Somebody asked me what I have up on my walls. Not much. I once had many posters up and slowly figured out that they don’t work. The extreme nut on too many posters was a teacher at East High who had just about every single inch of his wall covered with verb conjugations of all kinds. Thousands and thousands of words. Looked impressive I guess. Anyway, here’s what I have:
These conjunctions in one poster:
- first
- next
- after
- then
- so
- then
- later
- now
- in the morning
- in the afternoon
- in the evening
- at that point
- suddenly
- until
- and
- also
- again
- still
- therefore
Those seem to suffice for my second year classes when they write. The main thing is that, without those conjunctions, the kids can’t write a story, they can only write sentences, so they are a very important part of my walls.
Also, I use prepositions. These are the ones that I teach using hand signals during stories:
- on
- under
- in
- in front of behind
- next to
- far
- close
- far very close
- in back of
- across from
- above
- under
- against
- with
- together
The prepositions poster helps a little but in’t that important because the kids kind of know them from stories.
So that is two posters. I also have the “Little Words” poster up – it helps them to write. There is also the Word Wall and the Question Words. All three of those are on the posters page of this site: https://benslavic.com/tprs-posters.html
That’s all I use. Of course, if I do the Wall Zoo in the fall, that would be another one.