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LetвЂ™s get going so perhaps you can find some new sorting ideas that youвЂ™re excited to implement! 9 TYPES OF WORD SORTS FOR WORD STUDY

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Read my full disclosureВ here.)ДЄnd, itвЂ™s good to know that my students have a marble notebook for housing their word study work. ( As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases through affiliate links.

The Words Their Way Word Sort Books, (here on Amazon) contain printable sorts for each word list + helpful teacher notes. I created a list of word sorts that target different skills and decided that a choice board was the best way to implement word sorting into our routines.ДЇinally, I'm on board! (And, EEEK! CouldnвЂ™t be more in love with the choice boards and activities!)ДЇYI, I use the Words Their Way word sort books as my go-to for differentiated word lists. Well, this past year, I realized that word sorting could be a meaningful part of students' word study scheduleВ AND that word sorting activities can be varied to meet students' different spelling and language needs. In my defense, I was convinced that word sorting was only really necessary for students at the lowest spelling levels and we typically completed word sorting activities together in our small group meetings. One more observation.ConfessionвЂ¦for years, I ignored word sorting as a viable activity to implement into my 4th and 5th graders' word study routine.В I mean, my students sorted words, but we didnвЂ™t really GO DEEP with that activity in our routine.

Will Nediger doesn't like AN I as an answer, but for me, the cute clue at 78-Across saves it.

Activist Ayб»Ќ Tometi has a dot under the б»Ќ in her first name.

Is REBLOG at 96-Down a word? Apparently so.

_ particle at 104-Across is just a way to clue a random Greek letter.

The L-BOMB at 26-Across refers to saying, 'I love you.' Go for it!.

Today's theme is phrases about repeating things that repeat a key word from earlier in the grid. You can get a sense for a constructor's individualism by looking at the words they debuted and their word cloud. Knowing who wrote the puzzle helps me enjoy it more, and knowing their proclivities can make me a better solver. Some styles and some constructors will resonate more with you. His New Yorker crosswords bear his personal mark too.

Will Nediger has a particular style, and it's independent of venue. (Why not screenwriters? Long story.) I wanted to help crossword solvers have that same connection with the geniuses behind the grids. Sophisticated filmgoers follow their favorite directors. When you read novels, you're aware of the authors and you seek them out. As I worked through past puzzles, I discovered that many of the ones I most enjoyed were by the same constructor, a medical doctor in San Francisco named Manny Nosowsky.

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At the time, The Times made their crossword archive back to 1996 available in digital format, so it was easy to extract clues and answers, and analyze them. The mission statement for XWord Info - to celebrate NYT crosswords and the people who make them - came from an early observation I made in 2007 when I was first experimenting with what I could learn from NYT puzzle data.