Words Their Way with English Learners: Word Study for Phonics, Vocabulary, and Spelling (Words Their Way Series)

This book presents an effective, systematic approach to word-work that especially targets the needs of English learners. I found it to be a great addition to the other Words Their Way books.

While the spelling inventory is identical to other "Word Their Way" books, the teaching strategies are specifically geared to your English Language Learners.

I wanted to update: now that the pd toolkit is available the book is much more useful. They gave me a full 12 month access as soon as it became available. I owned the previous edition of this book, which is fabulous. I purchased the new edition mainly for access to the online toolkit. When I logged in with my access code it took me to the toolkit for the Words Their Way edition that is not for ELLs. WHile I used it it does not match any of the activities listed in the book. In the previous edition there were word lists and templates in the back of the book, in this edition you must access them online, but they are not available. I worked with Pearson support for a year and still have not gotten access.

Great book. I like the strategies and activities included.

I bought the book and the PDToolkit was great. Unfortunately, it stopped working after a few weeks. And then I got this email (I cut a few sentences with contact information) "PD Toolkit Customer, We are writing to update you on the availability of the PDToolkit for Words Their Way: Word Study for Phonics, Vocabulary and Spelling Instruction, 5/e and Vocabulary Their Way: Word Study with Middle and Secondary Students, 2/e. Over the past several months a number of our customers have experienced persistent issues with the PDToolkit that have made the product very difficult, and in some cases impossible, to use. On behalf of Pearson, we would like to apologize for these issues and for the inconvenience they may have caused you and your students. Our technology team has uncovered the underlying causes of the issues and is hard at work making the necessary repairs to the site. The PDToolkit will be temporarily unavailable while the repairs are being made. In the interim, we are taking the following steps to ensure you have access to the content you need. •On January 5, 2015 we will release a new interim site to provide access to the PDToolkit videos and PDF content. Please visit http://pdtoolkit.pearson.com/update/index.html to access the interim site. •If you need access to the PDToolkit PDF content prior to January 5, 2015, please email [email protected] to request the content you need. Please be as specific as possible so we can quickly and accurately fulfill your request. Once we have resolved the issues with the PDToolkit, we will re-release the site in spring 2015. We will keep you updated on our progress and provide more details on the timeframe for the re-release as they become available at http://pdtoolkit.pearson.com/update/index.html. When the site is re-launched, all registered users will have their access extended for 12 additional months at no charge. Thank you for your patience and understanding as we work to resolve these issues. " I do not have patience in fact and understanding as I bought it to help my 1st grade daughter during the school year. She needs the sorts now not in a few months. I emailed them to get specific sorts but I did not received any answer (very easy to be sent as a pdf but I got nothing). It is a pity because the flow of the book is good and the few sorts that I was able to print at the beginning were very helpful.

Great

I bought this book three months ago and the PD Toolkit is still unavailable to me. "Coming soon" seems to be misleading - I am not sure what Amazon's definition of "soon" is... But I am already halfway through my semester and I still have no access to the PD Toolkit. That being said, the PD Toolkit has not proven to be necessary for my studies, so thankfully the lack of access is not too detrimental: while the Toolkit offers extra resources, those resources are summarized in the book (it seems the toolkit more or less just provides examples of what is written in the book, as well as printable materials). However, it would certainly be a nice addition to have, especially at such a high cost and it is referred to A LOT throughout the book. I would recommend buying the book from elsewhere.

Excellent resource, easy to read

I have just started using this book with a Japanese exchange student who is struggling to speak the English language. She understands a great deal of English but is not comfortable speaking it. I had trouble using the online portions mentioned in the book but I contacted Pearson and the lady there was wonderful and got my account working. We used the Primary Picture Vocabulary last week. I was amazed that our Gr. 10 students did not know what some pictures represented. So it was a learning experience for me as well. The sorts are awesome. And I really like how the sorts can be done in more than one way as long as the student can explain why they did the sort the way they did. If the computer part had worked right away, I would have given this book and all the Words Their Way books 5 stars.