Feature Guide

Feature Guide

What is it?

Feature guides are essentially "grading" rubrics for spelling inventories that focus on the aspects of words, such as beginning sounds, vowel sounds, suffixes, etc. Many can be found in the Words Their Way book.

(https://www.secondstorywindow.net/a-teachers-guide-to-words-their-way/)

Why is it important?

Feature guides are a well oiled machine that break down what a student excelled and struggled at within their spelling inventories. Through the categorization of different word aspects in the form of columns, a teacher can directly see and determine what developmental spelling stages their students are at and what they as a teacher need to focus more on teaching in the classroom in terms of phonics instruction.