Contractions, Homophones, and Compound Words

Since all of my students could use focused word study on these three types of words I stop my traditional differentiated leveled lists and do them whole class--kind of. Although the entire class is studying the same concept, they might have a different set of words. On Monday they take a pretest of words from List A. I check the pretest and assign students to a list. If they have all or nearly all of the words correct on the pretest they work with List B.

Here are the letters I send home to the parents explaining this:

Spelling Lists and Word Study Plans for each of these concepts are available on the appropriate pages.

Here are links to other resources I found on the web to use for word study:

Cherry Carl's Contraction Action!Cherry Carl's The Compound Connection

Compound Words: Jan Brett's Berlioz the Bear

Cherry Carl's Homophones Hideaway