This comprehensive guide describes a sequential system of daily word work to help students develop fluency in reading and writing high frequency words. The emphasis is on finding patterns and consistencies; discovering that new words are like words children already know. There are 180 carefully planned lessons that systematically introduce, teach, and reinforce words over time. Each lesson gives young learners the opportunity to talk about the words, and to look for special features in the words, such as blends, digraphs, vowel patterns, apostrophes, and word endings. They will use letter tiles to build these words and others like them. They will write the words in their own word books, and finally get to use the words in special writing tasks. This unique, in-depth study of each and every word will help you maximize the usefulness of your word wall, while making all of these important words meaningful for children. 208 pages.