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3 thoughts on “Word Walls”
I printed out a darling word wall last yr, each spanish word in a speech bubble in black, underlined and with the English right below it in red. I posted at first the words we were using most (but since I teach grades 1-4 it was a lot) and soon after the words became background noise, like old mail on my entry bench. Occasionally I’d walk over and point to a new word- or put a star next to it! And sometimes I saw the kids scanning for it. Since my Ss don’t do free writes, they didn’t need them for that..long story short, I started this year without the word wall, and I don’t think the Ss are any worse for the wear. So no word wall for me this time.
I do see lots of word lists in Tina’s classroom and they look very practical and helpful, especially since she teaches 2 languages. They are lists of adjectives for OWI, transition words(?), and other key words to keep the L2 flow, so they’re different in content and purpose from a word wall, (right Tina?)
I had this idea of writing down question words for myself in case of getting stuck in an invisibles (or matava script) story
This year I did sort of an emergent word wall. I would pick a few of the words/phrases that came up in our stories that kids understood in general. I didn’t expect them to know them but if they needed something on a free write a ton of my kids would glance up at it and use them in their writing when they got stuck. But it wasn’t necessary the only really nice thing about it was for me during WCTG I knew I would stay in blinds because those were only the “big” words from what we had some in class. Also it was good for playing Quizlet live I just kept a growing list of words and they would play rounds from that. Made my life easier.