Choose any and/or all walls of your classroom for all of the Keywords you use for your topics of discussion.
This activity should be a regimented part of daily activity. It can be used as part of a rewards system, and is especially effective on hyperactive students, or those with attention deficit disorder. Focus is regained on the task at hand.
A child with a lot of energy will like the importance of the job, and it grows with your school year.
1. Write down daily keywords that pertain to your subject lesson.
2. Have a selected student write down the word on sentence strips, and paste them on a designated word wall area.
3. Make sure they understand that the words need to be spelled correctly, and legible.
This is especially effective, if you review the words on a daily basis, and make it a game. See who could guess what word you or a student is pointing to This is especially effective for use in journal writing which has been proven by experts in the field of education, to improve reading, writing, and spelling skills.
When doing journal writing, either you give the student a subject to write about, or if you want, they may choose their own subject matter that they want to write about. Since a word rich classroom, with words all over the walls are there, the children are allowed to look around the room to help them in writing their journal stories. Also, by seeing these words constantly, they become easily embedded in their memory. It is ever changing, and will become quite crowded as the school year progresses.
Having these words all around the room, surrounding the classroom, and encouraging the children to look at them has effectively worked in journal writing, reading, writing, and spelling.
It works and you can make it fun!
Upper administration likes the effect it has on the students involvement.
Sometimes if you give this re enforcing task to a hard to manage child, you see immediate effects on their self esteem.
Some variations is a flowdrawing of word progression, and a word tree. These can be fun to create, as the words could be cut out in geometric shapes for math, or in the shape of leaves for the branches of the tree.
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