Personal word wall

Using personal word walls is a great way to engage students during writing time. Follow these steps to learn how to make personal word wall folders that you can differentiate for your students. Your students will love getting to use the names of important people and places in their writing.

Strategies for making an effective word wall students will refer to when spelling and writing.

Word walls are an important tool that students use to work independently during writing time. Help your students get more out of writing workshop by using a personal word wall folder. No matter if your students are writing independently or conferring with the teacher, they will always have the tools that they need to work independently.

Helllooooo! Yes, I am still alive. Yes, I am BUSY, BUSY, BUSY. But yes, I am still here! I think about this little old blog often but lately it has had to fall to the bottom of my priority list. :( I'm not back to the same capacity as before when I regularly blogged, but I hope to at least have new resources to share and blog posts once or twice a month. :D Let's talk ten-frames. Do you know what a ten-frame is? Do you use ten-frames in your classroom? If you teach math in the primary…

Personal student dictionaries, or word books, are of great value in 1st to 6th-grade classrooms. Having a bank of sight words and commonly used words available and a place for students to record personally-relevant words is more meaningful than a word wall. Personal dictionaries can meet the needs of all students where a word wall may not. Take a look at 4 reasons for using personal student dictionaries in your classroom, and grab a free resource in this post!

A Word Wall Printable Template provides you with an easy to use layout for displaying new vocabulary, boosting literacy and language development in your classroom or study area..

Using personal word walls is a great way to engage students during writing time. Follow these steps to learn how to make personal word walls that you can differentiate for your students. Your students will love getting to use the names of important people and places in their writing.

Hi friends! Anyone else as exhausted as I am? This makes week one of school (with the students) and I already can't wait for Friday. At 3 pm, that is. I'm already dreaming of sleeping in Saturday morning then enjoying a nice workout and breakfast in my pjs. The first couple days of routines/procedures/routine/procedures over and over is tiring. But you all know this already! ;) I wanted to share with you all a little (FREE) something I'm using in my class this year. I actually used it last…

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.