Literacy Place for the Early Years Kindergarten Working With Words Guide

Literacy Place for the Early Years is a complete Canadian comprehensive literacy solution for Grades K-3. These resources support teachers every step of the way to meet the diverse needs of all students. Literacy Place for the Early Years covers a wide range of student literacy needs based in a balanced approach to reading and writing, with a gradual release and a wide range of high-interest texts.

Literacy Place for the Early Years features:

• Support for Reading, Writing, Oral Language, and Word Study

• Support for managing differentiated small-group instruction

• Ongoing practical assessment to inform instruction through a Planning Guide, and a Reading Guide, Writing Gide and Working with Words Guide for per grade

• Individual Teaching Plans for Shared and Guided Reading titles are available online

• Online Teacher Support includes reproducibles, assessment pagers, graphic organizers, and more

Literacy Place for the Early Years proudly boasts an expert team of Canadian educators from across the country who helped develop this resource.

This Guide includes Teaching Plans grouped into Five Areas of Working with Words:

1. phonological and phonemic awareness (K-1)

2. letter knowledge (K-1)

3. high frequency word recognition

4. word solving and building

5. language predictability Approaches to Working with Words instruction

The Guide presents 3 approaches to teaching the strategies in each of the above Five Areas (in context, focused lessons, and independent practice), including activities and lessons for each area using these 3 approaches, assessment support and tools (many also online), home connections, references, and additional resource list.*While quantities last.