Word Walls are an important tool to use in the classroom because it provides students with a place where high-frequency words are displayed and easily seen to help students with different types of reading and writing activities. In lower elementary, most word walls are used to help students that are learning to read and write. In upper grades word walls and be used for concepts and topics that the students are learning about, for example, in Science class a teacher might have a word wall for words associated with the weather.
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I do plan on using a word wall in my classroom because I have seen them used in positive ways for the students. For example, in one of my host classrooms, the teacher would get excited causing the students too as well when she got to add another word to the wall. I also think word walls can be used at the beginning of the year to introduce the names of the students and the teacher, so they have a chance to see what different names look like. The kind of word wall that I would like is one where the words are velcro and can be taken off and added to easy. This would be an adaptable word wall where I can use it when I'm doing different themes in my classroom.
Yes! I love the interactive word walls. I haven't been in any elementary classrooms so I am not sure what they really look like (I was able to do my lower level observations in my own classroom). I think using it for different themes would be fun and also helpful to the students!
ReplyDeleteI totally agree with you that the students get excited when adding a new word to the word walls! Yes! In the classroom I work in this year, a pre-k classroom, we used it to introduce the names of students and they loved that their names were part of the word wall as well! I love the Velcro word wall as well! I believe it is important for the students to be able to look up and see the words but also if they need to take the word to their desk then they have that option. I believe that they will be used more this way. Laminating the words and then putting Velcro on so can use them year after year if still in the same grade.
ReplyDeleteLike anything, YOUR enthusiasm about a item will convey to the students how they are supposed to react to it! I am really loving these interactive word walls!
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