Word Wall

V: Methodology








This is a short week so out schedule will be a little bit different. Instead of starting a new book and spelling list, we will just focus on reviewing our word wall words. I had video taped another lesson for my video partner to review. When the library was transfering it to a regular sized video tape, they accidentally taped over my amazing 90 minute lesson. I just had to tape my lesson today.

Today’s Lesson: Word Wall Review
I gathered both of my reading groups today to do a combined word work lesson
1- Introduction, Why word wall is imporant. How it relates to reading and writing.
*These word wall words are very important, so I decided to just focus on those instead of going on to a comprehension lesson.
2- Model reading words. Students recite/repeat
* I started by modeling/reading our words, then I had the student repeat the words after me.
3- Kinethetic Words. Clap, Marshmallow Clap, Disco Words, Basketball Clap
*After reciting the words we used kinethetic movement to kept connect the words to our body movement. We marshmallow clapped the word wall words and then 'discoed' them. We also basketball clapped our words. This was also a good way to get the blood flowing and the brains a little more alert.
4- Color Trace (Vowels=red, Consonants=Black)
* We traced our words in black and red crayon. The vowels were red and the consonants were black.
5- Word Shape, Models, Guided Practice
*I then modeled how to draw shaped boxes around our letters. The big boxes were for 'big' letter, such as l, t, and h. The little boxes were for e, a, z, etc.
6- Individual Practice: Word Shape worksheet
* The students had a set of words to box and then we hung them up on our pocket chart.
7- Cloze Sentences
* Our next activity was sentences with a missing word, the cloze method.
8- Word Wall Puzzle, cut and paste.
*The student had to figure out which word wall word best fit in the empty space. The students did quite well with this activity.
9- Rainbow Words
*We did not have time for this activity. Our reading time was almost up and then the students were leaving for a lot of our specials.
10- Homework
*There regular Monday homework is to copy their word wall words 2 times each.
11- Assessment
*Their word wall test will be given on Wednesday.


Overall I think it was a wonderful morning. My student did quite well during this longer lesson. I did some new acivities with them, but everyone handled them quite well. It was nice to have a longer time period in which to teach reading. Usually I only have a half of an hour and one simple thing can take the whole time. It is hard to get anything accomplished in only a half an hour.