a couple of thoughts

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a couple of thoughts
By Julianne

A teacher at our building hangs ribbons from the ceiling and clips her words onto the ribbons with clothespins. If you can hang something from the ceiling that might be a choice for you. Just hang it against a wall (as
opposed to ON the wall). Or you could use the same idea and hang the ribbons at the bottom of your one bulletin board so the word wall is below the board. Not as user friendly for you, but still within reach for your students. You might be able to tape the word wall to a large window or a series of windows. We have used the fronts of a bank of cupboards as a word wall, too. Or maybe

use the back of a storage cupboard... time to get creative, huh?

I haven't seen anything to say that alphabetizing vertically will cause trouble. I can see where you're going there, but kids are faced with these kinds of reading challenges everywhere. It's probably more important that you have a word wall at all, even if it has to be a bit unorthodox.