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This is our grade three math word wall and it's broken down into the five strands of math. We have the strands listed at the bottom for each strand. Every week we introduce five new math words. We treat them like word wall words.

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One of the opportunities that the first graders have in class when they're doing the Writer's Workshop and their editing for spelling is to look up here at the Heart Word Chart. So the expectation is that these are words that they know by heart. They're not written when the students come in September, it's blank, and as the words come up, it gives an opportunity for mini-lessons, first sounds, blending sounds, last sounds, words that are familiar, are, our, of, for, things that are easily mixed up in reading and in writing. And again, these are all words that the students know they need to know by heart, they don't think about anymore, they're just able to write them. So when they're during the Daily 5 rotation, they're at Word Work, particularly at the beginning of the year these are some of the words that they may choose to work on.

The way that we do a Word Wall in this classroom is an interactive approach, when the students enter at the beginning of the school year the wall is bare, there aren't any words that we can't spell. But as they come up the students then put them on the Word Wall. I select the words that go up here, the students don't have that choice, but what they do do for me is take the Word Wall Kit, print the correct spelling of the word onto a strip of paper that has Velcro on the back, check with me, which is extremely important before the word goes up onto the wall, and then it becomes part of our classroom dictionary.

At the end of that rotation of Daily 5, we will introduce whatever new words have gone up, so then the whole class is familiar with what other sources of information they have in the room. There are two reasons I like it. One is that it's low, so the students see it quite often, and it's readily accessible to them and they do use it often. When they're in their editing phase of any written activity in the classroom, you will see them come up to the Word Wall, take it off the Velcro strip, back to their desks, edit the word correctly, and then return it to the Word Wall. Again, I like the fact that it's at their eye level so when they're sitting at the carpet or they're walking through the classroom they see it. I like it's in their printing, so they have again ownership over it, and I do like the opportunity they have to remove it from the wall and use it at their desks.

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Sight word wall/Math word wall

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Low enough for students to point to or find words.

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This is my "Word Wall" for my split first and second grade class, and there's two very important features about this "Word Wall", the first one being that it's interactive.

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With the support of The Melissa Institute this website was developed by university-based literacy experts and school-based practitioners - literacy specialists, classroom teachers as well as district and school administrators. The Balanced Literacy Diet framework is designed to provide a comprehensive multifaceted internet resource to support the development of research-informed reading and writing instruction in schools.