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Becky Parker
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Posted: June 05 2009 at 5:57am \| IP Logged

I was reading about how "Word Walls" are often used in classrooms and I'm wondering if something like this would help my ds. I have a little wall space that's begging for a job!

Actually, while I primarily teach my kids to read using phonetics, I have a son that's very visual and I'm wondering if the word wall thing might help him. I notice he naturally looks at the shape of words, which is rather foreign to me, but apparently it's an effective approach for some. Using a word wall with the words cut out so their shape is obvious might be helpful. Does anybody know what I am talking about? I thought of a mini-wordwall since I'm not teaching a whole class of kids - just a few. Just thinking out loud I guess, but I'm interested in your thoughts and opinions on this.

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Posted: June 05 2009 at 2:54pm \| IP Logged

I have done this with my visual kiddos.
I dont "teach" with it just post it.

I often do it near the Season/science tables and post words related to that. ie in the summer words might be sprinkler, pool, camp, July, fireworks, etc... sometimes with clip art/stickers for clues.

or we have done color words printed out in those colors.

This has reduced the "how do you spell...?" quite a bit.

Another fun thing has been to print out words and pics on magnet paper for the fridge -his has been a good matching type game.

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Posted: June 08 2009 at 5:42pm \| IP Logged

I was just thinking about word walls today. They intrigue me but to just put the words on the a wall seems too public schoolish for me. I have been trying to think of ways to use the words in a more useful manner.

We have started doing unit studies this year so the few times that I have made a word wall, i make the words go with our unit. For our rainforest unit, we used the rainforest words on the wall to put into alphabetical order.

We are doing an ocean unit right now. I have been brainstorming about what we can do with the words if we made a wall. Some ideas that have come to my brain as I have been typing is to use the words in sentences for the kids to write out or classify the words into parts of speech. You could also make a reading game out of the words but the logistics of that elude me at the moment.

Becky, this rambling probably doesn't help you but it has sparked some ideas for me, so thank you for this post.

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Posted: June 08 2009 at 6:21pm \| IP Logged

May still be too public schoolish (since it was done in a public school

), but we used our Word Wall as a reference. Or a game - who can make a story from Word Wall words, write a WW word in your journal and decorate.

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