Latest word on the word drawers

A few days ago I wrote a post about my dilemma with the phonetic word drawers I inherited.  After looking through all 8 drawer sets, I noticed that all the words were CVC words.  Since the cards have been used for many years and are in kind of beat-up shape, I decided to redo them.  I stayed up way too late last night working on them, but I know I will really like the finished outcome.  Instead of color-coding the words by vowel and consonant, I color-coded them according to the letter "set" they are in.  As I mentioned in the previous post, in my training the letters were divided into three groups.  I have listed the groupings here:

          Red:  r a m f b i t g          Yellow:  p o n l h u s c            Blue:   d e x q y z v w j k

For the word drawers, using Microsoft clipart and text boxes in a Word document, I made matching word and picture pairs using the letters in each color group.  Of course, the red group will have the fewest number of drawers, because it has the fewest letters and the other two groups incorporate letters from the previously learned groups.  Each drawer will have five words and their matching pictures.  I was able to come up with over 90 word/picture pairs, and I think that is a sufficient amount to allow lots of practice in decoding CVC words.  My training did not include the pink/blue/green series, but the way I have it set up my red/yellow/blue drawers would replace the "pink" series.  I plan to also make a set of "light blue" word drawers which will have words using short vowels and blends as well as a set of "green" word drawers which will include the vowel pairs and digraphs.  Below is a photo of one of the pages I made last night.  I will print this on white cardstock, laminate it and cut it out.  Then it should be able to fit into the word drawers I photographed in the previous post.

Here are links to the 16 pages I made.  You are welcome to download them and use them with your own children or children in your classroom.

Download red_word_drawer_1.doc        Download redyellow_word_drawer_2.doc

Download yellow_word_drawer_3.doc    Download yellow_word_drawer_4.doc

Download yellow_word_drawer_5.doc    Download yellow_word_drawer_6.doc

Download yellow_word_drawer_7.doc     Download yellow_word_drawer_8.doc

Download yellow_word_drawer_9.doc     Download yellowblue_word_drawer_10.doc

Download blue_word_drawer_11.doc      Download blue_word_drawer_12.doc

Download blue_word_drawer_13.doc      Download blue_word_drawer_14.doc

Download blue_word_drawer_15.doc      Download blue_word_drawer_16.doc

Comments

[autismtymz2]

Thank you so much :) New materials are always welcome in our home.

[amy smull]

This is my third year teaching. I have desperately been looking for ideas and guidance. I feel your sight provides just that. I have already made a new language set and love it. I would love to know what you do about documentaion and observations/record keeping.
Thank you !!!!

[Cecilia]

Thank you so much for sharing with us your work. It really helps by saving time looking for the pictures. Thank you for your generosity. Love all the work you've done and the time and effort you put it. Thank you so much once again!

[Natasha]

You are a wonderful woman and a great inspiration to me!! Thank you for all your great work that you do for the children in your classroom and also for all this interesting information you share with us.

[Sarah]

Thank you SO much for all the work you're doing. You're a big inspiration to me as well as a HUGE help!!! I'm starting to introduce my nearly 5yo daughter to lower-case cursive and have modified your wonderful work to suit what we are doing, what a blessing. I especially like that the kids can begin to form words after learning just 8 strategic letters. A great thing when the kids are a little older when they get their start.

[Umibrahim]

This is very nice, I am wondering if this a change from the pink green and blue boxes with montessori and why are the colors different ? The graphics are very very realistic in the green it makes it much more appealing.

[Holly]

Thank you so much for the time you are preparing for your fall arrival into Montessori once again. I am taking this whole year off with our newborn to prepare for our (then 5 and 4 year old) daughters to come home from Montessori to continue with homeschooling; Fall 2009. I love your Work and Downloads! I am so inspired!

[Lindart]

I would love to have a copy too! My language area needs some serious revitalization! Thanks for sharing!

[Laura]

I have posted a Help ticket with Typepad, so hopefully I will soon learn how to embed a link to a document download within the body of my posts.

[Shannon]

Laura
How generous of you! I would love to have a copy! And if you can figure out how to post to your blog please let me know because I would love to be able to share with others as well!