Animal Concept Sort:

a. animals that live in water /

animals that do not live in water

b. mammal / non-mammal.

c. alive today / not alive today

Closed Animal Concept Sort

Open Animal Concept Sort

Short Vowel Family:

a. Sort by pictures that sound alike at the end (-at, -an)

b. Sort by words that sound and look alike at the end.

Closed Picture Sort

Open Sort

Open Sort

Consonant Doubling Sort:

run

stroll

slip

swim

shop

stop

flop

land

dive

Closed Sort: Sort into pairs

Closed Sort

Closed Sort

Open Sort 1

Open Sort 2

Sorts for Workshops

Showing Students How to Sort

Sorting from the Bags

GREEN man, can

BLUE 7.x: long a, mail, slay; short a, cab

YELLOW 7-x: oo, oo, ow, ou

ORANGE 8.1 no change, double, e-drop: running standing diving

PINK animal concept sort

NEON PINK 8.22 –tion, -ate, duct-, -ive, dic-, in-, con-

RED prefixes: astro-, photo- , bio-, eco-, hydro-, hypo-

SPECKLED DR: profess-profession WHITE

Show Your Students

How to Sort

Animal Picture Sort

Monkeys, Bears, and Dogs

Open Sort

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Closed Sort: Animals / Non-animals

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Animal Concept Sort:

a. animals that live in water /

animals that do not live in water

b. mammal / non-mammal.

c. alive today / not alive today

Closed Animal Concept Sort

Open Animal Concept Sort

-at -an word study sheet

from

Words Their Way CD

Short a Family Picture and word Sort

-at -an

Key Pictures

Picture Sort -at -an

Shuffled Stack of Pictures

Word Sort -at -an

Shuffled Stack of Words

Consonant Doubling Sort:

run

stroll

slip

swim

shop

stop

flop

land

dive

Closed Sort: Sort into pairs

Closed Sort

Consonant Alternations

/t/ to /sh/ connect / connectionselect / selectionattract / attraction

silent / sounded sign/signal condemn / condemnation soft/soften

The spelling of the base word remains the same, despite the change in sound.

/k/ to /sh/ music / musicianmagic / magician

Closed Sort

Open Sort 1