word sorts on the iPad- with the Essential Word Sorts app

Using Bear's Primary Spelling Inventory and analysis of student reading and writing...
I identify the instructional needs of each Butterfly.

Word sorts provide an active opportunity for learners to explore, analyze, discover, compare, and... sounds, spelling patterns, and word features.  Word sorts promote word analysis that encourages flexible and fluent decoding and encoding as readers and writers.

The First Grade Butterflies access and complete word sorts, individualized to their developmental needs as a reader, writer, and speller, in the Essential Word Sorts for the Primary Grades Student iPad app.

I utilize the Essential Word Sorts for the Primary Grades Teacher iPad app to manage and monitor student sorts and progress.

Essential Word Sorts for the Primary Grades iPad app
-mirrored on the SMART Board 

a first grader sorts words by short vowel sound

Move and Match- word sorts

One way we use the Move and Match iPad app in the First Grade Butterfly classroom is for sound and word sorts.

I create custom sound and word sorts within the Move and Match iPad app on my personal iPad and then "export" and "share" the sorts with the Butterflies.  (The Butterflies "import" the sort into the Move and Match app installed on each of the student iPads).

The Move and Match app is a great app for creating customized activities for instruction, guided application, and/or independent application across the curriculum.

word sort "mirrored" on the SMARTBoard

Butterflies complete a word sort on the Move and Match iPad app

a first grader completes a sound sort
-on the Move and Match iPad app

Word Their Way word sorts on the iPad

Using the Corkulous Pro iPad app, I created word sorts to correlate with Words Their Way word sorts within each spelling stage of development.

I created a "corkboard" for each word sort focus (ex: short vowel word families) with 6 correlated word sorts.

I emailed each of the "corkboards" to the student iPads and imported the corkboards into the Corkulous Pro app on each of the 26 student iPads.

Using Bear's Primary Spelling Inventory, I identified the individual stage of spelling development of each student.

For word sorts supportive of their individual stage of spelling development, the students access the appropriate "corkboard" within the Corkulous Pro app and a specific word sort within the "corkboard".

...digital Words Their Way word sorts on the iPad!

the "initial sound sort" board
with six Words Their Way initial sound picture sorts

"initial sound sort #1" -initial sounds of B-M-R-S
created in Corkulous Pro and mirrored on the SMARTBoard

a first grader completes an initial sound word sort
on the iPad -using the Corkulous Pro iPad app

a first grader self-checks her sound sorts for accuracy
-using the Corkulous Pro iPad app