This paper presents two case studies that illustrate the multiple uses of word sorts, a word study phonics technique. Case study children were Sara, a second grader, who had difficulty with reading basic words and John, a third grader, who had difficulty with spelling basic words. Multiple baseline designs were employed to study the effects of word sorts across sets of words for helping Sara improve and maintain her word recognition performance and helping John improve and maintain his spelling performance. Findings revealed that word sorts helped Sara and John improve on their basic literacy performance in contrast to their performance during baseline conditions before word sorts were implemented. These case studies illustrate that the use of word sorts serves multiple purposes as it may be implemented to teach reading as well as spelling skills.