Warren Consolidated Schools has chosen a new word study (phonics, vocabulary, spelling) program called Words Their Way. The main benefit of Words Their Way is that it differentiates instruction allowing each child to work at their appropriate instructional level. Students will be given an initial spelling inventory to help guide teachers in placing each student into a group of words. Word work in our classroom will include sorting our words into categories, and noticing similarities and differences between words that sound alike. Words Their Way focuses less on memorization and more on allowing students to work with the words during word sorts to give them the chance to learn the spelling pattern.