling homework/practice. It is a great resource to send home for extra help.” Miss Landen

“These were a great resource for my students to complete at Center work.” Carol F.

“A great resource for teachers who use Words Their Way!!  Thank you!” Kara P.

“This resource has easy instructions that will make my parents' lives easier.” Linda O.

➡️**NEW** Self-checking Word Study Games

Check these self-checking word work games to reinforce spelling patterns, which are highly engaging for students. There is a range of games to play for each main group of sorts. There are at least one or more games for each sort. Students can navigate between games with ease. These games are designed to reinforce each spelling pattern using a variety of words from the Words their Way™ sorts.

Looking for more word study resources? Check out:

➡️Word Study for Alphabetic Spellers (red)

➡️Word Study for Affixes & Suffixes (green)

➡️Word Study for Derivational Relations (blue)

➡️Available in activity sheets, home sorts and digital activities. Grab them individually or by color, activity type or get the whole lot in a mega super saver bundle.

These materials were prepared by Mummabell and have neither been developed, reviewed, nor endorsed by Pearson Publishing Company, publisher of the original Words their Way™ work on which this material compliments.

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