| Place copies of key words in the pockets | A few examples are listed below |
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| A Chunking Wall helps developing readers and writers learn to use spelling patterns to read and write new words | Organize, Organize, Organize A well-run, well-used word wall comes down to one word: Ownership |
The problem is, it allows you to make matches then at the end when there is one pair of words left.
10| Some of the games can be challenging | And why can't you just back up, rather than having to start over? By the end of the year, your students have walls of words they have learned, reviewed, and used |
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| Use Word Wall words you've already targeted, for making word ladders, word sorts, and word hunts | Keep going back to the words |
In whole group lessons, I teach each word.
| High-frequency words — those words that beginning readers and writers need to know "by heart," and that do not always have predictable spelling patterns — account for about half of the words we read and write | As a reading specialist, I simply fold one Word Wall down and put up another when a new student group arrives |
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| First, we talk about how the organization helps us know how to find things | What new word surprised you this week? For me, a few of them have been hard, because there have been words that I never would have thought would match with any of the other words available |
If you love crossword, word search, word grid, or hangman, you will love this new word association game.
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