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learn from my mistake
By Susie

I went out and bought several expensive packs of word-wall words, only to discover that the words that my students needed might not be included. A simple fix to this? Write your own words on the word wall. No $ involved!

Here's
what I'd do (and will do next year): I'm going to write the words in different colors depending upon parts-of-speech (blue-noun, red-verb, etc.) A way that you could adapt this is to use a different color for each student. Maybe the children could pick their favorite color for their word-wall words. If you have many students, color-coding can still work along with your reading

groups...the color can correspond to a level, so your low kids can work on reading and writing with the purple words, while the higher kids can work on the red words. You can put all words on the same board so all kids can use them.

Another idea is a portable word wall. You can customize this for each child. Do this in a file folder.

No matter what, only give the students a few words a week (depending upon ability).
Hope that this is helpful!