Classroom vocabulary wall

How to implement a vocabulary word wall in your classroom

If you have been trying to find some new teacher tips and tricks on building vocabulary, you have come to the right place. I am sharing my 5 teacher tips for building vocabulary activities. These vocabulary activities for elementary are easy to implement during literacy small group, morning work, and literacy centers. All you need to do is build word walls in the classroom or anchor chart display wall, early elementary read alouds, rich conversations, and more!

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

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.

Having a wide vocabulary is a huge part of what helps students to be successful in both reading comprehension and writing. This is why vocabulary is one of the National Reading Panel’s five core elements

There are a couple of things I know about grammar and the elementary school classroom. One, it is so important to help students understand the mechanics of good writing but two, the instruction of grammar can be pretty dry. I always add a fun sentence that’s ready to go on the first day of ... Read More about Interactive Language Wall

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