![]() *Students take ownership of their vocabulary instruction. *Students love being able to look at this wall and add words to their writing (I always put a huge smiley face when I see a word wall word used in student writing). My students getting way too into the fly swat game □ *Word Walls set the atmosphere for easy, no-prep games to add fun to your classroom. I try to get the same amount of words from each class to be fair. I often teach a variety of grades (10th-12th), but have never had an issue with using the same list for all classes. I personally narrow these down to the top 10 that I see most often in literature and in life. I repeat this for all 3 classes (I’m on a block schedule) and end up with around 15-20 great words and sentences from YA books. I will ask the students with the best words to go up to my computer and type in their word, part of speech, sentence, and definition. As I’m walking and checking work, I keep students busy by practicing roots words or reviewing their former words (more on this in a minute). It is on this day that I walk around the room and pick out the best of the best words. Daily Grammar Practice ( See how I incorporate music into my grammar program here: link)īy finding a new word each day, they will end up with 5 new words each Monday. If you would like this strategy, plus more vocabulary strategies for classroom OneNote, follow my OneNote Pinterest Board and download my free vocabulary notebook found in my collection!ģ. Since I’m in a 1:1 classroom, they do this digitally in their Classroom OneNote Notebooks. Then, I give them around 3 minutes to fill out their Frayer boxes on the word they found. They write this word and sentence down immediately then continue reading. It settles a class down and sets the vibe for the remaining portion of the class.ĭuring these 5-10 minutes of reading time, students are to find ONE word that they don’t know, find challenging, or like the sound of while reading. If you save it for last, students will be more likely to talk and not read.ģ. I express that free-choice reading is SO important in helping students with many aspects of their personal and student life that it deserves to be first in my class.Ģ. I put this time at the BEGINNING of the class for several reasons.ġ. I have 90-minute classes, so I’m able to give my students 8-10 minutes of free reading time each day. ![]() I’ve been using a Word Wall with my high school students for 9 years now, and the results have been incredible.
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