WORD Walls
I'm a Social Studies Teacher and I have several word walls in my room. Aside from an American History wall, I also have the following: one is my area for words students are always asking to spell, which includes mostly sight words. My primary word wall is the one with the TROPHY - on it are all the words of which I label "awared winning tier-2 words taht comes from read alouds, shared reading, conversations, etc. I also have listedn "super synonyms", which are to help my students discover a more robust vocabularly of wrods for commonly-used words. FOr this, my students suggest the word and we use a thesaurus to discover and list alternatives. Finally, on our window in the back of the classroom are the "boring" or "dead words" or most commonly-used words we are either uing less of or not at all.