During Word Work, a teacher will guide his/her student through multi-sensory activities for manipulating, saying, and writing words and individual sounds in words.

How do these lessons compare to traditional word study?

The TRI Word Work strategies:

• integrate multiple early reading skills in each strategy, rather than breaking skills into isolated lessons;
• incorporate early sound-symbol and phonemic awareness instruction both within the context of words;
• employ multi-sensory student actions with an emphasis on letter sounds rather than letter names, which more efficiently supports decoding development;
• support the teacher's continual feedback, respsonding to each s tudent's responses to fine-tune the instructional match.