Word Wall

Alright, thinking towards next year as I continue to work away this year with the computers. The word wall is going really well. I love that the kids (most of them) are doing such an amazing job spelling and reading the new word wall words. They are tricky words but my kids really seem to be applying their knowledge of the words and are doing a better job reading them too because they are forced to type them into sentences. I have a few lower students who definitely need the assistance but most of the kids are able to type the words right in and then apply them to sentences.

This is great for my ELL students! Today one of my ELLs wrote "I am taking the long cut." The word wall word was long. She explained that it was like short cut but long cut. This opened up the dialog so that she knew and now understood we have such things as short cuts but not long cuts.

Next year I am thinking a consistent way to do them each day would be great! This year I am having students do this work in Key note which I really like so far.

Monday: introduce new word wall words-clap, chant, cheer them (students can type in the word after clap-chant-cheering it

Tuesday: students put the word into a sentence

Wednesday: Wacky Wednesday students clap, chant cheer the words in wacky ways (students underline the word wall word in their already written sentence.)

Thursday: Students make rhyming words (if the word wall word is how then I can spell now cow plow ect-give students time to find pictures as well to go with the words.

Friday: word wall game (as class-kagan style)

Today for the first time when students were finished they were able to work on word wall games or lexia. this worked great. I will definitely do this again. students who finished their work were able to do this and it was great. Not busy work but on their level and they loved it! It was quiet in the room! :)

This is definitely on all kids levels as well because the higher kids were making multiple sentences while my lower students were making short sentences.

Differentiation for ELLs...I could give them sentence frames.