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This year I tried something new with my 1st grade word wall. Instead of organizing my High Frequency Words by beginning sound, my team and I grouped them by Phonics skill. We used Orthographic mapping with our students to really analyze each word. We identified those words that followed taught phonics patterns and grouped them together. We also marked words as temporarily irregular if they had a phonics skill we hadn't learned yet and then moved them to the correct area once the skill was taught. The permanently irregular words are ones that are highly irregular or feature phonics patterns not taught in 1st grade. My students got so much more use out of the Word Wall this way and it reinforced our targeted phonics skills.

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This is my empty word wall, I will begin the year with a few kindergarten words and then add around 5 new words each week. We review them many times throughout each week.

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This is a picture of my word wall thru mid March. Each week we add 5 new words and put them on the side of the board. These words are in our weekly Nursery Rhyme. The next week we put them under the correct letter and add the new words. I also have a small dry erase board that has the last 2 weeks sight words on it.  They pick 4 words each day to practice writing and saying.  Students first and last names are also on the word wall under the correct letter.  I will probably try to incorporate the read-spell-write routine this year.  I really like the idea of them writing a sentence to go with their words.
They also have a copy of the words their folder. If they have extra time, I encourage them to practice reading their sight words.

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I cannot take a picture in my classroom, but am working on my digital classroom so I'll post that instead. I hang pages on my board. We have a read, spell, write routine each week. I write the words on the correct page while the children write it on their paper. I keep the color and number words up all the time. We will also add those harder ones (was, saw, could, would. should, here, where, there...) to a poster so we make sure to look carefully at those.

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This is from the beginning of last year. I put all of the student names in a different color than high frequency/ sight words. This is a flannel bulletin board- I put velcro on the back of all the words so the words can be removed to take to their seats for writing. This is the front of my room where my carpet area is so it's a focal point. I don't put the words up until they are introduced.

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This was my word wall before the start of the school year last year. I put our “red words” on it (words that can’t be sounded out phonetically), as well as a few other words they always struggle to spell correctly. This year I’d like to add vocabulary words that go with our reading text.

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This is an old word wall. However, I will put them up as we introduce them, as part of the lesson. That way maybe I won't get so far behind.