Sasha from TheAutismHelper.com shows picture-based word sorts for initial consonants and short vowels, laminated and stored in labeled baggies. The collection includes sequential sorts, common mix-up sorts like BP reversals and vowel pairs, plus assessment worksheets. Works for reading centers, homework, small-group instruction, and independent work.
Hi, this is Sasha from TheAutismHelper.com, and this is a product preview of Initial Consonant and Short Vowel Word Sorts for Early Childhood. So I love, love, love word sorts. I already use them a lot in my classroom, and I decided to make a really big set of Initial Consonant and Short Vowel Sorts because that's where a lot of my students are really struggling. So I'm gonna go through and show you exactly what's in this set and how to use it to be most effective for your students. So I give some pretty lengthy descriptions of— loading a minute— of how and why to use these word sorts and why they're effective and also how to set them up. So I store each word sort in a baggie. So with each set, I give you a label for the baggie and as well as kind of a cheat sheet for the words that are in there. These word sorts are picture word sorts, so students can't fly through these and just put all the words that they see that start with A in one set or all the words that have the first letter as B. They need to really take the time and think about which each picture is and sort them under the correct category. I love picture word sorts for this reason because there's really no cheating. They have to think about each answer. So when you set up each word sort, you'll laminate the entire page, cut out the pieces, and this label will go on the baggie, and this also one will go on the baggie and has all of the names of the pictures. Most of the pictures are very, very self-explanatory, but when you get into the X or or Y, some of the trickier letters, I just wanna make sure that you know. It's easy as a teacher to like get caught up and not realize which picture is what. So here's a little guide for you. So that's how these are set up. So included in this set are sequential sorts and common mix-up sorts. So the sequential sorts are 3 to 4 letters and go obviously in order. So A through D, E through F, I through L, et cetera. Also, there are common mix-up sorts. So I included letters that are commonly mistake— mistaken, as well as ones that have similar sounds. So putting vowels together, the BP reversals, MNW. So letters that are commonly mixed up. So you might want to start with sequential sorts, and then when the kids have fully mastered those, move on to the common mix-up. Following the initial consonant sorts, there are short vowel sorts. So the short vowel sorts combine the words that have short vowel sounds and Scroll through and show these. And there are A's and E's, I's and E's, O's and U's. So those just sort between two different vowels. And you can also combine these, you can put them all together, it's really up to you. Um, the great thing about this set, I don't know about you, but I'm really short on ink this year, so I have black line versions of all of these as well. So just pay close attention to when you're printing to make sure you're not printing doubles, that you print whether you want the color or the black and white version. So all these have both the color and black and white version of each sort. Um, in addition to this, I added a worksheet that I love to use for assessment. So I like to use these in reading centers, for homework, for independent time, things like that. So with this worksheet, students have to write in the words themselves, so you can really assess whether they did the sort correctly and kind of check in and be able to know what they're doing. This is a great extension activity also if you're doing this as small group instruction. You You can have kids complete this on their own independently. So yes, there's all the different colored sorts, black line for both sequential and mix-up, and then the short vowel. These are just such great time savers to have. They're great for transition time, in between activities. There's just a lot of uses for these. I really find myself gravitating towards word sorts all the time for all different types of instructional purposes. Again, this was a product preview of Initial Consonant and Short Vowel Word Sorts by theautismhelper.com.
