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What is a Word Wall?
Here is an official definition from Wikipedia. Here is another article about word walls. Basically it is a place to display words a child has learned or is learning. We use ours for high frequency words in Kindergarten, only putting up words as they are learned.
We use a tri-fold foam board {ours was $10 from Target} for our Word Wall, it looks like this…
For the letters I found these Elmer’s sticky ABCs…
They were wonderful because I could move them around until I had the exact placement and then I glued them down with a glue stick.
For the words, I am using the cards from the You Can Read printables, printed on cardstock and laminated.
They are hooked to the board using tiny Velcro dots, which I bought in bulk from here. I used velcro so we can take the words off at any times to play games and review.
After Krash has a good knowledge of the word, we add it to the word wall, and review often. Review is especially important as the list of words grows.
I do not put word family words on this board {cat, mat, rat, sat, etc.}, just his basic sight words that I want him to be able to identify without sounding out, just by sight.
In the past I have had our word wall up on our actual wall, similar to how I did it in the classroom. You can see my post about when I transitioned to portable word walls. I like the idea of it being up on the main wall, but I like the idea of being able to better interact with the words using the portable word wall.
Do you have a word wall in your homeschool classroom? If you have a post showing it, please leave a comment with the link so we can check it out!
