Interactive word wall

Word walls are amazing and I think every classroom should have one. However, I completely understand that they aren’t the easiest thing to put together. They take up so much space and what happens if you run out of room? Here are four reasons why you NEED a portable and interactive word wall in your kindergarten, first grade, second grade, and upper elementary classroom.

Fried Word Wall! Part of my interactive word wall for my 7th grade Language Arts class. They LOVE it. The bottom "I'm Lovin' It" container is for them to come up with any to add to the wall. (Adapted from: http://bulletinboardideas.org/2945/mcdonalds-inspired-interactive-word-wall/)

Interactive word wall where kids can use "colorful words" in their writing.

Word walls are really popular in elementary classrooms. I had a traditional word wall for a few years, like the one below. It's supposed to help with spelling, but I soon realized that nobody used it. So a few years ago I freed up that wall for something more useful. Traditional word wall Then, in November, I read an article in Science and Children called "Interactive Word Walls" by Julie Jackson and Rose Narvaez. It's not a great title, but it came with an awesome picture: I was inspired…

Have you heard of the interactive word wall? The one that can save your time and energy and make vocabulary learning more effective?

Tons of ideas for word walls in the classroom including DIY ideas, interactive, creative and easy ideas for elementary school.

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Word wall center children read the word to a partner, then build the word with the magnet letters. This is made with a large oil drip pan from an auto parts store:)

If you teach elementary students, you probably have a word wall, but a word wall doesn't meet the needs of all students. I'm sharing the reasons I stopped using a word wall and what I do instead in this post. Your second-grade and third-grade students may have more writing success with word wall alternatives like personal student dictionaries. Grab free differentiated word lists and read about the word wall alternatives that my 2nd and 3rd-grade class loved! #wordwall #studentdictionary

Kindergarten Word Wall: make it interactive by placing it lower and use magnetic tape on ribbon. Idea brought to you by Krazy Kats in Kinder on TPT!

Interactive Word Wall

Is your Word Wall just taking up space? Are you concerned that your Word Wall decor is simply that...decor? The Interactive PHONICS word wall is a trending new approach to Word Wall activities in the primary grades. Word Wall activities are countless with this approach to phonics instruction. Check it out, your kindergarten, first grade and second grade students will flourish with interaction with your Word Wall ideas. #wordwall #firstgrade #secondgrade #literacy #phonics

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Have you ever wondered about the difference between a Word Wall and a Sound Wall in the elementary classroom. This blog post dives into the details on both. Find out what each is and how you can use both of these tools to help your students. Both a word wall and sound wall can help your students improve their phonics skills and reading abilities. A word wall can also help improve vocabulary, spelling and writing. Head over and read this blog post for all of the details.

Quick and fun way to get vocabulary in! I put the mystery word in the blue envelope with just the first letter showing. Each day I add a new clue, a synonym, an antonym, examples or using it in a sentence and the definition. Each day the kids can guess what the word is!

Who? What? When? Why? Where? How? Word Wall

Hi friends! There has been a LOT of buzz about switching from word walls to sound walls this year. I am so happy to be hearing all of the buzz and seeing teachers diving into learning a "new" way of teaching reading. I say "new" because the research has been around for years!! Finally, the switch is happening. Let's talk about what a sound wall is and the benefits of a sound wall versus a word wall. Sound Wall vs. Word WallTo be 100% honest, I never had a word wall in my classroom. Since I…

Hey y'all!!! We wanted to share with you what to us is one of the key elements to a successful dual language classroom: yes, we are talking about interactive word walls. Year after year, we see our learner's exceed our expectations when it comes to building meaningful sentences and even stories using our interactive word wall. Our students use word walls to sort words by initial or ending sounds, by parts of speech, to classify nouns, to divide words in syllables, to complete sentence stems…