
Word Lists and Story Combinations
Three effective strategies will help your student or child become proficient in decoding “targeted” spelling patterns and reading fluently: Glass Analysis, Word Master, and Structured Language Experience Stories. Glass Analysis word lists provide a series of words containing a specific spelling pattern for a child to decode (details). Word Master lists contain more challenging words with the same spelling pattern and provide children with additional opportunities for practice (details). Structured Language Experience Stories are brief stories containing specific spelling patterns and sight words that children are learning (details). By selecting a vowel or the consonants option, you generate Glass Analysis word lists, Word Master lists, and Structured Language Experience Stories for spelling patterns beginning with the specified vowel or with a consonant. Note that most patterns have two options. Option 1 is less complicated than Option 2. You select one or the other (or both) according to your child's needs.