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Two Word Walls
By brett158

This year I am trying something a little bit different. I am going to have two "word walls".

Word Wall 1- This word wall will be called "Glue Words". This is where we will put our sight words (I use Fry's Instant
Word Lists). I teach the students that these are the words that Glue together the sentence so we must memorize them. Each of the words are on Glue bottles that I made out of construction paper.

Word Wall 2- This word wall will be for word Families. I am calling it Chunk Words. I am going to have each of the short vowels on the wall. Underneath the corresponding short vowel

I will introduce the word families as we learn them. ALSO, each word family will have an environmental print object to go with it. For example underneath the short vowel a will be -at (on a piece of cheese made from construction paper....chunk of cheese!). This piece of cheese will be attached to a KIT KAT wrapper with the at underlined with permanent marker. Then as a class we will come up with at words and our list will be posted underneath.

I hope that makes sense. In the past I had used the commercial word walls and I just found I wasnt using them enough and neither were the kids. This way I can pick the words they need to know and it will correlate directly with our lessons!!