Overview

The High Frequency Word Project is an explicit, systematic resource that explains the letter-sound links for 130 high frequency words, giving teachers strategies for making them stick. It also offers linguistically-accurate and fascinating stories about high frequency words' etymologies providing the missing link to explain their spelling. This edition contains: The What and the Why of High Frequency Words: essential information about the English spelling system The Words: 130 words explored by their history, their relationship to other words, and their grapheme-phoneme connections. Each entry is professional learning for teachers in bite-sized pieces. A Teaching Plan: a 3-step teaching process offering a detailed plan so teachers can get started right away Resources: word lists for planning, activities and games, assessments, and printables This book charts a new path for vocabulary building and orthography in a way that refuses to treat students like they can't handle complexity. Instead of forcing rote memorization of sight words, it reveals the logic behind the letters, using etymology, morphology, and phonology to make meaning stick. The result is both a treasure trove of word origins and a powerful professional learning tool, with bite-sized insights shining through every entry.

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""...chock full of purposeful lists, a teaching routine, relevant studies, and the fascinating history behind many of our most important English words, this is a must-have in every elementary school classroom!"" --Wiley Blevins, author of A Fresh Look at Phonics and Teaching Phonics and Word Study in the Intermediate Grades ""...it reveals the logic behind the letters, using etymology, morphology, and phonology to make meaning stick. Every page is grounded in respect for both language and learners. What a wonderful tool for igniting curiosity, adding context and planting the seeds to grow a deeper love of language."" --Jess Zafaris, author of Once Upon a Word and co-host of Words Unravelled ""In this book they offer a patient, thorough guide to teaching from word-stories. They go fearlessly into the knottiest sorts of words, and untangle them elegantly...All is enriched by their experience in making words and the history of language come alive for students of all sorts.""--Douglas Harper, author of ""The Online Etymology Dictionary""""This kind of historical story-telling is exactly what's needed to help make the world of spelling come alive, and it's great to see the approach applied to these words, which despite their high frequency are so often dismissed as inexplicable exceptions.""--David Crystal, linguist and author of The Stories of English and The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language

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